Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 2 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 3 | He may have believed , and was encouraged to think , that the Communist party would win the coming election in France and form , or at least be made part of , a new government ; and the Russian advice seems to have been to hold on and to wait for ‘ democratic France ’ and its ‘ progressive forces ’ to support the cause of colonial liberation . |
| 4 | It will lead to renewed demands that the judge should fix the amount of damages if a jury has decided that defamation has been proved or at least be given power to lay down minimum and maximum limits for juries . |
| 5 | If I were playing an indisputably virtuous character , then cliché dictates that I would at least be spared death , imprisonment or degradation . |