Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] are [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's always amazing to me that you can be a man in charge of 100 or 200 people , then you get your pension book and suddenly you are regarded as deaf and daft . |
| 2 | Then suddenly you are lost but not lost , dawdling |
| 3 | The counsellor said , weighing her words , ‘ Perhaps you are saying that you were right in your feeling , your sense that there was something going on , even though it was not an affair but a friendship . ’ |
| 4 | So we are determined that there should be no hint of an ‘ iron curtain ’ — very much the reverse ! ’ |
| 5 | Responses to extreme forms of the debt crisis are also conditioned by who holds the debt , how much they are hurt and their power to take avoiding action . |
| 6 | If someone realizes you do not hear well , perhaps they are wondering if they will be understood and perhaps they feel unsure what to do . |
| 7 | Perhaps they are distorted and warped . |
| 8 | The ideal Royal Mail International service for your personal requirements depends upon what exactly you are sending and how urgent it is . |
| 9 | ‘ The sooner this business is done , Master Clerk , the sooner you are gone and that will make me very happy ! ’ |
| 10 | Thus we are told that Brook Taylor , the author of the first major British work on perspective ( 1715 ) , was ‘ a professional Newtonian scientist ’ ( p. 287 ) . |
| 11 | Thus we are told that it is a ‘ good film ’ , is ‘ riveting viewing ’ and has ‘ excellent acting ’ but are never told what makes a film ‘ good ’ , why certain images are ‘ riveting ’ or what is ‘ excellent acting ’ . |
| 12 | Thus we are told that ‘ horses galloped in , but not who they were attacking ; and though the police ‘ used their batons liberally ’ , it is not revealed who they were used against . |
| 13 | Er , this year hopefully er , with pressure , again as I said earlier but nevertheless we are hoping and having er , put in our new price increases for the season which is more or less beginning now . |
| 14 | Nevertheless we are told that he kept tablets or notebooks under his pillow , and would practise his letters from time to time . |
| 15 | It is easy enough to identify opposing terms or attitudes in a text , but how does one decide whether or not they are balanced or reconciled ? |
| 16 | Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy ( the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks ) ; Hadfield goes catatonic with terror , and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle . |
| 17 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 18 | The more they are cosseted and pampered , the worse they perform . |
| 19 | Slowly we are noting that Mark Antony is not as shallow as he first appeared . |
| 20 | Hence we are suggesting that L for 1986 relative to 1976 might equal |
| 21 | Repeatedly we are told that if its characters fail to resist the Shadow , they will be taken over , but if they do resist they may get killed ; similarly if they reject the vagaries of chance ( if Frodo for instance had refused to leave the Shire with the Ring ) , it 's likely something highly unpleasant will happen , but if they accept and obey things could grow even worse . |
| 22 | Now we are told that there should also be a European defence force , to which the 12 members would contribute . |
| 23 | But now we are told that the Labour party plans to increase the local contribution to no less than 20 per cent . |
| 24 | Now we are told that universal capping is necessary because the Secretary of State and his colleagues are frightened of trusting local people to make local decisions under the new banded system . |
| 25 | Now we are told that BR must have a high-speed line . |
| 26 | ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence . |
| 27 | It can be weekly , fortnightly , monthly , or just occasionally on request but quite often we are finding that a person who 's assessed as needing help weekly , but all that we have got is fortnightly , and all of the time there are clients waiting for us to up the amount of help that we 're giving to them and , very much , it needs to be when it benefits them , and when it fits in with their lives . |
| 28 | It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers . |
| 29 | They are so basic they seem obvious , yet it 's amazing how often they are broken or ignored . |
| 30 | Often they are recruited or assigned at short notice to an unfamiliar school and are expected to instantly mould themselves to its systems of operating and style . |