Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 2 | At a school in Kent pupils beginning Key Stage 2 were taken on an exploratory tour of a certain street . |
| 3 | I mean if , if she wanted you to go out there today , just if then the sensible is to pick up a taxi . |
| 4 | and you feel really confident about it , you think , Wow this is piling up the marks . |
| 5 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 6 | One way of doing this is to point out the less organized character of a movement , in which there may be no regular or easily identifiable membership ( no ‘ party card ’ or dues ) , and little in the way of a central office or staff . |
| 7 | The object is to win — and the way to achieve this is to knock out the opponent . |
| 8 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 9 | This is carrying on a long tradition of Eastern Centre get-togethers for E H Os , we 've done residential courses every two years for I do n't know how many years . |
| 10 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 11 | An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards . |
| 12 | Can we come back to the criteria and I probably ought to refer you lar really to the I I know this is set out a little br a s rather shorthanded fashion . |
| 13 | One is doing something with a Mouli not recommended by Prue Leith 's School of Food and Wine diploma course ; another is bending over a table ; a third is spitting on to his palms . |
| 14 | Renewed accusations had been made against Jones on Friday 10 March by James Brophy , the Utah vice president for research , who made allegations of piracy to Prof. John Lamb of Brigham Young University , and this was followed up the next week by Pons making general accusations against Jones to Dr Gajewski at the DOE . |
| 15 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 16 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 17 | One was to downgrade a proposed new peer to a knighthood ; another was to leave out a name completely . |
| 18 | The second is to lay down the ground-rules for generalizing from one set of conditions to another , for example , from the laboratory to the real world . |
| 19 | These were to find out the views of parents and staff about all aspects of nursery life at the outset and from this to prioritise agreed areas for development to form an action plan . |
| 20 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 21 | To reveal these is to peel back a curtain and show this version of institutional order is only one social possibility , and furthermore is a continually manipulated experience . |
| 22 | So what you need to do with these is work out the right way round that they should go and the answer is a number and you need to put the numbers in there do n't you . |
| 23 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 24 | Auguste Comte ( 1798–1857 ) , for example , compared different societies with the intention of showing that all were evolving along a similar path . |
| 25 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 26 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 27 | The graveyard was packed with people , more were arriving down the farm lanes and along the main road from east and west . |
| 28 | Informix Software Ltd is setting up an investigation unit in the UK , providing a free , confidential phone line for resellers and users and including a licence manager with its software , in a new initiative to clamp down on software piracy in its reseller channel . |
| 29 | Paraphone Ltd is licensing out the manufacturing and marketing of several aspects of this technology worldwide . |
| 30 | 1,1,1 was brought in the Montreal Protocol negotiations later than tetra , but here , too , the UK government wants an early phaseout — by 1 January 1996 if possible . |