Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface . |
| 2 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
| 3 | Not only that ; we would be breaking the law if we ‘ interfered ’ with him in any way ; the sand lizard is considered rare enough to have been designated a ‘ protected species ’ ( Wildlife and Countryside Act , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 5 | A standard rumour was that someone the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night . |
| 6 | Women and disabled drivers who feel at risk of breaking down alone have been thrown a lifeline by a motoring organisation . |
| 7 | Each is eager to present himself as the most qualified man to head off protectionist measures and to restore Japan 's good name , which lately has been looking a little tarnished . |
| 8 | He had just missed being elected a member of this Academy by a single vote . |
| 9 | And that means this hay meadow which would normally have been cut a month ago is still standing to let wildflowers seed and fledgling birds fly . |
| 10 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 11 | One great risk they have already taken is to plant a new church : after all , it may not survive ! |
| 12 | Once Izzat is tainted a woman can do very little about it . |
| 13 | The experiment has been extended by trying to teach rats , at various intervals after teaching them to run to avoid a shock , to stay dead still to avoid being given a shock . |
| 14 | Another approach to finding more to read is to consult a bibliography , a list of books . |
| 15 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 16 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 17 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 18 | A group of people who entered some state at about the same time and whose life histories are thereafter studied is called a cohort . |
| 19 | A wholesale buyer of women 's underwear for a large store could not hope to inspect every single item she intends buying ; what she usually does is to inspect a sample of goods and to base her decision on this . |
| 20 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 21 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 22 | You will also have been earning a salary meanwhile , so you are likely to be considerably better off as a result . |
| 23 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 26 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
| 27 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 29 | There is a dining room ( with a beautiful Italian monks ' table dating from the early 18th century which interestingly has been lowered a few inches — the monks ate standing up ) , three bedrooms individually decorated , a comfortable study-cum-television room with a log-burning stove — and for bookworms , over 3,000 books . |
| 30 | So I mean if you , if that 's how you actually feel then what we should really do is to sign a note at some stage saying you are fit for work on a certain date . |