Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romany King should be straight enough after an easy reappearance to win the Whitbread Pub Partnerships Chase . |
| 2 | We should be all right for a few moments as it is deeper water ; we can then make for the beach , hopefully avoiding the big dumping surf . ’ |
| 3 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 4 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 5 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 6 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll be away home in a short while . ’ |
| 8 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 9 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
| 10 | I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes … |
| 11 | He 'll be all right in a minute . " |
| 12 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 13 | And the good news is that you could be almost back to a non-smoker 's risk level within a few years . |
| 14 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
| 15 | I think you 'd be better off with a with a new cooker and fridge |
| 16 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd be better off in a house in Thirkett than stuck out here in that great barn of a place . |
| 18 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |
| 19 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 20 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 21 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
| 22 | Cardinals need a temperature between 73–79°F ( 23–26°C ) , and would be better off in a warmer tank of their own . |
| 23 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 24 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 25 | I shall be all right in a moment . ’ |
| 26 | They can be nearly there for an hour and a half . |