Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the stage we define broadly as intermediate , learners are some way towards developing control of the language they are learning : their store of language has grown to a point where they can adapt , adjust and add to it with some facility ; they can transfer language use from one context to another ; they are building up more complex networks of language and the work we do in the classroom at this level is similarly more complex and less controlled . |
| 2 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 3 | ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ |
| 4 | R. rugosa has enormous glossy red hips , surpassed only by those of R. moyesii ‘ Geranium ’ , which are carried on graceful arching stems . |
| 5 | Their bodies are carried on ten multi-segmented legs . |
| 6 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 7 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 8 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 9 | She went on : ‘ The image has obviously been watered down these last seasons and the situation must be reversed . ’ |
| 10 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 11 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 12 | The objectives of this project are to open up new theoretical insights and practical applications in the field of industrial fault diagnosis by investigating the advantages and disadvantages of a major departure from the way in which the diagnostic problem |
| 13 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 14 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 15 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 17 | And yet they 're bringing in these other things that er enormous cost which nobody wants and you 've still got ta pay , and if you have n't got one , if you have n't got the necessary er coin then that , that could lead to very anti social behaviour . . |
| 18 | Experts say we 're knocking back ONE MILLION pints of beer a day LESS than we were a year ago . |
| 19 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 20 | Only two Company trucks and you 're taking up all that valuable space with fizz ? |
| 21 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 22 | And you know , they 're ticking off all these things jokingly and of course back comes a tape from mother , . |
| 23 | One in three credit buyers have still been paying off some previous transaction with the same lender when they have arranged their most recent significant credit purchase . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously if the FHSAs are paying out all this money on fundholders there is less of a limited pot for other doctors and their patients , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Whereas two out of three people aged between 18 and 34 are paying off some current credit commitment , fewer than one in five pensioners are . |
| 26 | SOUTHAMPTON are lining up Australian international goalkeeper John Filan to replace unsettled former Celtic star Ian Andrews . |
| 27 | They do not believe you ; they think that you are holding back some secret clue that would make it all plain . |
| 28 | And they suggested many employers are holding back bad economic news until after the general election . |
| 29 | I realize with a shock that those tanks are moving down this same peaceful street I 'm now walking along . |
| 30 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |