Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] be [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 2 | So much so that they are seen as ‘ natural . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a bonus to have your papers delivered , but my newspaper boy , like all others , had perfected the art of cramming them in the letter box so that they were shredded as you pulled them inside . |
| 4 | This morning the sky was blue with powder-puff clouds and the sea sparkled so that he was dazzled when he looked at it . |
| 5 | Mhm yeah and erm that kind of thing comes into it so that I was wondering if there 's any way of er kind of y'know and what y'know where 's that something about changing changing changing changing rooms somewhere ? |
| 6 | If doubt can be turned destructively against truth so that it is dismissed as error , doubt can also be used constructively to prosecute error disguised as . |
| 7 | One positive approach to the acceptance of other special equipment is to explain its use to fully sighted pupils , let them see it and use it so that it is regarded as something of interest to everyone . |
| 8 | What happens if the income is paid to a person resident in the United Kingdom and it is paid so that it is received as taxable income in the hands of that beneficiary ? |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you think , in the circumstances … perhaps if you were to write when you get home … |
| 10 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 11 | So if you 're saying if say it was a railway where the gradients are very not very steep at all . |
| 12 | and especially if you 're cooking as well . |
| 13 | Yeah together and I 'm wondering whether we could put them in together if we wanted a sixteen . |
| 14 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 15 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 16 | Therefore the structures seen in ( 1a ) are acceptable ( where boldened material = expanded dip ) : whereas the structures seen in ( 1b ) are debarred : The treatment of these expanded dips is very plausible since it shows that the distribution of elements within the verse-line can be derived from phonological behaviour : verbal prefixes , for example , are exempted from the constraint on expanded dips , just as they are labelled as extra-metrical in word-stress derivations . |
| 17 | ‘ Metalscape ’ captures the POD venom with a massive thump — the song 's arrangement lets the lyrical flow build and build until , just as you 're wondering if Jim Steinman is in the house , the whole thing falls back and gently rises again in an enchanting manner . |
| 18 | Just as I 'm wondering if I have time to nip across to silence it , there 's a burst of shouting that nearly jolts it off the table . |
| 19 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 20 | For many older people in our study the process began as soon as they were registered as unemployed . |
| 21 | Second , according to Adomnan'ś Life of Columba , Oswald is said , reputedly on his own testimony , to have had a vision of St Columba on the eve of the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ , and as soon as he was established as king he sent a request to Columba 's monastic foundation on Iona among the Dalriadic Scots for a bishop , receiving in due course Aidan ( HE 111 , 3 ) . |
| 22 | A room which is thoroughly comfortable when it is felt to be simply " untidy " becomes uninhabitable as soon as it is perceived as " dirty " . |
| 23 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 24 | She knows she could have pointed out how troops from India fought alongside the British in the war , or that she was born in that far-off , exotic setting , Middlesbrough General Hospital , and was indeed just on her way home but he was drunk as well as ill-informed , so it hardly seemed worth it . |
| 25 | Education and , to some extent , housing , were allocated only limited support , partly because they were seen as dominating mainstream local-authority expenditure . |
| 26 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 27 | The book was an immediate success , not only for its sexual interest and its association with the notorious Maundy Gregory [ q.v. ] , but also because it was seen as introducing a new mode of biography . |
| 28 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 29 | Wigan rugby league , they do a very good physio now and he was saying when he was Leigh , he was with Leigh rugby league first of all , they had players in their second team and it was their sole intention |
| 30 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |