Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But unfortunately I did remember afterwards , having erm berated myself for this that he is actually based in London at the
2 It is clear that it is still campaigning to have licensed growth promotions reinstated for beef cattle .
3 This was first flown in 1979 , but Bill found himself hanging upside down when the brakes seized on landing , and was reluctant to repeat this so it is now owned by Disney Industries , featuring in a recent film The Rocketeer .
4 At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule .
5 An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash .
6 Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing .
7 There 's one at Kentish Town , a businessman who smokes big fat cigars like this and he 's half finished them and he throws them on the train and when the doors open no-one clears out the way and he steps on and he 's such as bastard
8 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
9 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
10 This is adequate if one is simply trying to calculate who is receiving certain benefits , such as old-age pensions , from official sources , but if we are seeking a realistic conception of who is and who is not a dependant or a net contributor to the economy in a broader sense such definitions are not helpful ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 13 ) .
11 And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat .
12 First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond .
13 THIS POOR CHILD IS NINE YEARS OLD AND SHE 'S NEVER SEEN A BARBIE DOLL !
14 It 's certainly inhabited by some and it 's certainly inhabited by some .
15 Fish is very popular and it is still preserved and smoked by traditional methods .
16 The project pointed out that an audit is easier if it is carefully planned and responsibility for particular aspects is shared out .
17 And then you 'd have fifty hundredths and it 's still look like a half .
18 The denotational semantics of unc map each process into a domain with a partial order according to which one process is greater than another if it is better defined , or more predictable .
19 Evaluation is still rudimentary but it is increasingly accepted that with services as massive and costly as those described we must develop techniques for measuring their impact and comparing the success and failure of different approaches .
20 Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it .
21 It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes .
22 As with all COBUILD materials , the emphasis is on English as it is really used today , drawing on the evidence of the COBUILD corpus devised by Professor John Sinclair 's English Language Research team in the University 's School of English .
23 The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed .
24 Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter .
25 Indeed , the research evidence is so strong that it is now reflected in the high incidence of work teams , ‘ away days ’ for functional groups and courses in team-building .
26 But the prohibition in the Act is so complete that it is commonly ignored .
27 The communications are such that it 's like living in a village .
28 Indeed , the pervasive appeal of the term ‘ bottom line ’ ( profit after all deductions ) is such that it is often used as the ultimate test of success in any aspect of society ; in sport , how well the game is played is irrelevant , what matters is the final score — the bottom line is winning or losing .
29 ‘ The Commission itself has placed a great emphasis on the promotion of milk and it is ironic that it is now undermining that investment with a proposal which could result in further reductions in the intake of milk by those who need it most ’ .
30 I am delighted that it is now providing a three-day project at Sir Thomas Picton 's school in Haverfordwest , around its production of Don Pasquale .
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