Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you spell " existence " as the incorrect " existance " , you could try to understand why — in this case , because there are two suffixes , one " -ence " and another " -ance " , and you have chosen to add the wrong one to " exist " ( the two suffixes are confusingly pronounced basically the same ) . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 3 | When they are so realized then the attitude-holder may draw upon , and develop , these implicit argumentative aspects of belief . |
| 4 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 5 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 6 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 7 | I am just filling in the days , she thought — until Edmund returns . |
| 8 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 9 | Word is coming in that rival hamlets are already filling in the forms as fast as they can put pen to paper . |
| 10 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 11 | At this point we 're only bringing in the Cherokee and the Viper , but ultimately we 'll bring in the Grand Cherokee and the minivan [ MPV ] , although we wo n't do those until we have right-hand drive versions , which may come before the next generation models . |
| 12 | You 're soon drive round the bend by slippery blocks that wo n't let you stand still on them , electrical blocks that can only be crossed when the current 's off , blocks that crumble when you stand on ‘ em , others with gaping holes which you must fix by flicking a switch before you can cross … |
| 13 | So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of |
| 14 | We 're just running out the material that we 've got here . |
| 15 | Because we 're massively speeding up the evolutionary process , we may well create destabilisation within the ecosystem . |
| 16 | What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form |
| 17 | Oh you 're still filling in the |
| 18 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 19 | But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window . |
| 20 | The man shouts , ‘ There ai n't no hurry , you got another ten minutes ’ , but by then we 're both hammering down the escalator . |
| 21 | You 're probably wondering where the point lies in all this . |
| 22 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 23 | It 's quite a costly scheme because you 're actually paying both the employer 's and the employee 's contributions . |
| 24 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 25 | If they are deliberately turned up the ‘ right ’ way , they appear doubly solid , as the brighter light strikes the paler area . |
| 26 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 27 | People are hardly beating down the door ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 29 | I am still paying off the sofa which came from a catalogue . |
| 30 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |