Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Run up two dozen stairs or more without being breathless at the top . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When it is used figuratively , it can mean to soar or to lift oneself up , and so to be arrogant in spirit . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was felt that high concentrations would be more likely to cause direct stimulation of the enteric endocrine cells and thus to be effective . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pray that God would inspire leaders to be bold and also to be flexible in the area of finances . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Staff need to be especially sensitive at such a time and also to be aware of legal formalities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 23 | And far from being envious , it is giving me the greatest pleasure . ’ |
| 24 | And far from being luxurious , it had all the style and panache of a Formica worktop . |
| 25 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |
| 26 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 27 | It specifies this biological normality further , by linking it explicitly with marriage , lack of employment outside the home , and being in your twenties or thirties ; and implicitly with being heterosexual , middle class , and white . |
| 28 | You learn to be middle aged and then to be old aged . |
| 29 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 30 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |