Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 2 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 3 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 4 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 5 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 6 | Delight enough to be sure , but the pleasure was greatly amplified when it was recognized , almost immediately , that the harpsichord bore an uncommon resemblance to the instrument shown in the famous Mercier portrait of Handel ( see cover ) . |
| 7 | Lexicological units must not only be delimited paradigmatically , that is , within a constant syntactic frame : we want also to be able to say of two occurrences of a lexical form in different syntactic environments whether they are occurrences of the same lexical unit , or two different units . |
| 8 | Those of the low Arctic ( within a boundary similar to that of Aleksandrova , discussed on p. 85 ) appear mainly to be boreal alpine species that have spread northward . |
| 9 | These two items appear simply to be ghoulish trophies , since they sit on a table with other specimens of internal organs . |
| 10 | So , logical and impressive as the associate flower learning of honey bees seems , these hard-working insects appear simply to be well-programmed learning machines , attending only to the cues deemed salient by evolution ( and then only in well-defined contexts and often during precise critical periods ) — and then filing the information thus obtained in pre-existing arrays . |
| 11 | First , though , one has to obtain a very thin section of the rock , thin enough to be translucent . |
| 12 | And I , for one , hope soon to be able to arrive there again , to explore more of that spectacular new sky above New Zealand and discover more of that unknown earth beneath my wings . |
| 13 | Surely the way of transgressors is hard , and stands out in striking contrast to the ways of the Lord , which are experienced by those who walk therein to be pleasant and peaceful . |
| 14 | In the future we hope also to be able to assist further with practical care . |
| 15 | We might try to find such a conceptual unity by making the distinction between sentence-meaning and utterance-meaning , and hope then to be able to equate semantics with the study of sentence-meaning and pragmatics with the study of utterance-meaning . |
| 16 | We ask for a plant 's eye view of life and death in a sward and hope ultimately to be able to collect these reductionist observations into statements about the population , the species or even possibly the community . |
| 17 | Commercials are often produced which depend principally on being pretty for their effect , in the absence of an idea . |
| 18 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 19 | It is also worth nothing , I think , that although ‘ whole-person ’ , ‘ humanistic ’ approaches seem superficially to be opposed to behaviourism in their recognition of the individual 's personality , on closer inspection the two views on learning seem in one fundamental respect to be essentially alike . |
| 20 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 21 | Apart from simple evasive and defensive reactions , in which they play a dominant role , reflex arcs seem mainly to be involved in perfecting movements that are initiated by central mechanisms or in helping to maintain the nervous system in a state of adequate excitation . |
| 22 | A heady , intoxicating venom — which you seem almost to be drunken on already . ’ |
| 23 | So all those myths about the wicked step- father , the wicked step-mother and so forth seem almost to be true in this respect . |
| 24 | One of the reasons why Colnaghi 's wanted a presence in Paris and welcomed the opportunity to be at the Hotel Bristol is the attraction which Paris holds to the Japanese ; furthermore , a high occupancy rate at the Hotel Bristol is Japanese and I look forward to being able to meet this clientele . |
| 25 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 26 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 27 | Of the incidence of poverty and famine we know comparatively little , but we know enough to be sure that both were common . |
| 28 | If r is a known eigenvalue ( which we assume here to be unrepeated ) and unc the corresponding column and row eigenvectors respectively , then unc Since unc are each arbitrary to a scalar multiplier , we can in each vector make a suitable element unity ; then Equations ( 3 ) provide in each case n linear algebraic equations for the ( n — 1 ) unknown elements : one equation is superfluous , or can be used as a check . |
| 29 | ‘ So I said : ‘ That 's a little bit o' comfort I get then for being small ! ’ |
| 30 | W well the only issue for you is whether or not you can , you 're in good enough control there to be able to say can you we need to be within the four to six banding , okay ? |