Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 2 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |
| 3 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 4 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 5 | At a media briefing in the House of Commons , the five main polling organisations — Gallup , Harris , ICM , NOP and MORI — reminded political editors and other interested journalists how accurate they had been in the past . |
| 6 | Instead , it reflected how successful they had been in aggressively promoting their rather indifferent work . |
| 7 | Later in the post it should be established how successful they have been in doing so . |
| 8 | The follow-up survey planned for Spring 1985 will test just how successful they have been in job search . |
| 9 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |