Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In particular the idea of a ‘ promotion culture ’ which has to be carefully managed is to be explored . |
| 32 | While force and the means of destruction are primarily physical realities , the path to their deployment in the manner we now fear is through the emotions and decisions of beings who are able to achieve a measure of control over their actions . |
| 33 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 34 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 35 | But what I really want is for the book to be read and enjoyed by the people who read the other books . |
| 36 | ‘ What I really want is for us to reach these people before Moscow does : there 's no argument about who they 'll want to pin it on . |
| 37 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 38 | The definition of breakdown now adopted is in line with that used by other companies . |
| 39 | And whether the Oare now gotten is like to prove richer or leaner than now it is , or to continue the same state of goodness that now it is in … |
| 40 | ‘ What I 'd really like is to be a ploughshare . |
| 41 | A further example where executive search firms are often used is in the question of size of business . |
| 42 | TINDAL C.J. : The only question now remaining is upon the demurrer to the fourth plea . |
| 43 | He used to be next door to Ryan 's Son , but now Hopscotch is in Ryan 's old stable . |
| 44 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 45 | But now help is at hand . |
| 46 | What I really need is for ever . |
| 47 | I am ashamed to say that I have heard this said by social workers : ‘ all they really need is to be warm , comfortable and well fed ’ . |
| 48 | Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ? |
| 49 | Some of the later remodelling work was done by Francesco Maria Richini , although what we now see is in Romanesque style , even though it post-dates the period by many years . |
| 50 | A school that can show parents that it is well resourced is at a tremendous advantage . |
| 51 | Well help is at hand . |
| 52 | What is particularly required is for the government to review the rules on benefits paid to people who receive income under therapeutic work schemes . |
| 53 | Of course , if the man is clearly carved from stone then pointing is in order , and if we subsequently discover that ‘ he ’ is an inflatable rubber doll we are suitably embarrassed . |
| 54 | Zell am See is like your best ever beach holiday , but with a lot of extras . |
| 55 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 56 | Yet reading is of vital importance in language learning : it is through reading that children can acquire not only new vocabulary and structures , but a real ‘ feel ’ for the language . |
| 57 | One project being actively considered is on household wealth and inheritance . |
| 58 | Therefore , if the assumption that the speaker is actually cooperating is to be preserved , some informative inference must be made . |
| 59 | The ultimate sanction and one which is most commonly applied is for the mortgagee to sell . |
| 60 | Certainly the simple notion that industrialization altered radically the size of the household can not be correct , since the relatively small change which has actually occurred is of quite recent origin . |