Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where ‘ joy-riding ’ is not involved , causing death through dangerous or drink driving is a very serious offence . |
| 2 | The decision to locate an assembly plant at Kalmar was made in 1971 and seems to have been based on the need to expand the production facilities . |
| 3 | If , that is , we survived the cold and managed to avoid being hurled by the wind into that bottomless pit at the base of the waterfall . |
| 4 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 5 | Utterly different from that silly , crushy feeling she had had for Tom before , when all that had happened was that she had felt miserably self-conscious and tongue-tied in his presence . |
| 6 | All that had happened was that her safe shell was broken and if it ever healed it would be filled inside with sadness . |
| 7 | Of the few remaining large houses , Mere House which faces the pond is possibly the oldest , thought to be Elizabethan and reputed to have been visited by the ghost of a monk . |
| 8 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 9 | Those that did rally were special situations , such as Cable & Wireless which jumped 7p to 649p after a 7% profits rise at half-way . |
| 10 | ‘ The place is like a morgue most of those that did come are moaning bastards . |
| 11 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 12 | There are few forested areas of the world that remain untouched by human activity and those that do remain are unlikely to survive intact in the future . |
| 13 | There is not an abundance of thatched cottages in the wolds , but those that do exist are real gems . |
| 14 | For example the so-called ‘ Dark Age ’ of European history , following the decline of the Roman Empire , has a dearth of written records , and those that do survive are questionable . |
| 15 | Those that do come are small pallid workers , inching their way in long columns across the floor and down the shafts to collect the moist mud that is needed for further building work . |
| 16 | The judgments were very short and appear to have been extempore . |
| 17 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 18 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 19 | This volume also has appended a poem ‘ On the Ruins of St. Austin 's , Canterbury ’ , which was published in the Kentish Gazette of 9 July 1774 and said to have been written sometime after Dixon was seventy-three years old . |
| 20 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 21 | Victor Goblin and Alien & Unwind have been swallowed up . |
| 22 | Erm the element of control side of it , is extremely frustrating and have have been hinted at by previous speakers to see what are in effect regular and truly massive retail operations going on without development control , without the development of any kind of highway controls which is a county council matter is fully my argue frustrating . |
| 23 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 24 | There have been a number of recorded cases of children living in the wild and presumed to have been nurtured and reared by animals ; such children are often referred to as feral ( wild ) children . |
| 25 | Interior Minister Col. Manuel José Antonio was arrested on Aug. 11 for questioning in connection with an attempted coup uncovered on June 24 and said to have been planned for June 25 ( the 16th anniversary of Mozambique 's independence ) . |