Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
2 | If your brickworking skills are n't up to it , you can also cheat by using brick slips , stuck directly to the plaster with special adhesive . |
3 | the Wailers are so out of time , they 're all just like is just so slow it 's just like exactly the same but like about twenty times slower . |
4 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
5 | 4 months after the first tenants moved in , the builders are already back in this council house on the infamous Innsworth Grove estate . |
6 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
7 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
8 | However operating theatres , the elderly day-care centre and non-emergency X-rays are still out of service . |
9 | The bittern 's eyes are low down on its head , and so it can stand concealed in the reeds with its head pointing up , scanning the water below . |
10 | ‘ Sunday : Kids are suddenly back at school tomorrow and have to be labelled . |
11 | Do n't worry if your knees are way up in the air . |
12 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |
13 | We heard the news over the radio at lunch break and I tell you , Clem , my lads are really up in arms . |
14 | Sales by galleries and auction houses dealing in , say , Picasso and Matisse will be caught , but sales by galleries dealing in , say , British pictures from the turn of the century , such as Augustus John and Sickert , may be made without the royalty being paid , since the pictures are now out of copyright . |
15 | of probation clients are now out of work . |
16 | And you think my parents are also in on the plot ? ’ |
17 | Trials are presently on for selections . |
18 | Turn around times for replacing a standard outsole can be as low as 30 minutes , but even when more complicated adjustments and corrections have to be made , shoes are usually back on your feet the same day . |
19 | ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’ |
20 | A brave attempt , but ruined by the fact that neither of the elements are really up to much . |
21 | Its five commissioners are now down to three . |
22 | The offices of R and B. Lettings are now up for sale . |
23 | Salesmen are probably in between these two . |
24 | Incomers tend to see this in class terms as well — pilots are generally upper crust , while engineers are more down to earth ( socially as well as literally' ) Since many incomer workers are ex-military the distinction is often phrased in military terms : officers and ‘ other ranks ’ . |
25 | Half the lines are still down since the war . |
26 | And almost 60pc said children with special educational needs are worse off since the introduction of the reforms . |
27 | The Sandinistas point out that many thousands of rebels are already back inside the country , and that their alleged attacks necessitated the ending of the ceasefire . |
28 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
29 | The alternatives are either up to 25% additional time ( because some people take longer to read and write because of the specific difficulty ) or the use of an emendatory writer or whatever the psychologist may recommend . |
30 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |