Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |
| 2 | The sales potential for technologydriven , ultra-real pornographic and violent experiences via the computer is so great that computer engineers are furiously designing software that will satisfy an otaku 's ‘ sexual ’ needs . |
| 3 | As a result , many who are genuinely aggrieved by apparently unlawful decisions by government bodies and public officials are effectively denied access to justice . |
| 4 | British single-parry governments are properly speaking minority governments . |
| 5 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 6 | Although Mr Nakayama has been slowly winning respect abroad , his performance in the Diet ( parliament ) has been abysmal . |
| 7 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 8 | Lisa Marie has been secretly recording demo tapes of songs she has written . |
| 9 | There are other reasons why women are unable to build up sufficient National Insurance contributions and are thereby denied access to unemployment benefit . |
| 10 | A sacrifice of analytical rigour may not be that important if the concept which has been thereby given life is never used , and it is clear from Lord Greene M.R 's judgment in the Wednesbury case that he conceived of it being utilised only in the extreme ( and hypothetical ) instance of ‘ dismissal for red hair type of case . ’ |
| 11 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 12 | Barbra , 50 , had her heart set on property in California until she found out it was in the path of the killers which are slowly migrating north from South America where 600 people have been stung to death . |
| 13 | you only get like , they ge the guys are on get pound a week if they 're ill |
| 14 | Individual clinicians are constantly taking management decisions . |
| 15 | Solar energy is produced by the thermonuclear reactions which are constantly taking place in the sun which has a temperature of 20 million degrees centigrade . |
| 16 | While curiosity is a fundamental quality for a designer , it must be accompanied by a wide-ranging interest in the social , cultural and industrial transformations that are constantly taking place . |
| 17 | Throughout the world , a host of festivals and special events are constantly taking place . |
| 18 | Similar changes are constantly taking place in other parts of our bodies . |
| 19 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 20 | Authors in countries around the world are constantly releasing software for business and pleasure use . |
| 21 | Authors in countries around the world are constantly releasing software for business and pleasure use . |
| 22 | We are constantly examining policy in that light . |
| 23 | At the same time , they are constantly weighing evidence . |
| 24 | AS ONE gets older one 's remaining illustrations are constantly following Father Christmas , fairies , fair play , etc. down the plug-hole . |
| 25 | People are suddenly saying investment managers will come into charities which were previously managed by the Official Custodian . |
| 26 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 27 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 28 | Approximately 60 per cent of the Group 's sales are accounted for by uPVC products and 40 per cent are thermally treated aluminium products . |
| 29 | These feelings of community are better termed communion , since they represent a form of community at the level of an individual 's subjective experience or consciousness . |
| 30 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |