Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively ! |
| 2 | Is John MOtson Eric cantona 's agent ? he cant talk about his Gallic flair without sounding like he s become sexually aroused . |
| 3 | Credit to Whelan — he s played well enough , but strikers work in pairs … |
| 4 | But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger . |
| 5 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 6 | These criticisms seem valid and if NAB is to cope successfully with its daunting task of planning public sector higher education and negotiating with the University Grants Committee , then it would benefit from having more academic expertise and more representation from industry and the professions . |
| 7 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |
| 9 | but life generally is helping Well that 's nice |
| 10 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 11 | Although we have argued for the view that law is differentiated rather than monolithic , we have to stress that there do exist common factors and interrelations , both within specific arenas and within the legal system as a whole , that have to be considered . |
| 12 | But where , on the one hand , the hierarchy of the chivalry is systematically catalogued , from dukes to mere gentlemen , the commonalty is differentiated only to the extent that a passing reference to ‘ the chief of theis folkes , as the substantiall marchauntes , the welthie grasiers and farmers ’ acknowledges the existence of sub-species . |
| 13 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 14 | THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday . |
| 15 | This in turn depends on the relevance it has , how important it is to them not to get pregnant , and how easy emotionally and practically it is to go somewhere and ask for it . |
| 16 | Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward . |
| 17 | An alternative route to reach the square is to go right along Via Unione , then first left into Via Arcimboldi and left again into Via Lupetta to reach Piazza Sant' Alessandro . |
| 18 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 19 | We have no way of telling whether a simple Menuetto marking by Haydn or anyone else indicates that a movement is to go slow , fast or somewhere in between . |
| 20 | If you have cavity wall insulation as well , the only way you can test for its effects is to go away for a while , to a house without sources of formaldehyde . |
| 21 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 22 | The alternative to digging up a road is to go underneath it , where circumstances permit . |
| 23 | In the enterprise zone on the Isle of Dogs , the Canary Wharf commercial project — costing between £3 billion and £4 billion private-sector investment coupled with some £250 million public-sector infrastructural costs , and providing over 5 million square feet of office accommodation — is to go ahead . |
| 24 | They may need one if Charlton 's long-awaited return to their famous old ground , after seven years in exile , is to go ahead against Portsmouth on Saturday . |
| 25 | And it is becoming clear that the company will need to raise new capital if the second phase of its development , a theme park called Disney MGM Studios-Europe , is to go ahead on schedule . |
| 26 | Since the pipeline will cost $1 billion , such private capital is essential if the project is to go ahead . |
| 27 | If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead . |
| 28 | If production is to go ahead at all there has to be some minimum level of cooperation between management and workers , and workers require some autonomy if their initiative is to be counted upon . |
| 29 | We have a right to say that , if such a major project is to go ahead , we should not — as the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) said earlier — settle for whatever is on the table , but should ensure that it is the right project and that the correct amount of money and no more should be spent on it . |
| 30 | We 're go entering proposing to enter into legal agreements as well as planning conditions if it is to go ahead . |