Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s got quite a dry sense of humour and was probably ‘ joking ’ about the Norwich match … and lets face it it was a bit of a horror show defensively ! |
| 2 | To show this , consider an individual firm which-is operating in perfectly competitive labour and product markets and suppose that all jobs and workers are homogeneous . |
| 3 | Bah á'; ís do not disbelieve in any previous founders of world religions . |
| 4 | Is John MOtson Eric cantona 's agent ? he cant talk about his Gallic flair without sounding like he s become sexually aroused . |
| 5 | Credit to Whelan — he s played well enough , but strikers work in pairs … |
| 6 | But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger . |
| 7 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 8 | He has always produced the goods when he s come on . |
| 9 | These criticisms seem valid and if NAB is to cope successfully with its daunting task of planning public sector higher education and negotiating with the University Grants Committee , then it would benefit from having more academic expertise and more representation from industry and the professions . |
| 10 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 11 | She 's ten years old and she 's sucking up her clothes . |
| 12 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |
| 14 | but life generally is helping Well that 's nice |
| 15 | has resigned her position as Editor 's Assistant ( Thank you for all your hard work ) and we are delighted that is helping temporarily . |
| 16 | Cumbria have a wide ranging programme including the Pilkington Roadshow in October at Workington , Egremont , Kendal , Keswick and Kirkby Lonsdale whilst David Pears is helping out at Workington on September 2nd and Wade Dooley at Kendal on September 15th . |
| 17 | A production assistant hot-footed it round to Camera 3 's position and came through with : ‘ Jeez , boss , three 's crook — he 's fell over in the heat . ’ |
| 18 | She says he 's er he 's fell over in the , you know , and er , he he 's al , he were always running , he gets on left side onto us runs to this corner , calls out to the missus |
| 19 | Oh it 's fell out ! |
| 20 | So that 's what , that 's the way I 'm hoping that we can proceed , as I say , yes with your assistance and then if we can get through that business , then equally tomorrow morning , we 'll be doing a similar thing , we we 'll issue another revised programme which will er take in some of the outstanding stuff that 's fell off . |
| 21 | Although we have argued for the view that law is differentiated rather than monolithic , we have to stress that there do exist common factors and interrelations , both within specific arenas and within the legal system as a whole , that have to be considered . |
| 22 | But where , on the one hand , the hierarchy of the chivalry is systematically catalogued , from dukes to mere gentlemen , the commonalty is differentiated only to the extent that a passing reference to ‘ the chief of theis folkes , as the substantiall marchauntes , the welthie grasiers and farmers ’ acknowledges the existence of sub-species . |
| 23 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 24 | THE SENIOR Strathclyde education official who faced calls for his dismissal after linking ‘ genetic factors ’ to the school performance of black and Asian children is to retire early on Friday . |
| 25 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 26 | It is a fact that Windows is catching on , probably because a graphical environment , although slower , at the moment , than a DOS character based environment , can be a very comfortable way to work , intuitive even . |
| 27 | In the experience of the author , the idea of the scheme is catching on very widely , and the theories running through it are rubbing off on traditional conveyancing practice in the commercial area . |
| 28 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 29 | Yamaha staff will be making a return visit to the region to discover how the Japanese style of music teaching is catching on in the North-East . |
| 30 | ‘ Must be getting too old for this globe-trotting lark , or else my mis-spent youth is catching up on me . |