Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh hang on mum 's getting that . |
| 2 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that one way in which we can cut down imports is to buy British ? |
| 4 | So Daedalus is inventing novel ‘ X-ray stains ’ to make bacteria , etc. , absorb X-rays strongly . |
| 5 | So Daedalus is squirting one such solution through small round nozzles into the other . |
| 6 | It claims that only Lothian is providing extra payments to maintain standards of care , even though all authorities are receiving Scottish Office grants . |
| 7 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 8 | ‘ The Tories ’ only purpose is to neuter local democracy , shunt power upwards to the Scottish Office and sideways to the Tory placemen and devolve power to the Rotary Club tea-room . |
| 9 | Basil does not transplant well , so seed is sown one or two to a small pot , and then planted out complete , without disturbing the root-hall . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Equity is adding new fields of jurisdiction . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Puffin is launching Ready , Steady , Read ! , a new series designed to move readers from picture books to ‘ chapter ’ books . |
| 12 | Some realistic guidelines are beginning to emerge , but further work is needed this year . |
| 13 | He always puts up with Lennie , and is there whenever Lennie is feeling ashamed or unwanted and produces his ‘ I could just go to the hills and ’ I could find a cave , and pet mice ’ speech . |
| 14 | Now Carol 's doing this beautifully , and it really does feel nice ! |
| 15 | And now Nigel is fighting another slump that threatens Graham Taylor 's fading grasp on the manager 's job after four games without a win . |
| 16 | Now Oxfam is urging thousands of supporters to lobby the Treasury appealing for more , not less , money to the Third World . |
| 17 | ALCOHOL dehydrates the body by making drinkers pass more urine and by now Liz is feeling these effects , so she visits the bathroom . |
| 18 | While girls are at higher risk than boys , increasingly research is suggesting more boys experience sexual abuse than was at first thought . |
| 19 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 20 | And here Jesus is demonstrating that . |
| 21 | Well Barry 's doing alright now . |
| 22 | Today madness is called mental illness . |
| 23 | How Data is Stored 8.3.3 |
| 24 | How Data is Read/Written 8.3.2 |
| 25 | If an average is taken , then D.R. is producing enough yarn to manufacture 65,000 square metres of carpet each week . |
| 26 | If the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is equal to its share of UK population and , if this is true for all regions , then GDP is spread proportional to population throughout the country . |
| 27 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |
| 28 | In relation to running-down cases or cases where liability is admitted automatic discovery is limited to disclosure by the plaintiff of any documents relating to special damages . |
| 29 | But their tandem ride comes at a time when unity is becoming more of a possibility in South Africa . |
| 30 | This is perhaps best signified in Act five when Tamburlaine is sent two young virgins by the governor of Damascus . |