Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what it 's worth , Silicon Graphics Inc and MIPS Computer Systems Inc are understood to be drawing together a new executive-level technical committee of the Advanced Computing Environment . |
| 2 | These BSL interpreters appeared to be using only a single register , and this corresponded to a signed version closely tied to the English of the original message . |
| 3 | The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future . |
| 4 | But you will be building up a useful nest egg and wo n't have to pay either capital gains or income tax on the money you get back . |
| 5 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 6 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 7 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 8 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 9 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 10 | The aim should be to carry out a prompt and thorough investigation . |
| 11 | As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me . |
| 12 | This list has , believe it or not , really got me in the mood for venturing back to see United — tommorrow should see me travelling up the M1 if I can get the transport arranged — and hopefully I 'll be seeing quite a few games throughout the season . |
| 13 | Er , but that assertion needs to be examined just a little more closely because the British government are not without blame in relation to this matter , er the issues er affecting these forthcoming elections should have been resolved at the Edinburgh summit during the presidency of the British government . |
| 14 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 15 | Socioecology assumes that any ecological opportunity ( technically known as a niche ) exploited in the wild by animals after billions of years of evolution will be filled in a couple of months in a work environment . |
| 16 | Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien . |
| 17 | Every building has a shrine at which offerings must be placed twice a day . |
| 18 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 19 | Secretary of State for giving way , but when he made his proni provisional announcement on the er on the total S S A for Wales , was he aware that the er the various er salary review bodies would be bringing in a er a recommendation which was almost twice the current rate of inflation ? |
| 20 | Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes |
| 21 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 22 | I shall be bringing out a very large book on all aspects of marines in the latter half of this year , so keep an eye out for it . |
| 23 | The next issue of the magazine will be edited by Sally Townsend who will be bringing together a focus on the recent college shows and the Whitechapel open . |
| 24 | If they could be spaced out a bit , then it would probably be easier and less likely to be trouble . |
| 25 | The assumption is that Rizzo 's appointment to the finance post is a short-term measure and that his key function will be to work out a new pricing strategy , which means that anything we have heard on pricing on the new ES/9000s and AS/400s due next month will be overtaken by events . |
| 26 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 27 | 7 This suit is not severely masculine — it consists of a shirt , tie and pale yellow jacket with fancy , scalloped lapels , and so could be considered merely a fashionable , feminine version of masculine dress . |
| 28 | In the meantime , the band themselves will be pressing up a limited edition single in December for their two Irish dates in Dublin and Belfast . |
| 29 | It follows also that gravity has a negligible effect on small animals , because their surface to volume ratio is so large : if , for example , a mouse was to be dropped down a 30-metre well-shaft it would be stunned , but would scamper away relatively intact because wind resistance acting on its relatively larger surface would counteract the pull of gravity . |
| 30 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |