Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I wonder why the right people are so rarely asked to help until it 's too late ?
2 It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency .
3 We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education .
4 Data for gall stone recurrence after extra corporeal shock wave dissolution are only now starting to emerge but the initial results showing 11–15% gall stone recurrencerates one to two years after lithotripsy certainly confirm this prediction .
5 On the other hand empiricists are not normally tempted to suppose that there are no strongly verifiable statements at all .
6 Everyone 's so busy looking at it they 're not even bothering to try and get on the roundabout .
7 Thérèse you ca n't mean it , you 're not really going to go and be a nun ?
8 The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation .
9 Families , friends or neighbours and other local people provide the majority of care in response to needs which they are uniquely well placed to identify and respond to .
10 As a focal point for commercial interests in the community , Chambers of Commerce are often ideally placed to initiate and support local crime prevention projects .
11 The layer should be sufficiently well rooted to move or pot up 12–24 months later .
12 Given the lack of precision , it would not be too far fetched to claim that there is an element of post hoc rationalization in some of the definitions of the public service broadcasting notion .
13 Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain .
14 The patients here were obviously not allowed to feel that nobody cared about them .
15 There was a deepening of the shadows and a swirling of something heavy and turgid and foul , and then the creature was gone and the Workshops were once again lit to crimson and the slaves turned back to their tasks .
16 I thought well he 's better off going to nurse and then she 'll get that magnifying glass and have a look .
17 Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives .
18 The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process .
19 A statement from the new pressure group says clubs throughout the Foyle area feel that even with the continuing decline both in Irish stocks and water quality , the Commission has allowed over-fishing by netting to continue and is not adequately funded to deter or prevent poaching and the continued degradation of water quality throughout the system .
20 He might have added another , and for a similar biological reason : the exotic virus from out there which is exquisitely well adapted to infect and destroy terrestrial man .
21 The client is also constantly reminded to study and learn the sensation of tension , to develop awareness in the resting state .
22 Smoking is also significantly related to stroke and the risk increases with the number of cigarettes smoked [ 8 ] .
23 The ratchet , discussed earlier , is nearly always geared to profit and so if the managers take out too much in the early days , they may adversely affect their interests in the medium term .
24 The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation .
25 He is certainly not expected to telephone or to write a letter to the proprietor of the machine .
26 Having denied that she is incompetent , I am certainly not going to concede that the only alternative is to make her a degenerate ; there must be another choice available .
27 I was just not prepared to let that go when I sold Low Birk Hatt because it was my parents ' dream house .
28 And Nicolo had trampled on all of them from day one , and she was damned well going to tell that to him tomorrow morning , after she said goodbye to Anna and …
29 The outgoing Lord Mayor , Ulster Unionist Herbert Ditty , was today anxiously waiting to see if he could hang on to his threatened seat in the Court electoral area .
30 Honour having been saved , I for one was certainly not going to argue but , just for good measure , I hurled a few more insults back at the towering colossus who was marching towards us .
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