Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I will be thought outspoken , but so often it is those people who have moved into the country that complain . |
| 2 | In doing so I will be making frequent reference to the empirical research findings of criminologists working mostly in the positivist tradition . |
| 3 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , basically you 'll be getting used to experiencing sexual feelings , mainly by learning to arouse yourself and coping with resulting power surges . |
| 5 | So if you are trying to decide how to provide your favourite clients and clients-to-be with an enjoyable and memorable time this summer , within the limitations of your latest budget cut , perhaps you should be considering corporate sailing . |
| 6 | Furthermore you will be helping conservation twofold as WWF and the David Shepherd Conservation Foundation both receive a proportion of the selling price . |
| 7 | so you could be made redundant then |
| 8 | Obair has also had reservations about private sector developments in West Belfast — or perhaps they should be called public sector developments with a private face . |
| 9 | so he must be doing good work . |
| 10 | As the national agency charged with the promotion and development of sport , the Scottish Sports Council will take the lead and shortly we will be launching new initiatives to implement our role as identified in the strategy . |
| 11 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 12 | Defence counsel 's application for the judge to inspect the sister 's first statement under section 17 of the Evidence Act to determine whether or not it should be made available to the defence was refused . |
| 13 | ‘ We are both fighting in September and I do n't know what he 's got planned after that , but hopefully we 'll be meeting early next year . |
| 14 | Thereafter it will be kept up-to-date each month to the customary high Croner standard . |
| 15 | A week later they would be going mad for Def Leppard . |
| 16 | Hence it may be considered desirable for the subsidy not to be made available , and for marginal cost pricing to be replaced by average cost pricing . |
| 17 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 18 | Now I can be constipatied constipated and I can be the other way . |
| 19 | If it were n't for my kids now I 'd be doing untold things . |
| 20 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 21 | Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable . |
| 22 | The old 'uns know if they come in now they 'll be seen nice and easy and have time for a chat-up with their old mates . ’ |
| 23 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 24 | Labour says that the assemblies would be financed initially by block grant , but that eventually they would be give tax-raising powers of their own . |
| 25 | But instead of reading aeroplane comics and moping around you should be making sure your pride and joy is in a fit state to survive the winter — and ready for any of those all too infrequent sharp-edged days that appear out of nowhere and vanish just as quickly . |
| 26 | Today we 'll be meeting Dannii Minogue . |
| 27 | Nowadays it would be considered kinky indeed for a Catholic priest to acquire a tonsure at the hairdressers — or to parade around in soutane and biretta . |
| 28 | Alternatively it can be done prior to question 1 to introduce the topic . |
| 29 | Alternatively it can be placed close by the pool and the water circulated and returned immediately . |
| 30 | The instruments those guys use are completely different from guitar and I knew that if I could emulate the phrasing of those instruments then I would be breaking new ground instead of just playing the rock phrases that everybody knows . |