Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 2 | The inflammation was where there had been only skin and bone before . |
| 3 | It can be separated from O. bidentata by the following characters ; the spinelets of the disk have more points and are more irregular ; the arm spines are highly rugose and the tentacle scale is also rugose and spine-like while that of O. bidentata is small , flat and scale-like . |
| 4 | There are 7 to 8 arm spines , the dorsalmost of which are finely rugose while the ventral are highly rugose and are slightly curved and club shaped . |
| 5 | It gives me great pleasure because people are extremely kind and extremely generous . |
| 6 | It just slows you down so that there are no longer enough hours in the day , and then some things get put off and other things are only half-completed and you 're told you need help — an assistant priest , no less , to concentrate , as the Bishop with his unfailing instinct for the wrong word put it , on ‘ the donkey work ’ ( well , perhaps after all I was only a beast of burden , Father McGiff conceded ) to give you ‘ a chance to relax , take life more easily , think a bit more , pray a bit more , meditate ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You are only human and can not get every decision spot on . |
| 8 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 9 | Labels and name-calling are not life and death matters . |
| 10 | The new replicators are not DNA and they are not clay crystals . |
| 11 | I take out my sketch pad , but the results are not food and I consign it to the ancient lavatory and oblivion on the track . |
| 12 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 13 | ‘ You 're only skin and bone . ’ |
| 14 | They 're only fucking they 're only plastic and shit in n it ? |
| 15 | We 're not Mutt and Jeff . |
| 16 | They 're both lime and lemonade in . |
| 17 | But runners , they take all runners out and they 're out exercise and come in . |
| 18 | Bert , thank you very much indeed , you 're now ticket and subscription |
| 19 | as oh that 's good , I feel that they 're now acid and alkalis , seem to be important , I 've done I 've put a lot of effort into them , maybe just a quick glance at those occasionally to keep up to date . |
| 20 | Coming down , slowing into High Street passing Stoke Newington Church Street and the Samuel Beckett where they 're really crap and like do n't pay you properly oh no |
| 21 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 22 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 23 | ‘ Non-net ’ books , on which the publisher deliberately refrains from imposing a ‘ net ’ price , and which are usually school and other textbooks sold in multiple copies for classroom use , provide another exceptional category . |
| 24 | These are usually news and current affairs programmes giving information about the UK or the USA and are available free , or on subscription from the respective embassies or information services . |
| 25 | In some towns there are more hashish and gun shops than grocery stores . |
| 26 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix is a different creature altogether , and not really of concern to Adobe at present , because most SCO products shipped are still transaction and ASCII-based , not GUI-based . |
| 27 | Firstly , if the decree absolute of divorce has not been pronounced the parties are still husband and wife ( Fender v St John-Mildmay [ 1938 ] AC 1 ) ; and we have seen that transfers between them ( provided they are both domiciled in the UK ) are exempt from a charge to inheritance tax ( see Chapter 2 , p20 ) even if they are living apart . |
| 28 | The two main parties are still neck and neck , pointing to a hung Parliament . |
| 29 | His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland . |
| 30 | Labour 's policies , which are partly monopoly and partly over-regulatory , and aim to damage the industry 's profits and investments , could only make matters worse . |