Example sentences of "[adv] be [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a fortnight ago I had a cataract removed , but there must have been more to it than that , because not only am I startled by the brightness of things , but the vision in that eye is practically perfect , so I am not wearing glasses most of the time , though for faint or small print ( not piano music : hooray ) I shall have to get some more specs . |
| 2 | So are you helping with the catering side or are you running a cake stall ? |
| 3 | So are you sitting in the front or at the back ? |
| 4 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 5 | So how long were you working in the Llandudno power station ? |
| 6 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 7 | But he 's now an associate fellow at Templeton College in Oxford … so is he viewed as the enemy within . |
| 8 | When we turn to the uterus , not only is it situated in the abdomen , but it is also confined to women ; and even in our enlightened days , it is hedged around with taboos . |
| 9 | Not only is there change in the hardware but the revolution in the low-cost market , desktop publishing if you will , has spurred the customer to demand more in terms of typography and flexibility , not to mention compatibility . |
| 10 | Not only is there dispute about the long-term effects of new technology on skill level , but there is also , closely bound up with this issue , the question of how jobs of the future will be organised . |
| 11 | She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house . |
| 12 | Aye the , many of the reasons for these being over are nothing to do with the efficiency of the design office , they 're due to the efficiency of the s |
| 13 | Since the Revolution in 1974 , women have gradually become more involved in the decision-making processes , and no longer are they confined to the teaching and nursing professions . |
| 14 | No no because the bags have already been you know on the back of the compost plant time sheet , you 've already got that those bags have actually been wasted . |
| 15 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 16 | Thus was he deprived of the free manpower which had been his and without which began a slow decline in the market gardening business , the hay and straw , and then even the bakery . |
| 17 | Thus was I blinded to the fact that he is , in fact , the quintessential heavy metal arsehole . |
| 18 | Or , even more radically are we faced with the need for an entirely new concept of reality ? |
| 19 | Only now are we returning to the age-old problem of nationalism to which my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) referred . |
| 20 | Never before were they faced with the threat of losing substantial numbers of accounts . |
| 21 | It sounds naff , but it really was something coming off the street at a very cult level . ’ |
| 22 | The dark stormclouds overhead were nothing compared to the ominous light now shining in Julius 's eyes . |
| 23 | Here 's somebody going to the dentist in this book . |
| 24 | The main problem here is what to do with the existential quantifier . |
| 25 | For instance , how widely were they accepted as the legitimate kings of France ? |
| 26 | Then are we going to the pa wallpaper shop ? |
| 27 | But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement ? |
| 28 | How are you getting to the Galleria ? |
| 29 | Er , how are you fixed for the beginning of next month ? or the week after that ? |
| 30 | Sure , how are you doing with the , the drink . |