Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening to break the peace refrain from doing so … |
| 2 | ‘ every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening the peace refrain from doing so ; and those reasonable steps in appropriate cases will include detaining him against his will . ’ |
| 3 | Not all women consider themselves to be beautiful , or indeed wish to be so in conventional terms . |
| 4 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 5 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 6 | with black fillings , and long ratty hair that always seemed to be just coming out of a perm . |
| 7 | If firms are to collude tacitly , they must somehow choose prices and outputs which are sustainable by a credible punishment strategy that also has to be tacitly agreed upon . |
| 8 | We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ . |
| 9 | Those two are n't high enough see that really need to be up there does n't it . |
| 10 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 11 | After adaptation , things that initially appeared to be off to one side appear directly ahead again . |
| 12 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 13 | Dolphins were often cruelly maimed or killed during such research , but , thankfully , today 's studies tend to focus on animals in the wild , and mostly aim to be as non-intrusive as possible . |
| 14 | In the evening , body temperature is being reduced and so tends to be slightly higher than required . |
| 15 | Starting at 14–1 and not expected to be fully fit after his long lay-off , he won easily . |
| 16 | It 's not going to be as accurate and not going to be as easy to read it off but |
| 17 | He raised that study to the rank of a single comprehensive and independent science , and thus deserved to be reverently regarded by posterity as the eponymous hero of all the long line of later scholars " . |
| 18 | The LFA-3 binding site spans the diagonally opposed CC' and FG loops and thus appears to be relatively symmetrically located on the GFCC'C sheet . |
| 19 | They were both gazing out of the window like homesick boys , as if desperately wishing to be elsewhere . |
| 20 | At the first meeting of the new cabinet , Bell was surprised and mildly irritated to be repeatedly told , first by Meese and then by the president , of the need for teamwork . |
| 21 | The problem arises : why is religion so widespread in the evolution of humanity , and still continues to be so in the modern world ? |
| 22 | They are usually much more expensive than timber types , and also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties . |
| 23 | He 'd taken her out to dinner that very night , and now seemed to be practically haunting the place , and obviously very much in love with her friend . |
| 24 | She thought that perhaps her manner was somewhat too bold for one who so recently had been only a governess , and now wanted to be even less . |
| 25 | At the back of the room , solitary now , and perfectly prepared to be wholly bored for the next hour ( or was it two ? ) sat Mr Aldrich . |
| 26 | Among the arriving troops , however , Mr Ford noticed several squadrons of lancers trailing the green flag of Islam ; they looked much too well drilled and well equipped to be merely returning deserters . |
| 27 | ( It must be remembered it was still another nine years before women were franchised to vote in Government Elections , and then had to be over 30 ) . |
| 28 | For example , facilities like swimming pools , water sports , chair lifts etc. require maintenance and sometimes have to be temporarily withdrawn from use for such work to be done . |
| 29 | If however we look more deeply into the play between the lines , we notice that the women are not totally fair , and just , and indeed seem to be both dishonest and immoral . |
| 30 | Now , as composers grope towards a language that satisfies audiences and yet manages to be sufficiently modern , Shostakovich 's music sounds at the front once again . |