Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 2 | QA activities may not necessarily only be at the end of the implementation phase . |
| 3 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 4 | The Broken Tooths readily accepted Gorbad as their leader , as is the fashion of Orcs who know when they are beaten and who would much sooner be on the winning side . |
| 5 | ‘ If Ally McCoist , Ian Durrant and Paul McStay had been born bambinos instead of bairns , they would all now be in the Italian first division and commanding the same prices . |
| 6 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) The tenant should try to insert reference to the tenant being construed to be : the tenant for the time being or better still : while this Lease shall be vested in the Tenant This is to obviate the remote possibility of an argument as to whether the bankruptcy or liquidation of the original tenant ( after an assignment ) who will presumably still be within the definition of " the Tenant " could affect the re-entry provisions contained in the lease . |
| 8 | Both my parents smoke , and my sister smokes and I ca n't any longer be in the same room as them ! |
| 9 | If this was done , the reformers argued , it would give the sections of the public concerned with these areas of policy a chance to react , and it would once again be worth the pressure groups ' while to explain their points to the Commons before the precise details of forthcoming legislation were settled . |
| 10 | Not least because of the assumption that the conditions were approximately the same — modernization and foreign domination — and that China might once again be in a position to affect the course of Vietnamese history . |
| 11 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
| 12 | In other cases of non-compulsory transfer the parties will probably still be under the same constraints about fixing the price . |
| 13 | They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it . |
| 14 | He 'd far rather be with the grown-ups then playing nursemaid to you . ’ |
| 15 | In the Daily Mail , Pamella 's story became the tale of a ‘ sickeningly self-obsessed , utterly immoral and unashamedly amoral … call-girl ’ , ‘ an avaricious , manipulative woman with a beautiful face … a pathetic figure whose life can now only be on a downward slope . ’ |
| 16 | DGX is aiming at increasing its current budget of ECU95 million by about 30% , but after negotiations with member states it may well only be in the region of 15% . |
| 17 | If so , it would surely only be after a period of mourning . |
| 18 | While the silence lengthened , he reflected upon the cruelty of Fate : had he but waited , had he refused to give in to Ann 's pleadings , he might even now be in a position to make Martha his own ; but as things had turned out he was saddled with a wife he did not love and would never love — however many sons she bore him . |
| 19 | Cherry Hill is in the ‘ International Modern ’ style and could equally well be on the outskirts of Stuttgart or San Francisco as Sunningdale . |
| 20 | Magyars , Roumanians , Serbs , Bulgars , Arnauts ( Albanians ) , Greeks and Turks will then finally be in a position to settle their own mutual disputes without the intervention of foreign powers , to settle among themselves the bounds of their individual national territories , to manage their internal affairs according to their own judgement . |
| 21 | One party or the other will almost always be in a position to complain that the judge has made a mistake , that the " right " was his , not his opponent 's . |
| 22 | He will almost always be in the life you describe what he is as a literary concept , a private investigator , a man with all the freedom of action of the amateur detective of old ( see how the blueprint formula still has its influence ) but who uses it actively . |
| 23 | Your tapwater will almost inevitably be at a pH on the hard side of 7 — but acceptable to most commonly sold tropicals . |
| 24 | This would almost certainly be at a loss . |
| 25 | This would almost certainly be at a loss . |
| 26 | When invaders appear , the first troops they will meet will almost certainly be from the provincial army . |
| 27 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 28 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 29 | The words and phrases they need for meetings , negotiating , and presentations will no longer be on the tip of their tongues but at their fingertips . |
| 30 | I suspect that it will involve largely the same personnel , but they will no longer be on the strength of Her Majesty 's inspectorate and will work for the funding council responsible for further education and sixth form colleges . |