Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | For example , if you spell " existence " as the incorrect " existance " , you could try to understand why — in this case , because there are two suffixes , one " -ence " and another " -ance " , and you have chosen to add the wrong one to " exist " ( the two suffixes are confusingly pronounced basically the same ) . |
| 3 | Proceedings may be instituted before a national court , and such proceedings have been successfully brought in the UK . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 6 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 7 | When they are so realized then the attitude-holder may draw upon , and develop , these implicit argumentative aspects of belief . |
| 8 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 9 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 10 | I know of one Free Range Producer in East Anglia whose eggs are only collected once a week . |
| 11 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 12 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 13 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 14 | Then he said : ‘ I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here , but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host , the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington . ’ |
| 15 | By examining social processes , I am not throwing out the baby with the bath water : I do concede that inherited properties play a part . |
| 16 | Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst . |
| 17 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
| 18 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 19 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 20 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 21 | I am concerned that many young people with learning difficulties are not taking up the assessment offered in their final year of education . |
| 22 | At present , the acquisition , development , and dissemination of computer methods and the creation of useful machine-readable data are not given anywhere the same credit or standing as traditional forms of research and publication despite the fact that the latter have no greater claim on scholarship and far less a claim on relevance . |
| 23 | Tenants and their staff are not carried on the company payroll . |
| 24 | Currently , 6,000 inspections are not carried out every year . |
| 25 | Where certain skills and knowledge are not valued then the profession will have little status . |
| 26 | We are not told why the lepers were wandering around when it was normal , at that time , for lepers to be separated from the rest of society . |
| 27 | But the point is that we are not told why the distinction between particular and species-identity makes sense at all . |
| 28 | They are not investigating why the company wishes to move from Barrhead . |
| 29 | I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe . |
| 30 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |