Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 2 | The sets that Were built showed another advantage of conservatism in that , despite some initial trouble with 60MW sets , they settled down to be more reliable than the engineers counted on . |
| 3 | An older history brought this idea forward to a new era : we were brought up to be simply grateful for being alive , guilty at the fact of our existence . |
| 4 | I I do n't think myself and I still have an open mind and I do n't think that the Labour case erm adds up to be perfectly honest . |
| 5 | Although his father had acknowledged the son in due time — when the boy grew up to be phenomenally educable — he had never married Miss Chib . |
| 6 | So , when I wanted to grow slightly tender plants in my none-too-mild Midlands garden , I decided to bring them up to be as tough as possible . |
| 7 | ‘ And they 're growing up to be quite American , ’ Nellie went on . |
| 8 | On atomic and subatomic levels seemingly solid matter is seen to be small particles within particles which eventually turn out to be just pure energy . |
| 9 | On Boxing Day , which was really hot , a party of us drove to Riverton and had a good laugh about Riverton Rocks , which were given maximum rating ( 3 stars ) in the Guidebook but turned out to be just rocky outcrops offshore . |
| 10 | Marcus joined the line to collect a towel which turned out to be just big enough to wrap around and tuck in . |
| 11 | On closer inspection it turns out to be also contextual , dictated by what is going on in the mind of the sender and the assumptions he or she makes about what is going on in the mind of the receiver . |
| 12 | Using the first generation Ortho-Chiron ELISA , which allows detection of antibodies against recombinant non-structural hepatitis C virus peptides , 58% of Italian autoimmune chronic hepatitis cases , defined as reported above — that is , positive for ANA-H and/or SMA-AA — turned out to be also positive for anti hepatitis C virus . |
| 13 | When I accosted the scoundrel , he turned out to be completely different Colin Chapman , up to his neck in sound bites . |
| 14 | But Morris turned out to be completely uninterested in all three . |
| 15 | They turned out to be practically unbreakable as well as hard-wearing . |
| 16 | It is certainly possible that the distinctions between different types of variable drawn by Dressler and Wodak and by Kerswill will turn out to be methodologically important in as much as they yield new insights into the principles underlying patterns of variation and processes of change . |
| 17 | ‘ It turned out to be pretty energy-sapping record to make , actually , but the last two albums have done pretty well so we had the luxury of doing some hit-or-miss experimentation in the studio . |
| 18 | Somehow him telling that lie that turned out to be nearly true made him feel that it was his fault . |
| 19 | that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted . |
| 20 | I think network marketing I think it I think that turns out to be jolly hard work because if you 're not recruiting it 's the recruitment part of it . |
| 21 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 22 | He seemed genuinely grateful for his aunt 's hospitality , and set himself out to be exceptionally charming to Doctor Bailey . |
| 23 | The whole room has the feel of a place set out to be conventionally acceptable and — if such a word is appropriate in this Castle — almost friendly . |
| 24 | This is especially true when the information given by the patient turns out to be astonishingly accurate , as on numerous occasions . |
| 25 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 26 | Hahnemann 's conception of disease being due to a combination of intrinsic ( inherited ) and extrinsic ( environmental ) factors has turned out to be largely correct . |
| 27 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 28 | Some of the quotes turn out to be particularly apt — ‘ I 'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in' , for example , ‘ Help ! ’ or ‘ Listen , do you want to know a secret ? ’ . |
| 29 | Inputs of cereals and bottling and packaging turn out to be particularly important in employment terms . |
| 30 | The particular decomposition ( 10.8 ) , however , does not turn out to be particularly convenient in the construction of explicit solutions . |