Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb base] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been much talk that Rangers have the title sewn up but we still have 58 points to play for and that makes it ludicrously premature to suggest that the destination of the title is cut and dried , ’ said Brady . |
| 2 | ‘ You and Eddie , well , you 're both proof that miracles happen ! |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 4 | Of course , some clients too would read the Daily Mail and the Daily Express , in which case they would be as loathe as dealers to reveal the fact for similar snob reasons . |
| 5 | I think I have narrowed down the possible causes to be either hogweed or nettles and I am in the process of removing these . |
| 6 | The Bishop of Kensington declared , ‘ Gaiters stopped being any use when bishops gave up riding horses as their mode of transport . ’ |
| 7 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 8 | We now need to consider margins where the movement is predominantly transform and plates meet along transform faults rather than at subduction zones or along collision boundaries . |
| 9 | It is optimistically forecast that women will become freer from household burdens as a result of these technological innovations . |
| 10 | It is surely time that students , as adults in part responsible for their own higher education , were formally accorded the rights and academic respect they deserve , and the social relations between teacher and taught were made more equal . |
| 11 | That 's without decorate and icings and what have you |