Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 2 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 3 | And the child storms off in fury because you do n't understand , and because this activity you billed as ‘ fun ’ has suddenly ceased to be any fun at all . |
| 4 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 5 | The riff at the beginning of This Charming Man has just got to be one of the best guitar riffs ever ! |
| 6 | Huge sums will soon have to be spent to relieve road congestion ; persuading a proportion of the public to travel by a convenient alternative has already proved to be cheaper than building more roads in many areas . |
| 7 | Mr Kohl 's glossy coating of the bitter pill of economic union undoubtedly won him votes , but the coating has already proved to be thin . |
| 8 | To apply these characteristics as the criterion for dismissal or refusal to employ is to apply a gender-based criterion , which the majority of the House of Lords has already held to be unlawful direct discrimination in James v Eastleigh Borough Council [ 1990 ] 2 AC 751 . |
| 9 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 10 | Mr Bell , aged 39 , of Oakley Gardens , West Auckland , said he has always tried to be polite during his 17 years as a driver . |
| 11 | Although their roles are less well known , complex I subunits also appear to be involved in the functioning of this complex . |
| 12 | Another reason why language teaching has traditionally tended to be atomistic and bottom-up is that it has followed the historical development and procedures of linguistics . |
| 13 | The language used in Synod has often proved to be less than gentlemanly . |
| 14 | This section on internal buildings has necessarily covered a considerable amount of very detailed information and has inevitably had to be selective . |
| 15 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 16 | It has regularly proved to be one of the most popular options . |
| 17 | McCarley and Hobson , in an analysis of Freud 's psychological theory , have pointed out how deeply was his psychology informed by these neurological assumptions , which subsequent science has frequently shown to be wrong . |
| 18 | There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . ) |
| 19 | Particularly with the the s the strong belief that the flats were going to come down which has subsequently proved to be true . |
| 20 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |
| 21 | At the same price as your traditional cab and twice as speedy , riding pillion has never looked like being such a good bet . |
| 22 | The aristocracy , for its part , has never needed to be convinced of the importance of not working . |
| 23 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd kinda hoped to be alone here tonight . |
| 25 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 26 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 27 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 28 | The question which teachers rated their pupils as having had most experience with was 112 - : 7 ; 71 per cent of pupils in the sample were said to have had " frequent experience , including this term " of this kind of item . |
| 29 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 30 | sensitively to consumers , individualizing service provision and engaging with the local community , but the going often proved to be tough . |