Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 2 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 3 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 4 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
| 5 | And then you 're straight on to the next job . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | Versions for Italy and the Benelux countries are expected to be ready later in the second quarter and a Spanish version in the last half of 1993 , the company said . |
| 8 | He was supposed to be down here on the second part of a double shift . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm usually away by the second try . |
| 11 | I shall want a good start and be up there over the first few fences . |
| 12 | At the same meeting , he said that Novell expects its fourth quarter international revenues to be about even with the third quarter , adding ‘ Europe continues to look spotty . ’ |
| 13 | The earliest surviving portraits are almost exclusively of the first century BC . |
| 14 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 15 | Pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan were closed ; and gas supplies from Russia via Georgia were also down by a third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption . |
| 16 | Some twenty years later , Comden and Green were also behind On the Twentieth Century ( ) , whose book is not really in the same class as Wonderful Town , but which is quite magnificently preposterous . |
| 17 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 18 | Three routes were out forward for the first section and two for the southern section . |
| 19 | He were n't all over the sixth form I 've not got a to live with ! |
| 20 | Rovers were ahead again in the 104th minute when Livingstone put Sherwood in on the byline and when he pulled the ball back £1.2 million Newell could not miss . |
| 21 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 22 | These remarks , as they stand , are sweeping generalisations based upon the narrowest of samples ; nevertheless we know with the wisdom of hindsight that the trends in question were definitely there in the 19th century and would become even more obvious in the 20th — that families would be smaller , and that the survival rate would improve dramatically . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been round there in the last couple of days and they have moved on now . |
| 24 | yeah , anyway I think it 's on again on the fifteenth , so I 've written it down so I do n't forget because he 'll forget |
| 25 | It 's only really in the last two general elections that we have begun to bring fun and excitement into campaigns , to raise people 's enthusiasm to the point where they can let down their reserve a little bit . |
| 26 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 27 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 28 | His fight is not just for the Third World , but for North America and Europe as well . |
| 29 | Although the sing still takes place in July , it is not always on the last Sunday of the month . |
| 30 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |