Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romeo and Juliet I mean it could n't of been a better thing for school children |
| 2 | Which I mean for er for a hospital taking people on like that , I mean erm I would of said i it would would of been a better proposition to have somebody who 's at least experienced . |
| 3 | Oh yeah , could n't of been a better end ! |
| 4 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 5 | And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . |
| 6 | Scottish women have spent a great deal of time discussing the pros and cons of being an older women , but what 's it like being young in Scotland in nineteen ninety two ? |
| 7 | Richard Brown , director of policy at the British Chambers of Commerce , warned conditions were still far from rosy but said 1993 looked like being a healthier year . |
| 8 | And when he met and married Nessie Monaghan , he was immediately aware , like any true artist , that she had the better natural voice and he contented himself with being a better-than-ordinary pub tenor and a hit at every christening , wedding and funeral he attended . |
| 9 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 10 | The tour lasted eighteen months only , the combination of the Russian Revolution and World War I stopping the show from being a longer success . |
| 11 | Far from being a sloppier form of boxing , American wrestling is a discipline nevertheless . |
| 12 | I think it 's from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now , Peter . |
| 13 | Its total population is thought to be no greater than 200–300 , scattered along about 1400 km ( 875 miles ) of the Yangtze 's lower and central sections . |
| 14 | At the same IWC meeting , Kasuya tabled a paper which estimated the abundance of Dall 's porpoise in the harpoon fishery area to be no greater than 105,000 . |
| 15 | The variance of validity coefficients found in earlier studies was shown to be no greater than would be expected by chance . |
| 16 | With most gliders the attitude for the nose during the slip needs to be no higher than required to maintain the chosen approach speed . |
| 17 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 18 | There is to be no lower door but — |
| 19 | Many parents would presumably place high priority on avoiding this risk because of its implications , even though the Dublin trial ( which by its size and quality dominates overviews of trials of intrapartum monitoring ) showed the subsequent prevalence of cerebral palsy among survivors to be no lower in the monitored group . |
| 20 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 21 | But , despite the new medical findings , police appear to be no closer to finding the murderer . |
| 22 | It was to be no bigger than its predecessor and retain the family shape . |
| 23 | IBM expects the world economy in 1993 to be no better than this year , and the workforce reductions will come from manufacturing and development organisations and in marketing and services units , principally from support areas . |
| 24 | which caused them to be no better , it would seem , but I 'm only young now so maybe something will happen later . |
| 25 | There seems to be no better tool for extracting ants and termites from their nest than such a tongue as this , for birds are not the only animals to have developed it . |
| 26 | Why should the primary sufferer want to seek recovery if the quality of life without alcohol or drugs or other addictive substance or process is going to be no better than that of the family member ? |
| 27 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 28 | Since then , however , two further studies have shown it to be no better than placebo and inferior to 5-ASA . |
| 29 | The odds are likely to be fairly restrictive , and sadly those about Romany King are probably going to be no better in the Whitbread Pub Partnerships Handicap Chase . |
| 30 | Entrants to the School were to be no younger than six nor older than ten , nor could they stay without special consent beyond the age of fourteen . |