Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been here before when the poll tax was introduced . |
| 2 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 3 | Emigrations to both America and Australia were overland but after the ice-caps melted some 10000 years ago , those populations became isolated from the others . |
| 4 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 5 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 6 | It promotes the idea both in this country and abroad that we should consume British food , but some people think that what Food From Britain does is enough and that the rest will follow . |
| 7 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 8 | The reason , of course , is so that when the strap is being used the dye wo n't bleed onto the player 's clothes — which is usually the case with straps dyed on both sides . |
| 9 | This is so that when the end of the pattern is reached and the design is read again from the bottom , the uneven top block added to the uneven bottom block make an even number of rows . |
| 10 | Can you confirm that this is so and whether the accounts would then have to carry some sort of explanatory note to this effect ? |
| 11 | I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds . |
| 12 | Reductions depend on what death benefit already applies under the policy , how old the policyholder was when he took out the policy , how old he is now and when the pension is to be taken . |
| 13 | My point is simply that once an ‘ emic ’ definition is attempted , we must go beyond looking for an ‘ essential ’ definition of an isolated concept , and discuss the whole structure of moral categories . |
| 14 | It is almost as though the word job itself has acquired a life and purpose of its own over which we have lost control . |
| 15 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 16 | It was almost as though the young man was preoccupied , troubled by some other problem or aspect which they had not touched upon . |
| 17 | Then , then of course there were n't no traffic signs in the middle of the road , it was a sort of er certain people from went and started that up and er they were all wor all worked in Caldmore it was almost as though the tailoring Caldmore was full of tailors in a way then there were people starting up on their own making clothes , but er there was quite a lot of tailors around er I know there was he 'd got a shop on Caldmore , he was a tailor and er shall we go through all the shops ? |
| 18 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 19 | Typical it was too that when a car became a necessity , he took and passed ( first time , of course ) the French driving test . |