Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your net margin on sales is 10 per cent and the discount offered for early payment is 2.5 per cent , you are effectively giving away a quarter of your profit . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the banks are slowly slipping over a cliff . |
| 3 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 4 | I know of one Free Range Producer in East Anglia whose eggs are only collected once a week . |
| 5 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 6 | They have even been known to raid the picnic basket if I am overly engrossed over a little ‘ hot spot ’ I have found . |
| 7 | Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst . |
| 8 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 9 | So er we 're still hovering around a hundred but instead of being four over the hundred the present total is ninety six by my reckoning . |
| 10 | But you 're still missing out a big , very important part of the graph , because for a lot of its range it actually , you know , looks something like well what would that look like ? |
| 11 | We 're also giving away a cosy pair of totes Toasties — unique mittens for feet , with treaded soles — and a pair of gloves to keep you both warm on your flight . |
| 12 | thank you Denis … two season tickets to the manor for you Mr. Mullins … we 're also giving away a United shirt apiece to six runners up … and they 're Lee Lowe … |
| 13 | And I think they 're actually picking out a particular area for a report is is not necessarily good practice. , erm I think we can identify er those areas piece by piece we will go through them , they can be brought forward to a variety of areas . |
| 14 | People are always asking why a particular village or farm is sited where it is and so , sooner or later , the landscape historian will have to give this question some consideration . |
| 15 | Those being raided argue that , with hard core porn gradually disappearing , police and customs , worried about cuts in jobs and funding , are deliberately whipping up a new moral panic . |
| 16 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 17 | All the fish are eating and growing and they look perfectly healthy — but they are still flicking just a much as before . |
| 18 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 19 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |
| 20 | Blind are also bringing out a video . |
| 21 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 22 | Clubs , however , are also paying out a lot more and transfers surged to an alltime high of £75m , a staggering 63 per cent increase on 90–91 . |
| 23 | ‘ We are also putting forward a national launch and will be shortlisting from a creative and consultative point of view to promote Westcountry to advertisers . ’ |
| 24 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 25 | ‘ We are really building up a European company , through common systems , by giving people a common language , and giving them a common experience . ’ |
| 26 | You are really giving away a part of yourself . |
| 27 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 28 | The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month . |
| 29 | Scientists at Liverpool University are now drawing up a breeding programme for the UK herd . |
| 30 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |