Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 2 | You and Sarah are missing so much . |
| 3 | Jack and Ann are expecting about 60 guests . |
| 4 | His instructions to Blamey were to do even better for his eldest daughter . |
| 5 | In some regions , difficulties arose because some of the colleges comprising RMCs were offering considerably more management education than others , because of status difference between institutions , and because of internal stresses within colleges , some of which accorded management education a higher priority than others . |
| 6 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 7 | Pat is keeping remarkably cheerful despite being in a lot of pain . |
| 8 | Jez Hall 's tenor sax sound is lighter and warmer than Bobby 's providing just enough contrast in their many solos but also doubling mellower than before but still with a crying , keening sounding that taps enormous depths of feeling . |
| 9 | Lucy 's looking very nice in a very nice skirt today . |
| 10 | This month Ken is feeling rather cramped , due to his temporary computer set-up . |
| 11 | As Eurodisney opens in France , and the Minister of Culture Jack Lang is elevated yet higher by President Mitterrand , Michael Ignatieff looks at a stinging attack on French cultural politics |
| 12 | We were all very sorry to learn that Jean was taken seriously ill just prior to the Christmas holiday resulting from a brain haemorrhage . |
| 13 | Eleanor was assuming too much in taking on the role of possessive girlfriend . |
| 14 | Anyway erm Richard was feeling quite relieved about the |
| 15 | The most that can be said with any certainty is that the revolt was led by two families who were to play a great part in the next generation of Aquitainian politics , two families with whom Richard was to become very familiar : the house of Lusignan and the house of Angoulême . |
| 16 | The Sharjah Cup one-day tournament in Dubai involving West Indies , India and Pakistan was delayed yesterday due to the death of the United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister , Sheikh Hamdan . |
| 17 | It was just a feel-good song , a piece of ephemera , and Lucy was feeling surprisingly good . |
| 18 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 19 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 20 | At one point he said David was joking too much and I was too flippant . |
| 21 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Michael Lipman brought a management contract — this was when we were in L A and David was doing so much cocaine . |
| 22 | In the early sixties , the United States was spending roughly 2¾ per cent of GDP on research and development ( R and D ) as compared with 1.5–2 per cent in continental Europe and Japan . |
| 23 | I do n't think Zbigniew 's marriage to Tatyana was going too swell at the time . |
| 24 | FOR one of the world 's most beautiful actresses , Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts was looking pretty ordinary yesterday . |
| 25 | Travis was looking quite downcast , she saw , and she knew the reason for that . |
| 26 | Devices like Hewlett-Packard 's DeskJet are becoming very significant in the office market just as the first wave of page printers is due to be pensioned off |
| 27 | Millwall are going well this season but on recent form there 's nothing in it |
| 28 | Before the Heineken National League kicked off in September 1990 , BLAINA were installed as 2–1 favourites to win the Second Division . |
| 29 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 30 | The SAF is expecting nearly 200 British racers , as well as a strong field from Europe and North America . |