Example sentences of "[det] be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 2 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 3 | So would this be just a a this hearse be just a black cart with glass and then a hood ? |
| 4 | BELVILLE : I wish this be not the hour , the very hour . |
| 5 | Sir Thomas 's face was pale , paler even than those of his audience , most of whom were wondering whether this were not a little too much emotion after all that goose . |
| 6 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 7 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 8 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 10 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 11 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 12 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 13 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 14 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 15 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 16 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 17 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 18 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 19 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 20 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 21 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 22 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 23 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 24 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 25 | If this were indeed the whole truth about anorexia nervosa , it would be a straightforward medical problem , and therefore comparatively simple to resolve . |
| 26 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 27 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 28 | Throughout the activities , the children will be expected to develop both general skills in ( say ) researching material , working in groups , managing their own learning , and specific skills in understanding history — this being primarily a history-focused topic . |
| 29 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 30 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |