Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am rather surprised that he made it public , but we will be taking it very seriously — have no doubt about that — and it will be raised at the Anglo-Irish Conference meeting in London . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 3 | About 30 of the shops are now profitable , according to Mr Bishko , but not profitable enough to cover overheads — which are rather higher than he had anticipated . |
| 4 | Cutter-bar and rotary mowers are rather unsuitable because they leave the swathe lying in the direction of cut with heads and butts mixed ; it is then difficult to pick up , sort , and bind the sheaves . |
| 5 | There is no great demand for pen computing from Western users of mid-range systems , but things are rather different if you happen to be Chinese — and 1,200m people in the People 's Republic alone are — and are constrained to use thousands of ideographic characters , and Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has gone to IBM Corp for an OEM agreement on its AS/400 computers and plans to fit the terminals with its PenDOS and Handwriter Recognition System software and integrate the machines into its pen-based computer product line being designed for China ; Communication Intelligence plans to market its Chinese pen-based office automation system through partnerships with the Chinese government , with the first out in 12 months . |
| 6 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 7 | This is not strictly so , however , since if the husband takes the car for work , the remainder of the family ( which could include one or more members attempting to reach work or services themselves ) are effectively marooned until he returns ( Moseley 1979a ; Phillips 1981 ) . |
| 8 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 9 | In reality they are mercilessly small when you realize for how long they have to be eked out ! |
| 10 | Most of these are presumably extragalactic but they include the pulsar PSR1706–44 , although this was not recognized at the time . |
| 11 | Tags such as Modern , Post-Modern , High-Tech or even Neo-Classical are wholly redundant when you stare at this subtopian , A-road architecture . |
| 12 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 13 | They are most malicious when they prey on liars , murderers and thieves , for they hate to see injustice . |
| 14 | In the wild the newly hatched chicks are most vulnerable when they emerge exhausted by their struggles to dig their way out of the sand . |
| 15 | little support are most affected and we need to er , go back to what Kathleen was saying about education , we need to help young girls get self-confidence , more se , coping skills to deal with these pressures , but also , as other people have said , we need to get the government to look at the fact as , that encourage women to keep smoking and address those issues as well . |
| 16 | The two factors working together are most apparent when we experience a sudden shock . |
| 17 | Today , Pip Seymour 's articles are most informative and I love the reproductions of his work . |
| 18 | On the question of the public conveniences erm I feel there 's been a lot of discussion about this , this kind of issue and I feel that what we 've got now is a good agreement erm , we 've got still providing a good level of service with attendance at the central I do n't like referring to conveniences , at the time that they are most needed and I think that now I would n't like to see us go without that if we do n't really need to . |
| 19 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |
| 20 | These musical phrases give continuity to the action and are most valuable because they help both performers and audience to understand how moments in the story or theme affect the players . |
| 21 | If a raised body temperature promotes alertness and staves off feelings of fatigue , high body temperatures are obviously disadvantageous when we wish to get to sleep . |
| 22 | You are obviously tired and I imagine that nothing would make you admit it . |
| 23 | Analysts at Smith New Court , the City stockbroking firm , said yesterday : ‘ The costs are much higher than we thought . |
| 24 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 25 | ‘ Masklin used to believe — I mean , Masklin believes — that humans are much brighter than we think . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They are much smaller than I expected ’ is the usual remark from people seeing puffins for the first time . |
| 27 | The arms were granted to the princess on her marriage to Prince Leopold of the Belgians and are especially rare because she died just a year later in childbirth . |
| 28 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |
| 29 | The perils of introducing a new foodstuff are far greater : we are highly conservative when it comes to food . |
| 30 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |