Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We do the same for the submatrix bordered by the first row and column , and so on , so that finally we reach the unit matrix as the canonical form for A. It is to be observed that , since in using elementary operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) on A we are effectively at each stage multiplying together determinants neither of which vanishes , the reduction of A to I must be possible when A is on-singular .
2 GPs ' reports are rarely of much help , if only because they do not have the time or the experience to write useful reports and usually resent doing them .
3 But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ .
4 Someone 's been right through that wall there , look .
5 She pays £12.50 a week for a one room flat , so the couple are constantly in each other 's company .
6 Her claw-prints are all over this Anya debacle , and the only physical attentions from me she 's likely to receive in future are a piece of my mind , the rough side of my tongue and my boot up her backside . )
7 These are all rou you see they 're all these are all round that area .
8 Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels .
9 But is common that they both are together in that way .
10 The parties ' intentions are perhaps of more importance than individuals ' commitments .
11 I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective .
12 The staff at these branches are perhaps in most need of training , but manpower budget for relief staff and travelling expense budgets prohibits inclusion of these staff at present time ’ .
13 Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time .
14 The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences .
15 Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake .
16 That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire .
17 He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ .
18 Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ .
19 Serological studies ( for the markers α fetoprotein , β human chorionic gonadotrophin and carcinoembryonic antigen ) are generally of little use because of their lack of specificity and are generally used to monitor patients with tumours of known primary site — for example , CA125 in ovarian cancer .
20 Small minority holdings would normally be valued by reference to dividends , and earnings and assets are generally of less importance in these cases .
21 Onomatopoeic effects are generally of this kind , as we see from the opening sentence of D. H. Lawrence 's Odour of Chrysanthemums ( see 3.4 ) : The small locomotive engine , Number 4 , came clanking , stumbling down from Selston with seven full wagons .
22 Note , if you are already in this position , please call SST Technical Support for advice .
23 They are thus to some extent limited in where they can invest , as we discuss further in chapter 6 .
24 The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary .
25 Solid-liquid phase diagrams are particularly important in the study of alloys and are thus of much importance to metallurgist An ordinary electrical solder is a mixture of tin and lead .
26 We 're just into each other getting our act together . ’
27 Actually they 're fifties maisonettes in the city 's East End , there 's nothing satanic about them , they 're just like any block of flats you 've ever seen , only worse .
28 You 're away in half time .
29 Thirdly , people reach a stage of what we conscious competence in that they 're very aware of what they 're doing and they 're doing it correctly but they 're still at that stage where they 're fairly new and they 're very conscious of what they 're doing .
30 they 're still on that issue I would of thought
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