Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 2 | Animal Rights groups seldom admit humane care of animals is possible because they are fundamentally against all human/animal relationships . |
| 3 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 4 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 5 | We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular . |
| 6 | If we continued to exclude children , we are effectively excluding many women , we are excluding families and in many ways the men as well . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 8 | A way of understanding this difference may be to think of formal features as in some way built up in our minds from the black marks which form writing on the page , or from the speech sounds picked up by our ears , while contextual features are somewhere outside this physical realization of the language in the world , or pre-existing in the minds of the participants . |
| 9 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 10 | GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them . |
| 11 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 12 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 14 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 15 | Lights are on in some of the windows as milkmen and postmen swallow mugs of hot tea . |
| 16 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 17 | She pays £12.50 a week for a one room flat , so the couple are constantly in each other 's company . |
| 18 | As a result of his comparison of household budgets in 1893 , Henry Higgs commented that good housekeeping was the crucial variable which could actually ‘ turn the balance of comfort in favour of one workman whose wages are much below those of another ’ . |
| 19 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 20 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 21 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 22 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 23 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 24 | Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . ) |
| 25 | These are all rou you see they 're all these are all round that area . |
| 26 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 27 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 28 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 29 | But is common that they both are together in that way . |
| 30 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |