Example sentences of "[adv] be [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go .
2 The final reason for ignoring human actors can only be that they do not matter .
3 It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed .
4 Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough .
5 Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier .
6 The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said .
7 Er I mean it could just be that they do n't like it , so anything which they do n't like is grating or
8 Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about .
9 If they say no , it might not be because they do n't like the sound of it but because their lists are already full and they are unable to take on any more .
10 The other reason why women should organise and educate separately is because we have more important work to do than to have our attention and energy continually claimed by men .
11 You have to erm spend progressively more because it , it , it , it just is as you say much much harder to get down .
12 Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday .
13 Nevertheless , the strategy is placing renewed pressure on LAG : ‘ Lignite Action 's position has always been that they do not want to allow any form of boreholing or test-drilling by the company because this will give them a foothold into the area and once in , it will prove more difficult for them to be ousted again ’ .
14 Perhaps part of the fascination of movies has always been that they trigger off so many memories but what is interesting about so much film-making in the 1920s is that movies are so closely associated with that age of the masses that had come at the end of one century and the beginning of another .
15 No my philosophy with customer relations has always been that you do n't give somebody a refund , you give them some tickets to fly again so it 's keeps them flying
16 Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about .
17 And no doubts , never any doubts at all , that men thought as he would have them think , and would always be as he had always known them .
18 Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material .
19 So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing
20 Think the eggs probably are but I do n't think the whole lunch is yet .
21 It may also be that they did not want to listen to difficult questions we wanted to put . ’
22 What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way .
23 Erm as far as mannerisms are concerned , the only one I picked up was that you say okay quite often .
24 I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you .
25 Can it really be that you do not remember ? ’
26 What we should expect though is that it comes back down to around the three point five mark for the year .
27 My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions .
28 My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions .
29 So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . "
30 The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back .
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