Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [is] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police spokeswoman said : ‘ Coming home to find someone has broken in is most people 's worst nightmare . |
| 2 | Who goes down is another matter . |
| 3 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 4 | To quality for the discount — accommodation must be booked through 's central reservation offices on : |
| 5 | What seems more difficult to find nowadays is genuine passion and thankfully no-one with the will to survive could ever describe Bitumen as wishy-washy . |
| 6 | But a point that needs to be stressed here is that logic and deduction alone can not establish the truth of factual statements of the kind figuring in our examples . |
| 7 | Here I am , Serafin , writing my shopping list on the first piece of paper that comes to hand and what I 'm writing down is two shirts for myself and one for my son . |
| 8 | The other lesson that has come out of the work within the RAF and from the work done outside is that expert systems in particular , but AI in general will not come about as stand-alone , independent systems , but will be embedded or connected to existing or planned conventional computing . |
| 9 | And when the celebrations are over have a nice soak in the bath with The Grown Up 's First Bath Book ( Windrush , £7.99 ) a plastic book full of puzzles , anagrams and trivia , complete with a felt-tip pen . |
| 10 | Listening attentively is hard work — even harder work when one can not hear well . |
| 11 | Er you ready for traffic and tra I cou what I could do here is wonderful being on B B C cos you can go like this and say this is radio two |
| 12 | What it says here is zero N is zero , the value is nine thousand five hundred . |
| 13 | Once this move is made there is little chance the village school will ever reopen . ’ |
| 14 | The total energy consumed overnight is 70 megawatts , the amount needed daily to supply electricity to a town of around 70,000 like Basingstoke , St Albans or Methyr Tydfil , according to research published yesterday by Friends of the Earth . |
| 15 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 16 | Moreover , once this premise is accepted there is less reason to seek to cure it ; pain , illness and disease become an accepted consequence of old age . |
| 17 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 18 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 19 | THE problem with sending Christmas gifts to children living overseas is that postage can double the price of the presents . |
| 20 | The most viable release binding I 've seen recently is this model from Swiss manufacturer Meyer . |
| 21 | OMAR , Talkin' Loud 's young soul hopeful , promotes his recent ‘ Music ’ album with dates at |
| 22 | It 's well over a week since the last patch of ground was cleared and a spider turning up is pure chance . ’ |
| 23 | Another medium that can be used selectively is direct marketing , a fact which has been vigorously promoted by the Post Office . |
| 24 | But you see what we 've got here is this problem of the old definition of quality , still lurking there in the mind , quality is a degree of excellence , therefore you have high quality and low quality . |
| 25 | ( Shown here is Classic Crimson . ) |
| 26 | Also shown here is applied art of the first half of the 19th century , including Swansea and Nantgarw porcelain . |
| 27 | The actual size of the heart design shown here is 12. 5cm ( 5in ) square . |
| 28 | The longest specimen shown here is 9 cm long . |
| 29 | What is needed today is that sum which , invested , will with interest amount to £100 in one year . |
| 30 | What is needed today is that sum which , invested , will with interest amount to £100 in one year . |