Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better be getting a move on . |
| 2 | ‘ I better be making a start . |
| 3 | ‘ Ee — well , it 's getting near my time for going home , I think I 'd better be making a move … ’ |
| 4 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 5 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 6 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 7 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 8 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
| 9 | In a medical textbook , the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation . |
| 10 | For take-off the tail should only be raised a small amount . |
| 11 | the purpose will not only be to form an impression of methods and levels of language teaching but also to observe how teachers and pupils talk to each other in the UK . |
| 12 | With the current boom in interest in opera , though , this disc enters a very competitive field indeed and so , once again , can only be given a general recommendation . |
| 13 | It could only be given a new lease of life by grounding its themes in a transformed image of a much more efficient , modernised , client-centred public sector , to which Labour has not yet seriously directed itself . |
| 14 | The matter could conceivably be overlooked : either if ( instead of from your last employer ) , you are due to get a pension from an earlier employer ; or if you will only be receiving a State pension — and not a company pension in addition . |
| 15 | would be slightly different because they , we 'd only be collecting a part of the premium we would n't be collecting their investment part if that 's in arrears . |
| 16 | It 's just that I 've just got too many at , it can only be done a week before |
| 17 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 18 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 19 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 20 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 21 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 22 | My own family was at once strongly nuclear and part of what can only be called a clan . |
| 23 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 24 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
| 25 | Liquids can only be compressed a very small amount and then only under high pressures . |
| 26 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 27 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 28 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |
| 29 | I agree with your correspondent 's sentiments regarding the Forth Road Bridge and the removal of the tolls , but he will only be arriving a few minutes earlier at Edinburgh 's infamous Barnton roundabout tailback , which I believe can only be resolved by switching transport policy away from cars and road freight . |
| 30 | In what can only be considered a plan of Baldrickian cunning , not only will the Board 's coffers be groaning with the weight of money but — and here is the really clever part — fewer people than ever will now be able to observe what a mess the game is really in . |