Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door had a black painted cast-iron knocker , brass numbers and handle that were polished each week , and when I became old enough to be trusted with this job , I felt very grown up . |
| 2 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 3 | I want this not to be happening , I ca n't believe what I 've done . |
| 4 | However , the picture in the United States alone looks consistent enough to be significant . |
| 5 | Many dictate that you must give up your smelly , messy , untrained child-eater ( their opinion , not ours ) before you may be considered lucky enough to be offered lodgings . |
| 6 | On the contrary ; corduroy and other imitation velvets , like velour and velveteen , were considered all along to be false finery , puffed up and pompous . |
| 7 | Yet even in 1360 the French royal council did not feel weak enough to be obliged to accept the terms ceded by the captive king in London . |
| 8 | It seemed odd not to be surrounded by concrete , but the jungle-dense trees and vertiginous inclines were hardly less oppressive . |
| 9 | Melody still came to the farm to help out with dairy work , but these days , much to Seb 's relief , she seemed content just to be near him , making no embarrassing demands . |
| 10 | and one of those is sixteen year old Rachel Bradridge from Gloucester … she 's the all england junior champion and is reckoned good enough to be a future olmpyic skier |
| 11 | True the first formers had had to go to bed an hour earlier , but they all voted it was worth it , Gwendoline felt vicious about the whole affair , she 'd determining not to be put off by her first day there . |
| 12 | Job satisfaction simply had n't increased ; in fact , people seemed surprised even to be asked to consider that devolution and job satisfaction might be related ! |
| 13 | In time , the results may look coherent enough to be defined as Majorism . |
| 14 | They seem low enough to be part of the North Downs . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't look old enough to be the mother of two great big boys . |
| 16 | In the canteen queue , Marcus was startled to see that the two men in front were holding hands : a lumbering man in his twenties and a boy who did n't look old enough to be in prison , who was as pretty as a girl . |
| 17 | You do n't look old enough to be married . ’ |
| 18 | I repeated — and , to cover my astonishment , found I was saying , ‘ She does n't look old enough to be married ’ . |
| 19 | The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case . |
| 20 | The biggest initiative has been the virtual nationwide provision of two-year part-time course for full-time teachers leading to Certificates in Education ( FE ) , but there has also been a growth in Diploma and higher degree courses and there seem likely soon to be additional initial BEd . |
| 21 | Whatever happens to IBM , the world and European computer markets seem likely still to be dominated by the United States and Japan . |
| 22 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 23 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 24 | Radical views like this seem unlikely ever to be accepted by the cardinals who dictate the dominant conservative teaching . |
| 25 | The the facilities the kind of things I mean what what kind of you know the ki erm is erm Would you like more there to be more friendly people or not , do you or do you think there 's enough ? |
| 26 | I think I got seventy just to be sure . |
| 27 | — Manjiku specially likes to eat women : juicy , dark women full of blood , the way we are when we get old enough to be mothers . |
| 28 | Goals for the future include trying some more dragon boat racing and getting fit again to be selected for next year 's rodeo World Championships in the USA , purely , she says , because it is fun and she wants to paddle abroad , though with a wry grin she concedes that maybe the spirit of competition also burns within her ! |
| 29 | Then , hoping he could remember enough of the ancient language of chivalry and selecting his words with extreme care , he said , ‘ Good Trees , we ask your assistance , ’ and saw the Elms nod to one another meaningfully , as if they had been expecting all along to be asked to do something for the Humans . |
| 30 | ‘ Being a communicator , ’ explained Lydia , ‘ I find it dashed annoying not to be able to communicate . ’ |