Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they 're , they are complete up to programme by Wednesday dinner time . |
| 2 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 3 | Does not that nail the lie being put around that these circumstances are due not to world but to British recession ? |
| 4 | In Verbivore Brooke-Rose makes use of techniques that are possible only in prose narrative : the mixing of documentary-like realism with ‘ events ’ which are unthinkable from a visual or aural point of view , and the circular embedding of narrative fragments . |
| 5 | This may have been due partly to prudence . |
| 6 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 7 | The presence or absence of reefs can not be explained solely in terms of temperature and turbidity , for , although reefs are absent from cold current shorelines , such as the west coast of South America , they do not occur even where the temperatures are high enough for coral in this region . |
| 8 | ( The procedure requires , of course , acceptance of the view that not all encoded features of meaning are semantic simply by definition . ) |
| 9 | Additionally , certain items are free altogether of capital gains tax ; and others , such as the sale of a family business , get special treatment . |
| 10 | Hereford are a real hard luck story this season … nothing seems to go their way … they could have been 2-1 up at half-time … surely Leroy May could n't get any closer to scoring … |
| 11 | We are interested only in quality . |
| 12 | Indeed , several authorities have striven to prove that the Pembroke and the White Park are different only in colour and that the Pembroke was a direct descendant of those tenth-century red-eared whites . |
| 13 | Paths are undefined up to summit and for much of the descent , but route-finding is quite easy in clear weather . |
| 14 | The thoughts are subject also to refinement within the dynamic of the group . |
| 15 | Particles larger than this are subject only to saltation and surface creep . |
| 16 | According to Chomsky and Halle , at the abstract phonological level there is no stress ; stress ( of many different levels ) is the result of the application of phonological rules , which are simple enough in theory but highly complex in practice . |
| 17 | In both cases the home team had been 2-0 down at half-time , Southampton fighting back , literally , to force a draw , Arsenal a win . |
| 18 | In practice , the chromosomes are visible only during cell division , when the DNA of which they are mainly composed , contracts . |
| 19 | Fees for the Junior and Senior School are payable either by lump sum on or before 5th September 1992 , for which an advance payment allowance of 4 ½%; will be granted , or by ten monthly instalments on the fifth day of each month from September to June inclusive under Direct Debit Mandate . |
| 20 | But if the expenses in question are payable out of income to which the beneficiary has already become entitled , the expenses are not a proper deduction from the beneficiary 's total income , since they represent simply the mode in which he applies his income after he has become entitled to it . |
| 21 | All three sites investigated , in the Delaware River catchment , are accessible only by boat with camping occurring in a variety of campsites including camp-grounds , designated primitive sites and undeveloped user-selected sites . |
| 22 | ‘ I am subject only to grief , Nicholas said . |
| 23 | We 're right out of time . |
| 24 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're paranoic here about secrecy , ’ a Palace source said . |
| 26 | ‘ I said you 're pretty out of shape . ’ |
| 27 | Cos I know they 're all up to date . |
| 28 | Do you think they 're all in at school ? |
| 29 | ‘ It may not be a success if we 're 1–0 up at half-time , ’ they admit . |
| 30 | And for supporters of more ambitious clubs , there is the long , slow death of Championship dreams , where hope is extinguished little by little , week by week , until one cold wet January afternoon , you 're 1–0 down at home to Southampton , and you write the rest of the year off and start looking forward to August again . |