Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 2 | For whatever reason , the French failed either to withdraw their forces from what were intended as border strongholds or to reinforce them sufficiently to be able to withstand attacks from Vietminh forces which could now be launched at divisional strength trained and commensurately equipped by the Chinese communist armies which had reached the frontier the year before . |
| 3 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 4 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 5 | This should be accurate enough for the findspot to be plotted on a map and for someone else to be able to find the location . |
| 6 | I 've been worried out of my head for so long it was a tremendous relief to me just to be able to talk to someone . |
| 7 | Sickle cells are blood cells which instead of being round , are sickle , or moon-shaped . |
| 8 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 9 | I am a little unhappy about this , because there seem to be such close resemblances between the two plates , that I would not wish them ever to be far apart . |
| 10 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
| 11 | Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy . |
| 12 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 13 | Nor did I meet you here to be angry with you , I hope I have not so offended you that you refuse to officiate and give us your instructions here tomorrow |
| 14 | There are a lot of fat people , of course , who quite like being fat . |
| 15 | I do n't think you 'd get many volunteers to join you either to be honest . |
| 16 | For these to be effective the patient would need to practise them repeatedly to be able to bring about fairly rapid relaxation when tense feelings were beginning to occur . |
| 17 | The Railway Children , after completing their educations and entering the professions , took early retirement to Glastonbury , where they ran a museum devoted to railway memorabilia , This enables them also to be active in the campaign for penal reform . |
| 18 | Erm , she is not something simply to be afraid of . |
| 19 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not that , ’ Fabia began , certain in her heart that she had now scuppered every last chance of that interview with Ven , but with Cara having more than enough to worry about with Barney still so poorly , not wanting to give her something else to be upset about . |
| 21 | No one else to be afraid of . |
| 22 | She 'd believed herself still to be battle-scarred by her broken engagement and now was immune to such flirtation , but this man planed flirtation to a smooth , silky art she found it difficult to resist . |
| 23 | Not tightly enough to restrict the blood flow , but sufficient to make her long to be able to stretch . |
| 24 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 25 | Few of the friends who had written complimentary tributes to Smart at the time of his release from Dr Battie 's asylum expected him ever to be able to write again . |
| 26 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |
| 27 | But I think good parents need the perspective which allows them sometimes to be selfish . |
| 28 | The task for the journalist and broadcaster is to recognise and conform to the valuable discipline of the law , while at the same time understanding it sufficiently to be able to call the bluff of those who seek to exploit it to suppress important truths . |
| 29 | Is it enough to be competent and competitive in the music market ? |
| 30 | This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra , and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone — its head . |