Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
| 2 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 3 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 4 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 5 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 6 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 7 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 8 | The preliminary findings are presumably in the hands of the Government , but we are not being given access to it . ’ |
| 9 | I know you 're a grown woman but so are most of the others who lurch their way down the not-so-primrosy path to the Betty Ford Clinic . ’ |
| 10 | In which group , or category , of industry are most of the factories on the Treforest industrial estate ? |
| 11 | Without exception , the show 's directors are all under 30 , as are most of the contributors , and Jason Rebello looks barely old enough to order a drink . |
| 12 | The Basques and Navarrese are much like the Gascons — only worse . |
| 13 | They are much like the legends , but as to what that means — ‘ |
| 14 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
| 15 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 16 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 17 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 18 | My friends who lived nearby were all envious for I was the only one who had ever been down into the depths of the mysterious cellar . |
| 19 | I 've been all over the moors looking for you ! |
| 20 | I am sufficiently behind the scenes to know the worth of political life . |
| 21 | A leafy bushy plant , much branched , Culpeper in the 17th century wrote of it as the " herb which all authors are together by the ears about , and rail at one another like lawyers " . |
| 22 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 23 | Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek . |
| 24 | So long as the techniques that determine both how software is used and how it is made are only in the hands of technical experts , computer systems will never find the universal application which is certainly within their grasp . |
| 25 | On section eleven , yes we are along with the Liberals , we are trying to maintain the budget against the government cuts , but do n't anybody get away with the impression that that is going to maintain the service as it is at the moment , because we are really to pick up extra pupils . |
| 26 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 27 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not in the counsels of bishops and archbishops . |
| 29 | Funding of the scheme has been largely by the developers of the Gyle Centre and the Scottish Office . |
| 30 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |