Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably Mira is composing a poem , counting the syllables as she walks . |
| 2 | Before long Gaveston was given the hitherto exclusively royal title of earl of Cornwall , an affront to the established councillors and nobility which he did nothing to palliate by his swaggering arrogance , especially at Edward 's coronation in which he played a leading role ; just as outrageous were the lands and revenues which went with titles , office and power . |
| 3 | Of course , few of us really set out to destroy someone of whom we are jealous ; none the less Hegel is describing an extreme form of such a feeling . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that there was trouble with one of the other directors — apparently Jefferson was having a high old time with his wife and , to add insult to injury , charging the hotel rooms to expenses — you may recall that Downton lost two very valuable contracts with players in tennis and golf . |
| 5 | So Carol 's using the gel and she 's making it into a lather . |
| 6 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 7 | So Daedalus is developing a new word-processing program . |
| 8 | So Daedalus is inventing the foamblowing car . |
| 9 | So ITV is driving a comparatively modest engine . |
| 10 | So Coleridge is denying a strong element of Christian theology . |
| 11 | Perhaps Jesus is refuting the popular idea of Messiah , which was that a descendant of David would come as a nationalistic leader , drive the Romans out and restore the kingdom of Israel . |
| 12 | putting a lot more detail in , rather than , any Beano Annual you should buy , there is always things in the background that draw you eye in to the picture , so Amy 's putting a lot more detail into the picture as it coming up for re-drawing . |
| 13 | In 1984 we privatised British Telecom but only Mercury was given a licence to carry services over fixed links . |
| 14 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 15 | So Paul is having a week dozing really , he 's not doing much work this week |
| 16 | So Lanfranc was left no choice : he had to retain the monastic community in his cathedral church , and we may ask what he found on his arrival , and what impression it made on him . |
| 17 | Perhaps Betty was enjoying the occasion . |
| 18 | So Dublin was given a voice , but no responsibility , in the affairs of Northern Ireland , an arrangement that was expected to be well received by the Catholic community . |
| 19 | Eventually Watney 's waved the white flag , and Maxwell Joseph had acquired the brewery he wanted . |
| 20 | Some time soon Ian 's planning a flying circus 10,000ft up . |
| 21 | Already Scathach was envying the look of the warrior by the trees . |
| 22 | Fucking Mick 's making a fortune training at Arsenal ! |
| 23 | Meanwhile Posi was sliding the ship forward , slowly and carefully because of the malfunctioning guidance system , to the co-ordinates Frejji had chosen . |
| 24 | But tonight Crabb is starting a life sentence for murder and Taylor was given nine years for perverting the course of justice . |
| 25 | Anyway Tim 's paying a lot towards that house . |
| 26 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 27 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |
| 28 | To complicate matters further Israel was using an intermediary , an Iranian businessman called Manucher Ghorbanifar , who was already well known to American intelligence for having fabricated tales . |
| 29 | Marathon running … for the first time ever Nepal is having a big race … |
| 30 | When they do , they hit the sack for marathon love-making sessions — that 's once Bill 's made the bed ! |