Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well , well er well it is , because I mean so many go for the sa da damn same job do n't they ?
2 The Trinidade data display less pronounced offsets despite having high U/Pb , consistent with the younger age of the lithosphere at this location ( Fig. 1 ) .
3 I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be .
4 Alongside their traditional functions ( which grow ever harder to explain to a public caught up in the excitement of recent developments ) , they offer a general reassurance against unpleasant surprises ; a brake on events which could otherwise outstrip our power to control them .
5 Most film crews want as little to do with their subjects as possible , yet the Ashleys immediately-became involved in our lives and we in theirs .
6 Recent decisions as to whether to grant leave to go to judicial review , and High Court determinations , suggest that much hinges on the court 's interpretation of statutory duties and points of law .
7 Well , it would depend but I mean there are various of nuisance from noise in the flats , or anywhere where you 've got a lot of people put together all living in a s fairly small area .
8 The examples of external critique I gave earlier show how this works in practice , but other more pointed examples can easily be identified .
9 There are still blemishes , subtly dished characters show quite visible stepping in the vertical plane but the overall results look excellent .
10 I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals !
11 Applying the usual procedure to obtain this in another frame we obtain so that transforms as a rank 2 tensor .
12 They realize that they have problems and but they seem so willing to stand by each other and the the spirit which I 've noticed is very h
13 Johnston and Pattie ( 1988 ) claim that people no longer vote so much according to their class , or social , position , but rather are increasingly referrent to their spatial location .
14 Why is it that the Americans seem better able to cope with the idea of a flexible retirement age ?
15 Yet it is the children themselves who often seem better able to deal with the situation .
16 Despite the evidence of more than seventy years of clandestine activities by communists , many Western ‘ experts ’ seem psychologically unable to enter into the minds of Communist leaders .
17 Globe artichokes look particularly attractive filled with this bacon and pepper stuffing .
18 Growth , standing crop and metabolic rates of lichens are difficult to measure , but these unusually tough plants seem particularly well preadapted to polar conditions .
19 We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it .
20 I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child .
21 They are still refusing to pay for licences , or to pay fines , and they seem quite prepared to go to Mountjoy Jail in a spirit of martyrdom .
22 And yet the beautiful creatures seem quite happy to swim around the rivers of their home , and venture into the pools that are left as the rivers dry up in summer — pools that are full of ‘ savage ’ piranhas .
23 There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at .
24 ‘ You know all about me , yet you seem curiously reluctant to talk about yourself . ’
25 Well you sound pretty organized compared to some of them .
26 For example , our face and how we look very much depends on the relative growth of the different parts .
27 Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them .
28 In this case the message sent on the SWIFT system from the US bank to the UK bank is that your ( NOSTRO ) account has been credited by us with $10 000 , in return pass on this amount to the named beneficiary , the UK exporter .
29 And she was saying , cos her friend works in a bank and she 's just taken a mortgage on because they get so much knocked off their mortgage do n't they , if you work in a
30 you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so
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