Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since alimenta are clearly fungible objects , it is quite enough for judgment to be given in a sum of money , and no doubt this ( as the simpler course ) was what was done . |
| 2 | Graham Tennant , 81 , was cured of cancer because a scanner machine at the South Cleveland Hospital identified a kidney tumour early enough for action to be taken . |
| 3 | Serious Koi-keepers should have such a system installed as a matter of course , for if a fish falls sick in winter it will need to be gradually warmed up until its immune system again begins to function , and until the water temperature is high enough for medication to be effective . |
| 4 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 5 | Equally , landfill will continue to be an important part of our strategy , not least because there are more opportunities annually for landfill to be created , as more sand and gravel continues to be extracted and landfill sites filled . |
| 6 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 7 | Campese admits faults of his own , mainly that he talks too much and occasionally , though this he would admit only under threat of being lectured by Carling , out of turn . |
| 8 | A further facet of " rationality " applied to housing design was the assumption that a house was efficient if it was small enough in size to be cleaned by one woman . |
| 9 | It is an additional fact , too important in practice to be called incidental but not necessary enough in theory to be called inevitable , that these causal arrows have become bundled up . |
| 10 | The division of labor develops as there are more individuals sufficiently in contact to be able to act and react upon one another … |
| 11 | For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) . |
| 12 | So in order to be true , Rabbit 's statement must be correlated with what in the circumstances it says it signifies ( namely honey ) . |
| 13 | The pains themselves , since he is aware of them only in order to be assured of his sovereignty , remain on the boundaries of an awareness always centred on his own reactions to them . |
| 14 | This accumulation of nonsense is expressed in dreams which are created only in order to be forgotten . |
| 15 | I rather like to think of myself as one of those old retainer figures that you find in Shakespeare , trusted servants or common soldiers , unremarkable in themselves , but loyal in their allegiances , sadly wise but powerless to prevent calamity , useful only in knowledge to be passed to others or sometimes trusted with the guardianship of a precious child , the redemptive agent of unhappy kingdoms or unhappy kings . |
| 16 | Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services . |
| 17 | Elected government is constantly in danger of being discredited by episodes which expose its relative impotence compared to these , great agglomerations of private and unaccountable economic power . |
| 18 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 19 | This proposes , in essence , that Iraq should get out of Kuwait straightaway in return for being left alone afterwards . |
| 20 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |
| 21 | ‘ We are making it a centre where all people can come together without fear of being forced to convert to any particular denomination . |
| 22 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |
| 23 | Vincent Hickey is already under observation after being discovered with slash wounds in his cell at Long Lartin jail near Evesham . |
| 24 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 25 | That for Paul has been the gift of revelation , as the most significant turning point of his life , away from self to be moving now towards God . |
| 26 | Because the maintain that you need to le , a certain amount of time away from work to be able to cope with the situation that you 're in , and you 're , you 're not going to be at your best at the time when they want you there . |
| 27 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 28 | I was just in love with being in love , you know what it 's like , I loved the image of myself being in love in that kind of careless , easy way . |
| 29 | The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire . |
| 30 | The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized . |