Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 2 | RARELY are women and men shown in a variety of occupations . |
| 3 | In the latter case , the physical object is passed on ; in the former , all that is passed on are genes that influence the shape of the nose as it develops . |
| 4 | In fact , the only things you are going to lose from now on are weight and inches ! |
| 5 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 6 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 7 | Steve could n't have gone straight out so quickly , it had only been seconds before she had called again . |
| 8 | Within the overall Upward trend there have naturally been fluctuations and current and capital expenditure have not always behaved in the same manner . |
| 9 | It was small wonder that anti-war and pacifist groups flourished in the labour movement of the time , though rarely among seamen and , it seems , hardly at all among their leaders , though initially " hating the Hun " was far from easy , for German seamen had long been colleagues and comrades , not only aboard ship , but also in organisations affiliated to the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 10 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 11 | Happily pictures below are Dulcie and Arthur Maxim . |
| 12 | An unfortunate ornate gilt altar screen obscures the simplicity of the vertical lines of the great eastern apse , but above is visible the mosaic in the conch depicting the Virgin against a gilt background ; below are saints and apostles . |
| 13 | Below are shafts and dosserets which form shallow buttresses . |
| 14 | Then it had all been defeat and misery . |
| 15 | In this sense , then , there have obviously been continents that have been lost — either subducted back into the mantle or fused onto others . |
| 16 | So are Helsinki and Leningrad , and so is Manhattan that sparkled in the dust like a wet finger dipped into the caster sugar of electricity . |
| 17 | ‘ Even so , Demontis is Sardinian and so are Piladu and Scano 's boy . ’ |
| 18 | So are America and the Soviet Union , to the extent that they wasted too much energy signing up local partners for the cold war instead of organising a local peace . |
| 19 | So are nan and granddad totally for the idea and everything and moving now ? |
| 20 | Politeness and truth are often mutually incompatible ( how do we answer the friend who asks whether we like his new hairstyle , for example ? ) and so are politeness and brevity . |
| 21 | Sulzer and Rieter are names known all over Europe , and so are Volkart and Winterthur Insurance . |
| 22 | Patients , especially those with poor vision or mobility , are most at risk but so are staff and visitors to the hospital . |
| 23 | I mean okay so we 're here , but so are elephants and fruit flies and centipedes and tape worms and things erm nothing special about us. erm we 're rather successful right now , but we do n't play any very special role . |
| 24 | So are rocks and the air and other inanimate objects . |
| 25 | They are animals , but then so are insects and so are we . |
| 26 | ‘ Wigan are a high profile side and so are Leeds and I certainly would n't mind a trip back to Wembley , ’ he added . |
| 27 | ‘ Wigan are a high pro-file side and so are Leeds and I certainly would n't mind a trip back to Wembley , ’ he said . |
| 28 | It is not good enough to say that badgers are lovely creatures ; so are foxes and salmon . |
| 29 | I know they are a regular in europe — but so are cork and wrexham . |
| 30 | Not only are wood and other forms of cellulose technically efficient but they are also fantastically successful , judged by any quantitative criterion . |