Example sentences of "[adv] [det] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously that 's in general terms as a matter of principle .
2 So that 's for total pocket money three hundred and sixty .
3 And er one of the ways you can use is er National Savings Income Bonds , er which are er okay , but they 're , the trouble is they 're at a variable rate , so at the moment they 're paying seven percent , so that 's on National Savings Income Bonds , so that that person would get seven hundred a year at the moment gross , and of course er you do n't need to t to fill in an R eighty five for that type of investment because it 's not a bank or building society account .
4 So she 'd have one pound forty left so that 's in five Ps .
5 So that 's within six hours you would have worked your way through more than half of your compliment of armed officers ?
6 so that was like one week
7 It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet .
8 Perhaps this is of particular importance when considering the more informal pedagogies which have played a major part in teaching activity since the late 1960s .
9 In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers .
10 I think the reason the British like it so much is for one thing it is normally sunny , there are some shots outside when it is rainy and overcast , but it comes across as bright and cheerful and it is an ideal sort of world .
11 But I think we 'll update not so much is over public authorities would probably take your advice , but I 'm thinking of people who are not public authorities who might in a way suffer , that your advice may cause them some expense , and they might choose to delay it , and well I am guilty we ca n't afford to do that this year , so it never gets done .
12 Oh well this is for different kinds of metal you see
13 Increasingly these are at two levels : general service specifications which apply to all contracts and individual service agreements for particular specialities and services .
14 While the vast majority of those in work claim the relevant personal allowances — such as the single person 's or the married man 's tax allowance — even these are of most value to high earners who are able to set the allowances against the top rate of tax for which they are liable .
15 Sometimes that is in unusual conditions ; in 1991 the airline set a record by cramming 1,086 people into a Boeing 747 during the emergency airlift of Jews from Ethiopia .
16 The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to .
17 Sometimes this was with good reason .
18 Unfortunately these are in great demand and not everyone is able to take advantage of them .
19 Although this is certainly borne out by the example of Nizan himself who experienced a degree of mistrust from within the ranks of the PCF as a consequence of his petty bourgeois class origins and schooling , ultimately this is of secondary importance compared to Nizan 's overriding reason for being in the communist party in the first place .
20 The incorporation of visiting and casework into the administration of the juvenile exchange system not only reflected the continuation of both the practices and the perspectives of the reforming middle class , but also , and ultimately this was of greater importance , it altered the nature of the age relationship , certainly in the degree to which volunteers were in contact with young workers .
21 In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands .
22 There were two reports of two together , otherwise all were of single birds .
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