Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know that you would n't expect to see there normally , I mean the one I 'm always on about is when everybody says you know that , that the thing is the thing is bad you know and when you say it 's that , it 's actually good . |
| 2 | What it comes down to is that most people , myself included , are just not up to murder . |
| 3 | What it comes down to is that I ca n't handle happiness . |
| 4 | What this all boils down to is that , if you make a turn to the left while flying forwards at high speed with clockwise blade rotation , you will probably need to apply full left tail rotor . |
| 5 | What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds . |
| 6 | ‘ All right , ’ Agnes said resignedly , ‘ so what it boils down to is that , despite your assurances to the White House Protective Detail , you 're sneaking off to do a little sleuthing on your own ? ’ |
| 7 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 8 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 9 | Well , I think not that they 're afraid not to be but |
| 10 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 11 | Thus the real question seems not to be whether we should detect the disease but how best we should treat it if it is detected . |
| 12 | That was not to be and the financial problems facing USA rugby at this time were in a way mirrored on the field where the Eagles ' shortcomings , rather than any great brilliance on Canada 's part , determined the result with the 23 point margin between the teams the biggest in the 16-year history of the event . |
| 13 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 14 | They may be worried about how to be gay , but far fewer of them are as desperate not to be and though they may be afraid of reaching out to the gay world , mostly they know it exists . |
| 15 | Her reasons are not to be and were not dismissed lightly , but during the hearing the situation changed dramatically . |
| 16 | At one stage it was thought that the old lady would be written off , but luckily it was not to be and the following year I was able to take her from Buckie with a new lease of life . |
| 17 | At one stage it looked as though McCallen might catch Dunlop as he closed the gap to three seconds but it was not to be and Dunlop opened up the gap again over the last two laps so that with victory in sight he had a cushion of seven seconds . |
| 18 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 19 | One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was . |
| 20 | About the only practical thing I came up with was that I probably ought to start smoking again . |
| 21 | The least satisfactory housing tends also to be that inhabited by sections of the population of which disabled people form a disproportionately large percentage , elderly people and people on low incomes . |
| 22 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 23 | This seems partly to be because ‘ human nature ’ , interpreted biologically , is a popular last resort explanation of human behaviour . |
| 24 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 25 | It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm . |
| 26 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 27 | Things to look out for are that all of the many Airworthiness Directives have been complied with . |
| 28 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 29 | And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years . |
| 30 | This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis . |