Example sentences of "[adv] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better be a damn good liar ! ’ |
| 2 | One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one |
| 3 | It had better be a pretty big one , though , or the gravitational forces will tear you into spaghetti before you get inside . |
| 4 | I think you 'd better be a financial adviser — one of the bank 's backroom boys . |
| 5 | Better be a butler than have policemen littering up his foyer . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better be a Canadian who knows about jazz . |
| 7 | Better be a reason my love , |
| 8 | And it better be a nice one ! |
| 9 | Perhaps you 'd better be a bit careful . |
| 10 | This is very much in line with hypotheses d ) and e ) , outlined above , and means that if a proper ban is reconfirmed , there could suddenly be a lot more bans where this one ( nearly ) came from . |
| 11 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |
| 12 | Ryan 's final chapters show that progress in this field will not so much be a threat to novelists , as a potentially rewarding challenge for narratologists . |
| 13 | For those who wish to learn more about their spiritual evolution and development through the technique of regression , there will naturally be a number of sessions involved in establishing a pattern which can be clearly seen . |
| 14 | Terms of reference for due diligence will naturally be a matter for yourselves and the investigating accountants to consider and agree . |
| 15 | Now David that 's quite enough be a good boy |
| 16 | This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece . |
| 17 | This would obviously be a nightmare for the directors concerned — and their families . |
| 18 | Out of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed there will obviously be a portion which goes on personal consumption . |
| 19 | The absence of a market rate of interest will obviously be a disincentive to lending but the law deals with this too : ‘ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates … thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : But thou shalt … surely lend him sufficient for his need , in that which he wanteth ’ ( Deut. 15:7–8 ) . |
| 20 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Verifying a ‘ zero-option ’ would obviously be a much easier and more straightforward task . |
| 22 | The history of such a loose collection , even for such a short period as 1945 — 90 , could obviously be a large enterprise . |
| 23 | The C format , otherwise it would obviously be a giant ( the hardback comes in March ) . |
| 24 | Usually it is the weak , undersized and malformed beasts that are weeded out , not the finest , which would obviously be a selfdefeating exercise . |
| 25 | In this connection the question of possible disruption of public finances must obviously be a very material one . |
| 26 | But we 're plotting Y against X which 'll obviously be a very different curve with |
| 27 | To produce such an all embracing package would obviously be a task of considerable magnitude from the technical side alone . |
| 28 | There will obviously be a considerable overlap of requirements for these categories of musician — real life is never so simple . |
| 29 | The scheme will obviously be a permanent and beneficial part of health care in this country but is , I am sure , susceptible to improvement and further development , which I shall promote . |
| 30 | This guide price will obviously be a useful benchmark from which to evaluate any indicative offers . |