Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 2 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 3 | Perhaps he had been surprised to be greeted by an adult who did n't either admonish or cross-examine him . |
| 4 | So he had been churlish to Carol after all . |
| 5 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 6 | It is all part of gathering more power , whatever may be said by the Government about his intentions int into the hands of Whitehall and into the hands of ministers who at the moment will be Conservative , but very shortly I think are likely to be Labour . |
| 7 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
| 8 | Formerly he had been prone to pessimism , full of gloomy prognoses about over-population and wars , which would prevent mankind from ever fulfilling its dream of colonising other planets . |
| 9 | Why the hell could n't you have been nicer to her , Mother ? ’ |
| 10 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 11 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 12 | Now she wants to sell it , but the buyer must allow them to play on and as yet nobody 's been prepared to . |
| 13 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 14 | Again he had been shocked to the heart , could not speak , sat struggling to order his thoughts . |
| 15 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 16 | ‘ Tottenham is a big , big club and wherever you go is likely to be a step down . |