Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms . |
| 2 | All our work has to be prepared so much in advance , because then all the sets have to be constructed , all the statistics worked out , budgets have to be agreed and so on . |
| 3 | Trouble-makers were visible by reason of their demeanour and I wished to be observed as little as possible . |
| 4 | This is due to be extended later this year , and should form a solid basis for Erato 's planned UK expansion programme . |
| 5 | Now , through the ‘ Choices ’ programme which is operating in three districts and is to be extended considerably this year , we are offering more and more staff the chance for career counselling and support from JS in improving skills and gaining qualifications . |
| 6 | However , spotlights need to be positioned so that light falls in the right place . |
| 7 | her work is certain to be exhibited elsewhere this year , so do look out for it … a real treat not to be missed . |
| 8 | oh he 's , he seems to be grown up all of a sudden |
| 9 | Time and time again your average punter gets ripped off by some incompetent half-wit whose main aim seems to be to sell as many boxes as he or she can . |
| 10 | We ought to be seeking to build on the quite hopeful developments , in the greater Beirut area anyway , over the last few days , but instead we appear to be getting even more dog in the manger in our attitude towards Syria . |
| 11 | She did so and I told her I preferred not to be disturbed again that evening . |
| 12 | PRISONERS of conscience George Anyona , Edward Oyugi , Ngotho Kariuki and Augustine Kathangu were released on bail on 14 February 1992 pending their appeal which is expected to be heard later this year . |
| 13 | The way things look now , Greece 's public sector is not going to be cut as much as it ought to be . |
| 14 | ‘ And is n't it a terrible thing to be bringing even more trouble down upon my head ? |
| 15 | He agreed to hand over ‘ the castles , holds and fortresses of Scotland to the cardinal and the said earls , to cause them to be kept by such as they thought meet ’ . |
| 16 | However , it has to be explained why this should be so , and what an emphatic effect is . |
| 17 | We are likely to be seeing even more of him on television . |
| 18 | The British contributed $5.3 billion to America 's pocketbook in 1990 ( only the Japanese out-spent us ) , and this figure is likely to be beaten easily this year : most U.K. visitors in 1990 were repeat business . |
| 19 | The duchy of Aquitaine was not just the most civilized province in France , it was also a region of great wealth — it would have needed to be to support so much fine art . |
| 20 | Endeavours to explain to a child the reasons for the restraints put upon him , may appear to be setting too much store on his intelligence , but this will not necessarily be so , for there is much evidence that adult training of children is very often obstructive rather than progressive . |
| 21 | Say , for instance that transport costs are high relative to competitors ' , but yet if the enterprise were to be run down this would cause large-scale local unemployment . |
| 22 | They seem to be buying up half Europe … ’ |
| 23 | That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common . |
| 24 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 25 | Stage : All consultations have been completed and the plan is likely to be adopted later this year . |
| 26 | Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years . |
| 27 | It leaves the moves of Neil Pointon and Steve Redmond from City to Boundary Park to be completed later this week . |
| 28 | In what may be the first of several similar moves , Alpha Microsystems Inc , Santa Ana , is to acquire the assets of the hardware maintenance division of MGI Group International Inc , a Los Angeles-based Unix integrator with 294 local service contracts , adding some $1.2m to Alpha Micro 's nationwide annual service revenues ; the acquisition , whose terms were undisclosed , is expected to be completed later this month . |
| 29 | The acquisition , whose terms were undisclosed , is expected to be completed later this month . |
| 30 | I 'm not supposed to be eating very much for lunch so . |