Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I 've got these letters out of here to be honest . |
| 2 | Is the Church to continue for ever to be under-remunerated because just sufficient hear the call ? |
| 3 | I was too preoccupied with what I felt : about the baby , about Graham , about now to be able to visualize the future . |
| 4 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 5 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 6 | Er yeah and if you were a , if you were a rightist cadre that had doubts about all this and actually wanted to go the slow more moderate line , you could also find enough in here to be able to , to sort of curtail things a bit ? |
| 7 | It was far enough from anywhere to be unnoticed , far enough for the loudest sounds to be muffled and lost to passers-by . |
| 8 | In ‘ Barchester Towers ’ though it is actually Dr. Proudie who takes the position wanted by Dr. Grantly , he is made out to be a rather insignificant and weak person whereas Mrs. Proudie is seen at once to be strong and authoritative , too much so , and Trollope makes of her the kind of character a reader loves to hate . |
| 9 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 10 | When her coiffure was dry , Martha saw her small oval face framed by curtains of hair that was stiff and immobile but appeared at least to be straight . |
| 11 | To his straw-coloured hair and blue eyes he added an obvious desire to please , at least to be agreeable , attributes which were rare amongst the Glynns . |
| 12 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 13 | The presence of movement is one of our main criteria for being alive , and yet infant movements appear at least to be random , reflexive and undirected . |
| 14 | We shall also see that certain syntactic rules appear at least to be sensitive to implicature , and that implicature puts interesting constraints on what can be a possible lexical item in natural languages . |
| 15 | If the community of deaf people is substantial , some members of staff should be prepared to learn to sign or finger-spell , or at least to be conscious of the requirements of lip-readers . |
| 16 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 17 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |
| 18 | The best way to promote teacher development may be to expect it , or at least to be careful that one 's actions do not implicitly suggest that one does not expect it . |
| 19 | Ultimately , if it is to count , the independent thought or action has to be offered or at least to be open to others for their evaluation . |
| 20 | For more advanced study , it is important for the reader at least to be aware of these complications . |
| 21 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 22 | Employment Action is by far from being impeccable . |