Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 2 | The bench he had chosen to sit on was part of the inlet system which housed the vents from which the hot steam was emitted . |
| 3 | I mean , the sort of things we got down are persuasion , motivated to do something , people see things as you see them , changing the way things are done , getting a view point across , solutions accepted , getting other party to accept change , you 've got the words up there . |
| 4 | True , the street he lived in was north of the city centre , but that did n't mean it was in North Oxford . |
| 5 | In the driving seat to replace whoever goes down are London Scottish . |
| 6 | The only thing to go in is wash bags and they go in the small rucksack anyway , erm do you want these pink ones ? |
| 7 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 8 | The land we were walking on is part of the Golden Cap estate owned by the National Trust which runs from Lyme Regis to Eype . |
| 9 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 10 | Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted ; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos . |
| 11 | All she could focus on was Vitor 's touch , on the casual caress which was making an electric awareness dart across her skin . |
| 12 | The only area we disagree on is make-up . |
| 13 | Thus the areas to concentrate on are profitability , stock turnover and financial risk . |
| 14 | Why is a hierarchy of indexes used in IS files rather than a single large index ? |
| 15 | Added in was Rose 's own smell , warm animal washed with lily-of-the-valley soap . |
| 16 | The intervention of outside powers , finally , has obviously been non-internationalist in both motivation and effect , except by pure accident . |
| 17 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 18 | The next person to come in was Bertrand Russell . |
| 19 | Gulls and jaegers especially are opportunists , feeding on insects , fish , small mammals and whatever else is plentiful . |
| 20 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 21 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 22 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 23 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 24 | In the case of Canada , that centre has long been New York ’ . |
| 25 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 26 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 27 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 28 | 11.2 At the same time , the Department recognises that it has long been practice to seek assistance from the police in certain situations , particularly in order to avoid a breach of the peace when carrying out statutory duties which involve the restriction of liberty and removal of persons . |
| 29 | Some in the profession of political commentating would opt for Bagehot as their formative influence , but mine has long been Sir David — a founder of biased Tory journalism . |
| 30 | Of course , en suite has long been de rigueur ( if you 'll pardon my French ) in hotels nationwide . |