Example sentences of "be [adj] and [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By saving regularly , you are ‘ pound cost averaging ’ , that is buying more units when prices are low and less when they are high . |
| 2 | with all this you arguing and telling me I 'm wrong when I 'm right and right when I 'm wrong . |
| 3 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 4 | It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so . |
| 5 | Mind you it 'll probably be fine and anyway as someone said it 'll be good to widen the group a bit more and launch some journalistic careers into the bargain ( -> ) . |
| 6 | ‘ If we can have a full house this time that will be great and even if the crowd does n't scare them , it will certainly lift us . ’ |
| 7 | She did not fear the rats ; a certain set of mind would keep them away from her in small furry terror , and as for the police-gangs , she could be awake and away before ever they reached her . |
| 8 | Probably not , even though the next couple of years will be tough and even though Mr Bishko has a habit of losing senior managers with an abandon bordering on carelessness . |
| 9 | Check that I 'm alright and then when I do or suggest you you get the hump . |
| 10 | … Under such a rule , would-be critics of official conduct may be deterred from voicing their criticism , even though it is believed to be true and even though it is in fact true , because of doubt whether it can be proved in court or fear of the expense of having to do so . |
| 11 | ‘ Under such a rule , would-be critics of official conduct may be deterred from voicing their criticism , even though it is believed to be true and even though it is in fact true , because of doubt whether it can be proved in court or fear of the expense of having to do so . |
| 12 | He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year . |
| 13 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 14 | The radial shields are small and longer than broad . |
| 15 | Often , if they have a disposition to broader problem-solving , the search consultant can provide views on several issues : the potential organisational structure ; how the individual would fit in ; the likely scope of his or her responsibilities ; if the tasks he or she will be set are manageable and possibly whether candidates can be found in the market who meet a particular specification ; whether the search can be a UK-based search or needs to be international ; whether any of the top candidates can be attracted for the remuneration or does the remuneration of the senior team need reviewing ; is the nationality of the candidate important ; could a woman do the job ; what happened to the last job holder ; did he or she move on to a bigger job or was he or she fired , and was that person successful in the role ? |
| 16 | Lobbies were unheated and so if you hung your coat up wet then wet it stayed . |
| 17 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 18 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 19 | Their origins were separate and later than those of their people . |
| 20 | This strategy was transferred to the successive discrimination , and for at least some of the animals allowed immediate solution of that test — an animal that had learned to turn away from white in the left arm , say , would already be equipped to solve a successive discrimination in which it was rewarded for turning left when both arms were black and right when both were white . |
| 21 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 22 | His shoulders were wide and even though he was sitting , Kate saw he was a large boy . |
| 23 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 24 | If you are female and less than one stone overweight . |
| 25 | In criticising the text-as-product view of cohesion in text , Morgan ( 1979 ) argues that we see a link between a particular pronoun and a full noun phrase in a text because we assume the text is coherent and not because the pronoun ‘ refers back ’ to the noun phrase . |
| 26 | It is clear that a waiver is of no effect unless it is unequivocal and only where the representee acts on it to his detriment . |
| 27 | And the English reader who does not understand that the punning on ‘ Talbot ’ is painful and all but hysterical , like the punning of Shakespeare 's Hamlet , does not understand Pound at all . |
| 28 | No , it 's confidential and properly cos she 'll want some of it back . |
| 29 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |
| 30 | We must know whether this company is insolvent and therefore whether it should continue trading . ’ |