Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of people think blindness must be worse than deafness but not being able to communicate is really maddening . ’ |
| 2 | And in the general fever for branding schemes OSF is also introducing its own programme for vendors to badge their products ‘ OSF certified ’ . |
| 3 | They boss is just gon na keep sending messages until one finally gets through . |
| 4 | Even dowsing is obliquely referred to in the official reports as ‘ probing with metal rods ’ ! |
| 5 | Some gardeners will do anything to win prizes ( marrows filled with lead shot to add weight , for instance ) , but there 's one show where cheating is positively encouraged . |
| 6 | The breakdown of trust which they effect is graphically represented by Shakespeare , first by the way in which the king 's sons , fleeing the country , are suspected to have been his killers ; second , in the scene where Macduff , who has finally fled Scotland ( his wife and children are murdered by Macbeth in his absence ) , is confronted and tested by Malcolm . |
| 7 | Cooling is usually done by passing the gas through pipes . |
| 8 | The specific question that Aspect , together with jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger , has attacked is commonly known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , the essence of which runs as follows . |
| 9 | ADDS is also previewing a 3270/X programme that provides an X-Window migration path for IBM 3270 terminal users moving to NCR 's System 3000 Unix line . |
| 10 | For example , when you use a flight simulator , the map of the world over which you fly is often stored as a separate data file . |
| 11 | The material being drilled is effectively broken up by the drill bit , and the rotary action of the drill bit is primarily to remove debris from the hole . |
| 12 | The interest earned is normally paid at the end of the period to the respective parties in proportion to the amount of the retention received by them . |
| 13 | Preferably targets should be set for individuals where the bonus earned is directly related to personal effort . |
| 14 | If the lumps are tumours , these are rarely infectious , and the reason why they appear is poorly understood . |
| 15 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 16 | What I do know 's probably distorted , as you told me once in London . |
| 17 | Even if this number could be regarded as reasonably constant throughout the year , it is clear that the group of individuals exposed to the risk of dying is constantly changing . |
| 18 | The study of what people say is ultimately to do with cognition . |
| 19 | A second problem with the idea that everything is determined by a grand unified theory is that anything we say is also determined by the theory . |
| 20 | The alternative they say is just stick to four star . |
| 21 | Again , like the others , what they do and say is significantly determined by a form of self-arbitration . |
| 22 | You know , we 're not direct enough in what we say is actually happening with parish council money . |
| 23 | ‘ Whatever I say is never going to bring him back . |
| 24 | Perhaps EGF is stored in the endothelial cells of the normal mucosa and when inflamation develops is rapidly utilised to stimulate cell proliferation because EGF is cruicial for the change from quiescent cells to the S phase of the proliferative cycle . |
| 25 | The number of candidate words being discarded as too short or too long is quite small , and in fact the number of correct candidates being incorrectly discarded is slightly discouraging . |
| 26 | The rock on which she perished is now looming . |
| 27 | That Mar failed where Monck and William of Orange had succeeded is partly related to military factors , but also reflects the fact that neither the domestic political crisis was so severe nor popular disaffection so widespread in 1714 – 15 as it had been in either 1659 – 60 or 1688 – 9 . |
| 28 | County planning officer , Dave Bown , explained in a report to councillors that supplies of construction material to the Aberystwyth area come from Hendre Quarry , Ystrad Meurig and Glan Rhyd Ty Noeth , near Capel Bangor , but Glan Rhyd Ty Noeth is almost exhausted . |
| 29 | Similarly discretion not to prosecute is sometime based on grounds irrelevant to our purpose , e.g. that prosecution will cause widespread riots . |
| 30 | Ironically , the power to prosecute is rarely used . |