Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no coincidence that the subject refers to an inanimate being in all five sentences where only to is appropriate ( ( 14 ) and ( 17 ) — ( 20 ) ) . |
| 2 | The whole place has got an air of being run down , and county council , I think to be honest , would quite like it to fall down , or just to be able to develop the whole site . |
| 3 | Run up two dozen stairs or more without being breathless at the top . |
| 4 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 5 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 6 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 7 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 8 | He had said that just to be polite . |
| 9 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 10 | A NEW study of insulin-dependent diabetes in identical twins has brought doctors closer than ever to being able to predict its development in people thought to be at risk . |
| 11 | The frequency changes as the train passes and the high note is when the train is coming towards us and the low one when the train is going away , and you get the same effect with light except that instead of being high and low it 's blue shifted if the object is coming towards us and red if it 's going away . |
| 12 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 13 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 14 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 15 | Parties , on the other hand , are the indispensable means for achieving or retaining power and thus for being able to implement and administer , over long periods , complex social policies . |
| 16 | It was felt that high concentrations would be more likely to cause direct stimulation of the enteric endocrine cells and thus to be effective . |
| 17 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 18 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 19 | While this sort of dissatisfaction was being aired , the Manpower Services Commission , established in 1974 as an offshoot of the Department of Trade and Industry , was becoming increasingly important in the training of the young unemployed : the education service seemed more and more to be poor , mean and irrelevant when contrasted with the up-to-date and positively useful service of training . |
| 20 | Pray that God would inspire leaders to be bold and also to be flexible in the area of finances . |
| 21 | Canon Elvy encourages the churches to respect European values and also to be careful in distinguishing between the terms ‘ communication ’ , ‘ publicity ’ , ‘ image-building ’ and ‘ information ’ . |
| 22 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 23 | So this notion of the evidence of one 's senses is held by empiricists to be basic in epistemology , and also to be basic in the theory of meaning . |
| 24 | Although I had n't had as many fish as the bait fishers I was very pleased with the success and the quality and also with being afloat at sea in such idyllic circumstances . |
| 25 | And as is now widely recognised ( see Thomas Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ) , scientists , like other thinkers , tend to get stuck in particular conceptual frameworks , and hence to be blind to possible alternatives . |
| 26 | In fact , the skin is the body 's largest eliminating organ weighing about 3 kilograms , and far from being delicate , it is dynamically hard-working . |
| 27 | Far from being inclined towards self-righteousness , the Pharisees taught ‘ Be humble before all men ’ , and revered their teacher Hillel for his extreme humility ; and far from being judgemental , they urged ‘ Do not judge your fellow man until you are in his position ’ and ‘ Always judge others by the scale of merit ( that is , charitably ) ’ . |
| 28 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 29 | And far from being luxurious , it had all the style and panache of a Formica worktop . |
| 30 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |