Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 2 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 3 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 4 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 5 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 6 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 7 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 8 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 9 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 10 | Delight enough to be sure , but the pleasure was greatly amplified when it was recognized , almost immediately , that the harpsichord bore an uncommon resemblance to the instrument shown in the famous Mercier portrait of Handel ( see cover ) . |
| 11 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 12 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 13 | On feet that tried desperately to be silent , Belinda crept away , not stopping or turning round until she reached the looming mass of the house . |
| 14 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 15 | Business letters do not need always to be impersonal and formal . |
| 16 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 17 | Supporters of deposed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia were reported still to be active in western Georgia around Zugdidi ( near Abkhazia ) , where there were sporadic attacks and fighting between " Zviadists " and government troops . |
| 18 | If you want to know more about being healthy , join a local Look after yourself ! class . |
| 19 | About the worst error you can make in an appraisal interview , apart from getting into a direct confrontation and violent argument , is to slip imperceptibly into being defensive . |
| 20 | It is wholly inappropriate to begin to teach adults to learn how to read by using children 's story books when in reality they will be able to relate more to being able to read those by-laws of the state which prevent them from voting . |
| 21 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 22 | As er you 've not even come close to being involved in anything like it . |
| 23 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 24 | Those of the low Arctic ( within a boundary similar to that of Aleksandrova , discussed on p. 85 ) appear mainly to be boreal alpine species that have spread northward . |
| 25 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 26 | Therefore this was a battle now as he understood a battle , however mangled beforehand by being half-decided at a distance . |
| 27 | These two items appear simply to be ghoulish trophies , since they sit on a table with other specimens of internal organs . |
| 28 | So , logical and impressive as the associate flower learning of honey bees seems , these hard-working insects appear simply to be well-programmed learning machines , attending only to the cues deemed salient by evolution ( and then only in well-defined contexts and often during precise critical periods ) — and then filing the information thus obtained in pre-existing arrays . |
| 29 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 30 | ( The knife was a rather blunt penknife , not the sharp sheath knife Nick had hoped for , but it was better than nothing , and Carrie tried hard to be pleased with her Bible because Nick was grinning so slyly . ) |