Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you spell " existence " as the incorrect " existance " , you could try to understand why — in this case , because there are two suffixes , one " -ence " and another " -ance " , and you have chosen to add the wrong one to " exist " ( the two suffixes are confusingly pronounced basically the same ) . |
| 2 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 3 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 4 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 5 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 6 | Steel shutters barricaded most of the shops and those that were open displayed only a few boxes of tired vegetables and strings of plastic toys . |
| 7 | This is the reason that the ‘ equal-value amendment ’ was passed , which means that a woman seeking equal pay can compare herself with a man doing work of similar value , and not the more stringent condition of a man who is actually doing exactly the same work . |
| 8 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 9 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 10 | Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present . |
| 11 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |