Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
| 2 | Such events occur once every 30 years on average in our Galaxy , and a good proportion are not visible optically because of intervening matter . |
| 3 | Courageous behaviour and dogged endurance are more believable here than in many other types of adventure-story . |
| 4 | ‘ According to the CBI , manufacturers are more optimistic now than at any time for almost five years . |
| 5 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 6 | While the Panel does not fall squarely within this category of body , its activities are considered by the courts to be sufficiently similar so as to be subject to judicial review . |
| 7 | then you know I 'm not sure either whether of course I mean one would hope that erm the institute would have certain requirements about the erm practical period that you |
| 8 | The jokes are copious , hit-and-miss and very broad ( the credits include a ‘ collapsing dunny specialist ’ ) : we 're in Life of Brian territory , which may be more congenial here than in America , where the film failed to reproduce its massive success on home turf . |
| 9 | The jokes are very broad ( the credits include a ‘ collapsing dunny specialist ’ ) : we 're in Life of Brian territory , which may be more congenial here than in America , where the film failed to reproduce its massive success on home turf . |
| 10 | Whatever the case , it is not only governments in the Middle East that appear to be more pragmatic now than in the recent past and although anti-TNC rhetoric is still common for public consumption , the line is substantially moderated in regulations for and negotiations with the TNCs . |
| 11 | But in 1914 I wanted to be purely English so as to be able to offer myself untainted to Lily . |
| 12 | The proofreading seems not to be as accurate here as in the rest of the book , and there are some flaws in the details concerning the manuscripts and the discussion of the settings . |
| 13 | Some of the scenes in the film of people at play are almost comical now because of their seriousness , though harsh lights and cameras could hardly have been conducive to a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 14 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 15 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 16 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 17 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 18 | Making certain you and your family are financially secure now and in the future is so important . |
| 19 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 20 | There are observations of the House of Lords in Hunter v. Hunter to the effect that accordingly the transfer is wholly void even as between the transferor and transferee . |
| 21 | The revenue is so desperate now because of this change in banks and building societies have left people not knowing what the situation is , and er there are millions , I 'm , I 'm not exaggerating there are twelve million , over two million pounds is being spent by the revenue on a new tax-back advert , sorry I did exaggerate , the idea is to remind about ten million people on all , on low income , that they could claim back tax which has been deducted from taxed savings . |
| 22 | The decline of marriage , increasing cohabitation and extra-marital childbearing and the emergence of new family structures arising from greater divorce , remarriage and lone parenthood has meant that the traditional image of the family , of a married couple with dependent children , is less common today than in the past . |
| 23 | The father of modern psychology , Sigmund Freud believed ‘ … psychiatry is not possible near or above the age of 50 ; the elasticity of the mental processes on which the treatment depends is as a rule lacking — old people are not educable . ’ |
| 24 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 25 | It is conformally flat everywhere except at the boundaries of the interaction region where there are impulsive gravitational waves that may be considered to be generated by the collision . |
| 26 | ( I think that Bread Not Stone is more hesitant here than In Memory of Her : she speaks of there being one vision , whereas in In Memory of Her she appears simply to suggest that in our suffering and our courage we are one with first-century women . ) |
| 27 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 28 | Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on . |
| 29 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 30 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |