Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a delight to have Bishop Harris with us once more — he has only missed being present twice in 14 years . |
| 2 | Donald Harris wants the law changed so compensated is automatic . |
| 3 | Three of the four he had interviewed personally had been evasive , or told outright lies . |
| 4 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 5 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 6 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 7 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 8 | Maple has a much tighter grain than mahogany and breakages are consequently far less common , so whether a neck like this needs further strengthening is debatable . |
| 9 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 10 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 11 | I think my husband 's hand has now stopped being numb from my squeezing ! |
| 12 | In the period that I mentioned there have been substantial further job losses in the coal industry and some further job losses in the steel industry . |
| 13 | Those involved in the scene understand limits and respect boundaries — they know that people who do n't know where to stop are dangerous . |
| 14 | The ice champion , who has not had a lover since his AIDS was diagnosed , has never denied being homosexual . |
| 15 | THE Tories are said not to have been able to get in right in 13 years . |
| 16 | But he had gone out of the front door , banging it , leaving his shoes on the table which she 'd always believed was bad luck . |
| 17 | Up until now the only badger I 'd ever seen was dead on the side of the road . |
| 18 | There is no reason to believe that an increasing disparity between the standards of morality and behaviour which one has grown up to believe were true and right and those displayed and legitimated in the surrounding society can not of itself provide the ground for commitment to a movement of moral reform . |
| 19 | The question that confronted them-the question they had met today to answer was simple : should they attempt to harness his talents or should they destroy him ? |
| 20 | ‘ Additionally , you 'd recently started being kind , or tender , ’ Luke resumed disgustedly , rejection suddenly blazing in his eyes . |
| 21 | Very likely he was simply lying on his bed in a state of dejection and , perhaps , of remorse for his massacre of " the possessions " which was now generally thought not to have been necessary . |
| 22 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 23 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |
| 24 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 25 | ‘ The rumours that Madhuri will shortly settle down as a housewife and give up acting are pure lies , ’ said Sanjay . |
| 26 | Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them . |
| 27 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 28 | Although the cultural traditions and education and social systems in OECD member countries vary there has been wide agreement about the importance of transition and the nature of the process . |
| 29 | We do not use them only because those we have employed hitherto have been sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 30 | Health chiefs called in to investigate were astonished to find piles of plastic puppies , all modelled on the loveable star of the famous Andrex TV adverts . |