Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed we have ‘ given the rod ’ to nations which have been better acquainted than ourselves with tyranny and inhumanity . |
| 2 | Fault-response based systems are usually advocated when lots of reliable diagnostic information is available . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not making light of the situation , it 's very very serious , and we are still hoping that somebody in Wales will come forward to be our main sponsor . |
| 4 | The mid-'70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland for rock and it is no exaggeration to say that Wednesday 's NME was the highlight of the musical week for a generation . |
| 5 | It was n't , Oh thank you very much I 'm much obliged or anything like that . |
| 6 | This is a prodigiously deep fissure or cave system in the mass if which has still not been fully explored but which by 1979 had been traced by speleologists to a depth of 4,400 feet . |
| 7 | All the patients with high pitted cell counts were currently drinking and none of the eight reformed drinkers ( five with biopsy proven cirrhosis ) had abnormal counts . |
| 8 | They are a façade : they are confined to the most superficial aspects , and scope for real variety is so limited that they in fact quickly become clichéd , standardized , themselves . |
| 9 | It is perhaps reassuring that they at least recognised utter nonsense when they wrote it , if disappointing that this was essentially a confession of failure by a Ministry whose central function had been to coordinate energy policy . |
| 10 | However , it is generally accepted that none of the items which supplement the basic 17 questions provide additional information of value . |
| 11 | It is not demoralising because everyone around you is going through the same thing . |
| 12 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 13 | A mandatory offer is usually seen as something to be avoided because |
| 14 | Thus a school in an affluent area is usually praised whereas one in a deprived area will usually only get a ‘ satisfactory in the circumstances ’ judgement . |
| 15 | It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police . |
| 16 | This doubt is especially prevalent today since religious faith is often viewed as anything but a matter of truth . |
| 17 | This is sometimes expressed as one plus one equals three because you count the ‘ plus ’ , which represents the interaction between different people , the ‘ ones ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ For a while the cricket club was badly funded and something of an outcast . |
| 19 | By the end of the period of imperial expansion , in the middle of the twentieth century , it was widely believed that everyone in the world should be a citizen of an independent and sovereign state and should have the same rights as all the other citizens in the state , but in 1500 very few people would have understood such a notion . |
| 20 | He was better trained than anybody in our section , and the Corporals admired his physical prowess . |
| 21 | Despite the Iraqi president 's failure to win the Gulf War , Saddam was still regarded as something of a hero by the Delhi Muslims , although this failed to explain why the pin-up most popular in the city was that which showed Saddam dressed in full Austrian costume : lederhosen , braces , Tyrolean hat , knobbly knees and all . |