Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other type of expressive effect found in contexts where only make is possible can be illustrated by ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) : ( 154 ) … beautiful canvases of mountains and forms . |
| 2 | The following examples , where only make is possible , are more difficult : ( 157 ) … the famous Howe sewing machine . |
| 3 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 4 | The people who decide whether to believe them or not have been able to check their own stocks quickly , to make sure no bombs or material are missing . |
| 5 | We will be recording er , talking to individual groups that are interested in , in er expressing their views , particularly groups that perhaps have been involved with the protest , and er are you know , not happy with , with some aspects of the motorway . |
| 6 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 7 | ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that generally speaking are good for Britain |
| 8 | By moving indoors , several airframes could commence restoration programmes that before had been difficult , or just very cold ! |
| 9 | It was utilised to explore the characteristics of the information objects to be covered by the IPS , eg determining the form of the information to suit the users ’ needs , and assessing whether or not the objects that then existed were adequate . |
| 10 | Few private tenants in the past have appealed against rent levels for fear of landlord harassment and eviction but the limited controls on rent that currently exist are likely to lessen still further when the Housing Act takes effect . |
| 11 | But after Dave Bassett 's side had clung to the 2-1 lead provided by John Gannon 's opening strike of the season , the only first that actually mattered was United 's position in the Second Division . |
| 12 | These leaders have tried the forceful suppression of such activities , but inevitably have failed to maintain the state thus established and eventually have been obliged to retract . |
| 13 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 14 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 15 | In punting , too , I have had a tendency to reach for too much length and so have been prone to slicing my kicks . |
| 16 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 17 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 18 | Resting , sleeping and generally vegetating are obvious ways of unwinding . |
| 19 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 20 | Similar Trommelbass accompaniments but filled out and not figured are rare in the published works of Eckard , whose left-hand parts , except for some long stretches of Alberti bass and other broken-chord patterns , are notable for their variety of texture . |
| 21 | And not forgotten are great series from the past — the Can-Am challenges and the Australian Tasman Cup . |
| 22 | This quoted the Roman Church 's instructions to its clergy to enquire , during confessions , exactly how , and how often , married couples made love , and alleged that a woman who committed adultery , confessed to it , and was absolved , could thereafter tell her husband that she was and always had been faithful to him . |
| 23 | In fact theatrical imagery is , and always has been derogatory , used to expose human pretence , or the futility of secular life compared to some other existence or system . |
| 24 | The fact that we are here again , just as keen to see the King 's Cross project coming into being , demonstrates clearly that the two schemes are and always have been separate . |
| 25 | In a contestable market , existing firms are vulnerable to entry if they attempt to exploit their market power , there are no sunk costs , and hence exit is costless ; and entrants have access to the same technology and factor prices as incumbents . |
| 26 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 27 | I says the only thing is I says I bring them in and then finishing is closed . |
| 28 | He has that selfishness — it 's not even an honest selfishness , because he puts the blame on life and then enjoys being selfish with a free conscience . |
| 29 | The existence of a relationship between increased remuneration and profits on the one hand or growth on the other is capable of less impressionistic assessment , and indeed has been subject to detailed research . |
| 30 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |