Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the service copy of the summons has been properly served the principal summons with details of the execution of service must be returned to the court before the return day . |
| 2 | This means that we are effectively using the two-phase method , except that , where a choice of variable to enter the basis occurs in Phase I ( and such occurrences are very common ) , the choice is resolved by the true objective function . |
| 3 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
| 4 | When the process has been successfully completed the following message will appear : |
| 5 | Even those who are successful are rarely accorded the full credit given to their Japanese counterparts . |
| 6 | The conceptual basis of judicial review , that the courts are thereby enforcing the legislative will by ensuring that the authority remains within the limits of its assigned area , has never provided any sure guide as to the appropriate scope for review . |
| 7 | The motel weekends are slowly changing the basic bloodstock of the parliamentary party . |
| 8 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 9 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 10 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 11 | The swans started to build their nest several weeks ago and everyone at the factory had been eagerly awaiting the big day . |
| 12 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 13 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
| 14 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 15 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 16 | are all doing a futile side-stroke . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like a holiday camp sometimes and we are all having a good time . |
| 18 | Mum and dad are eagerly awaiting the new arrival , as are nine-year-old Jessica , John , seven , and four-year-old James . |
| 19 | The High Court , the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal are together called the Supreme Court . |
| 20 | However , the grain of this behavioural notation is unbelievably coarse and one is often surprised by the extent to which two performances of the same written utterance can differ — even when the actors in question are apparently following the same instruction with respect to intonation , facial expression or manual gesture . |
| 21 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 22 | Shop around for a reasonable estimate , or hire a van and the services of some friends and do it yourself , it is much cheaper , and worth while if you are only moving a short distance . |
| 23 | I am sure that you are only feeling a young girl 's modest misgivings at the approach of marriage . |
| 24 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |
| 25 | The band are literally raising the ageing singer 's career from the ashes . |
| 26 | But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project . |
| 27 | Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board . |
| 28 | They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album . |
| 29 | Some people worry that feeding the birds is somehow unnatural , but gardens are No more unnatural than much of the British landscape , and the birds which visit our gardens are merely demonstrating the natural behaviour of flocking to exploit the sudden abundance of a source of food , whether it 's a heavy infestation of caterpillars or seeds and nuts put out on the lawn . |
| 30 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |