Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | These had perhaps once been outhouses which had long ago fallen down . |
2 | What is clear is that for [ Whitehouse ] and others like her , there is a determination to restore a Christian culture to Britain , and in that battle the greater availability of sexually explicit cultural forms , the easier access to abortion and divorce , the legitimation of homosexuality between consenting adults and so on are developments which must at all costs not only be stemmed but at some ill-defined date in the future actually reversed . |
3 | The wine glasses , tumblers , pipes and so on were articles which each painter handled regularly in the course of day-to-day life . |
4 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
5 | So too is materialism which is their reason for positing it as a rightful successor to idealism as the method for understanding history . |
6 | Not only are defendants who are committed for trial in the Crown Court at risk of heavier penalties than magistrates are likely to impose ( see below ) , but the increased numbers are also likely to add to the already serious problems of delay in the Crown Court to which we have already referred . |
7 | Not only is Windows itself configurable , but most of the applications that we use under Windows can also be tailored to your own tastes . |
8 | Not only were nobles who defected from the support of Otto of Brunswick punished by sentences of excommunication , such as Otto 's brother , Henry the count Palatine , and the duke of Brabant in 1204 – 5 , but also the ecclesiastical hierarchy who as temporal as well as spiritual princes might face revolt on their estates as well as censure from ecclesiastics within the diocese or province . |
9 | Should not just be managers who identify what issues will be consulted on . |
10 | The identity and classification a child chooses may not be ones which are obvious to an adult observer , and may not even be ones which the child himself is able to verbalise . |
11 | Amongst those who seem to be ‘ changing ’ the most rapidly are people who deserve to be called nothing short of unprincipled opportunists . |
12 | Managers will not usually be specialists in accounting or finance , for instance , but will more likely be generalists who can rotate between positions ( Kagono et al. , 1985 ) . |
13 | Something that came up yesterday was interview you had , and Graham to make the comment , and he , he was trying to make the point that he , what he said , what he recommended , would have to be taken up by the council , and actually by the council when it happened . |
14 | However , she concedes that there will probably always be people who choose to work outside the mainstream , though they may not be formally organised or funded in the future . |
15 | He said yeah , I said oh thank Christ for that so he said oh , he said nearly all the cars are bolted now , the only thing , the ones that are n't bolted on now are Fords they still weld all |
16 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
17 | ‘ Somewhere out there are people who may or may not know of my existence , people I can call my own — ’ |
18 | Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate |
19 | My how like is Mary she looked so very pretty . |
20 | On the whole , on the principle that the people who are not covered by union membership very often are people it 's very difficult to organise . |