Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 2 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 4 | Different opinions are given all the time . |
| 5 | So DREADCO chemists are using all the cunning of modern catalytic chemistry to polymerize coal in situ . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’ |
| 7 | If it seems you are training hard — perhaps you are fatigued all the time — you are probably training at too high a level . |
| 8 | Living in a totalitarian system , he said , ‘ you are taught all the time that it 's unbreakable . |
| 9 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 10 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 11 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 12 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 13 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 14 | We wanted to see if Isabella and Edgar Linton are punished all the time by their parents , as we are . ’ |
| 15 | However , advances are happening all the time . |
| 16 | More are appearing all the time , and nineteen eighty two will be no more than a particularly rich year for them . |
| 17 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 18 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 19 | Within this secondary category are grouped all the engineering analysis activities normally performed using computers . |
| 20 | There are no easy answers but If you have not already been applying all the techniques listed in this book when applying for jobs you should find that a methodical approach is more productive than previous haphazard applications . |
| 21 | Who 's been tooling all the parts ? |
| 22 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 23 | INVESTORS in South Wales Electricity — the smallest of the distributors — are laughing all the way to the bank . |
| 24 | Shrewd movie bosses are laughing all the way to the bank — they have already planned Home Alone 3 . |
| 25 | I mean , I think that when people are purchasing all the time the , particularly the order book , is not sensible , but the ad-hoc stuff is hiding the invoices . |
| 26 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 27 | But normally you find that erm both Stan and I would consider the large goods vehicles drivers as being the professionals , because you are driving all the time . |
| 28 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 29 | ‘ We are developing all the time . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the National Grid Company said : ‘ We have recently been made aware the Department of Transport is objecting . |