Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffering at this level can then take on the character of being a positive good that was wholly unexpected , and previously unacceptable to us . |
| 2 | Then she applied more make-up , and lifted her chin , ready to carry on the act of being happy . |
| 3 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 4 | I have gradually changed my life style and I can not stress enough the relief of being able to walk , run and do exercise without pain . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose you also turned down the chance to be his girlfriend ? ’ |
| 6 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 7 | The Frenchman 's blade rang like a bell on Sharpe 's sword , then scraped down the steel to be stopped by the heavy disc hilt . |
| 8 | She tried to smile a real smile at her father , who had run down the town to be here for the big moment . |
| 9 | Perhaps the threat of being rejected or over-powered by others , and experiences in your conditioning , lead you to avoid controlling . |
| 10 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 11 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 12 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 13 | So the lesson to be learnt from that is that erm it 's not always possible to keep yourself out of trouble , but you can do what you have to do to keep yourself safe by maintaining a proper separation distance . |
| 14 | So the feminine of is . |
| 15 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |
| 16 | But this desperation is not to be stereotyped ; it is not so much the result of being a man , not even of being a ‘ real ’ man , but rather of being psychically and sexually locked into the fantasies and fears of sexual difference . |
| 17 | I was in the middle of the kop for this game , and in the first half it was very much the place to be . |
| 18 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 19 | Merely the experience of being governed was enough to provide a political education . |
| 20 | The more heavily disguised our needs , the less the risk of being rejected or overpowered — the more easily we can say , ‘ You misunderstood me . ’ |
| 21 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 22 | They also accept that the brain has certain innate dispositions , if only the disposition to be reinforced by particular stimuli . |
| 23 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 24 | Only the terror of being caught by the creature — I could all too clearly imagine myself being hurled from the roof — drove me to climb over into space and feel for the first rung of the ladder . |
| 25 | Cardinal Hume has not only the cross of being a fervent Newcastle United supporter to bear ; he is also known to irreverent members of Mayfair 's Jesuit Farm Street Church by his initials , George Basil Hume . |
| 26 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 27 | This is the classic position , and with only the bat to be raised the batsman is in position to move back or forward while at the same time able to focus on the ball . |
| 28 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've seen 'em loading up the Guineamen ready to sail for Africa , ’ she said , thrusting away the indignity of being shackled , cheering herself with talk . |
| 30 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |