Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before .
2 The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before .
3 So of course , after that , your uninsured , which is absolutely true , but at the same time , erm , you 're really just bringing forward the pay-out when it 's needed most .
4 That a large and heterogeneous society like the United States has maintained just two parties for almost its entire history suggests that the job of aggregation has been performed admirably , but it must be remembered that in the United States these interests are really only aggregated once every four years , just long enough for the parties to select their presidential candidates and fight for their election .
5 Accounts are no longer controlled so the system has broken down , so says the auditor general Sir John .
6 Well , Mr Chairman , I think er , you know , it 's all right putting forward a budget like this , but there 's only one person who got paid for it , and that 's the general public .
7 The program is so well designed even a child could look up all the information needed , not only on how to plant a tree in the garden , but on which type , shape , name etc .
8 Walking : With over 80 km of marked paths , there is plenty here to keep even the most ardent of walkers entertained .
9 It 's a ( 90 ) ninety-acre helicopter repair base which is no longer needed now the Cold War has ended .
10 All-over repeat patterns are very rarely repeated exactly the same on each row .
11 If a canoe capsizes or sinks because it was manifestly badly built then no further explanations are required .
12 Fortunately for him , he was very soon offered instead the chair of Arabic in Cambridge .
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