Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're doing this and they seem to be doing it quite unstressed . |
| 2 | This is I think there is an administrative question how we handle this and it seems to be running very well . |
| 3 | The excessive leniency of the law was indicted frequently enough , especially in the wake of the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 and what appeared to be a monster ‘ crime wave ’ among the very young . |
| 4 | First of all you have to be unemployed and you have to be black or Asian . |
| 5 | ‘ The party needs a period of serious reflection about what went wrong and what needs to be done . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the op went wrong and I had to be readmitted . |
| 7 | The computer was twenty thousand years old and it wanted to be friends with me ! |
| 8 | yeah west side is very popular and it tends to be the area where we get the older properties as well so that 's encouraging |
| 9 | Right the body surface at birth is wet and therefore cools quite rapidly so they 've got big surface area and they 're born wet and they have to be dried off . |
| 10 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 11 | Clearly , the structure and mode of operation of mixed professional — paraprofessional teams will vary from one setting to another and it needs to be acknowledged that in a variety of situations it would be an inappropriate social service practice model . |
| 12 | And this is why I say it 's personal and you need to be discussing this with the people you share your lives with , you really do , because it 's important . |
| 13 | The club has restarted for 1991 and everything seems to be going well . |
| 14 | The brief glimpse the signalman gained of the stranger was not sufficient to give a good description except that he was male and he appeared to be carrying a bag . |
| 15 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 16 | The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years . |
| 17 | And just before it 's too dark and they have to be shut up . |
| 18 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 19 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 20 | But , when you consider that seeds of F1 geraniums cost 20-30p each and they need to be sown in a heated greenhouse in January or early February , plants are a better buy . |
| 21 | A friend of mine sends things like that and they got ta be and the proofs have to be sent . |
| 22 | Th the reality is that elsewhere in West Sussex erm the business allocations are erm reasonably generous or indeed slightly over generous and er therefore er overall the concern i is very much reduced erm but it might also be just worth mentioning that erm although er there is clearly an opportunity for this committee , this planning authority , the strategic planning authority to , to question figures of this nature and to challenge local plans if they are significantly adrift erm that has to be done in the context of the the local plan enquiry by er in the form of an objection almost and past experience has been that the inspectors and the Secretary of State have allowed a certain amount of leeway depending on the erm proportional er deviation from erm th the figures that were in the structure plan and depending on what is happening elsewhere and on the state of the economy and whilst it would be something which erm it was possible to prepare a case for erm i it is o on , on the balance of erm er the various things that are , that are taking place in West Sussex that the recommendation i is , is put to you that and it seems to be the reasonable course of action , particularly bearing in mind the downturn in , in er erm the er business activity and the er amount of developments taking place . |
| 23 | Ordinary pantiles abounded in eastern England where commerce with Holland was strong and they began to be manufactured in Norfolk around the turn of seventeenth century . |
| 24 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 25 | Do you know , but you have to be so quick and you have to be precise and you must know that that 's what you want . |
| 26 | Some of the forty-three police units now have visibly autocratic chief officers who consistently spell out their public accountability yet pursue very personal perceptions of what they consider to be disorderly and what needs to be controlled , and such constructions of reality generate systems which enforce power differently from force to force . |
| 27 | The haunting intensity of Johnny Marr 's echoey guitar cut across a slow paced rhythm to create a sense of evil and Morrissey 's line , ‘ I am human and I need to be loved … just like everybody else does … ’ , only succeeded in adding weight to the darkness . |
| 28 | Afterwards Hirst said : ‘ My goals ratio is very satisfactory and I hope to be in competition for a place in the next England squad . ’ |
| 29 | For most of those in political life , the existing pattern of local government ( through which numbers of politicians , particularly in the Labour Party , had graduated ) was quite satisfactory and there seemed to be little point in tinkering with it . |
| 30 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |