Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised , as I always was at such moments , how slim and small she felt . |
| 2 | She was chalk white , as she always was at emotional moments , but her eyes were blazing . |
| 3 | And at the time I was desperately shocked by it , as you always are by bad notices — you always remember the bad ones and never the good . |
| 4 | Let us ensure that we do not try to make ourselves look better than we really are by humiliating others . |
| 5 | Early models of the cosmos were based on concentric spheres ( they still are in most minds ) . |
| 6 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 7 | The mechanism by which animals might integrate these various events , spread out as they usually are over several sessions of training , and by which the critical conditional probabilities might be computed , are not considered . |
| 8 | Substantially rewarded as they often were from ecclesiastical revenues they constituted only a minor burden on the Crown . |
| 9 | the , the chain sir the chain of logic and of course had it not been with one inter interposing there , had it not been for void restrictions , it would not have written , that 's when they were written , they were written only because of the restrictions that 's what enabled them to be written |
| 10 | Had it not been for seasonal visitors , the list of locally popular dishes would have been depressingly brief ; burned steaks , fried fish , and barbecued chicken . |
| 11 | That means the cooking is even more dreadful than it usually is in these places . ’ |
| 12 | Harry trailed along behind Ockleton , bemused as he always was by beeswaxed pews and glittering plate in what experience had taught him was an irreligious world . |
| 13 | On the other hand , many commentators believed that it would be disastrous for the Republicans to nominate Reagan encumbered as he supposedly was by three disadvantages : his lack of experience of national office , his age and , most importantly , his identification with the extreme right of his party . |
| 14 | It really was about these characters we know on the club scene . |
| 15 | The reason for the decline is not always poverty ( which it often is for smaller farms or those in marginal areas ) but in the better areas is due to increasing agricultural efficiency , and even in the mid-1980s to agricultural surpluses ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 16 | The support they give may sometimes be formal , but it is never sterile or mechanical ( as it often is in industrial societies ) . |
| 17 | And the decision on timing should not be based — as it sometimes is in public libraries — upon reservation pressure from a small minority of the library 's clientele . |
| 18 | How much more tenuous must it therefore be for non-departmental bodies operating at arm 's length from ministers , and which ‘ for most of the time … rub along without much awareness of the Minister and his officials ’ ( Johnson , 1982 , p. 213 ) . |