Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that our own personal experience of being alive is different to the experience which all other humans and lower creatures have of us , is a clear and obvious pointer to the mind-nature of this physical domain . |
| 2 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |
| 3 | Quite a lot of the young people that were coping erm better with being unemployed were involved in things like erm playing in rock groups , or being involved in erm theatre groups and things like that . |
| 4 | The prerequisite for successful collaboration , therefore , was shared planning ; the precondition for such planning to be coherent was shared values . |
| 5 | The precise nature and length of the transition period to Europe 's monetary unification have yet to be determined while agreement on the political and economic structures required for the Community 's monetary union to be durable is unlikely to be reached before the mid-1990s . |
| 6 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 7 | However , the Ayr plant with 1,000 employees seems to be Digital 's preferred site ahead of a similar plant at Galway where 1,200 jobs are now at risk . |
| 8 | To be married is life-protective for both sexes but more so for men than for women . |
| 9 | The knowledge that a project is likely to be post-audited is useful for keeping management on its toes , not only in their evaluation of investment proposals but also in the implementation and operation of an investment programme . |
| 10 | Even its efforts to be indelicate are dull . ’ |
| 11 | This reduction in pleural thickening could also be seen on the chest x ray ( Fig 5 ) making it very likely that the pleural thickening noted initially in October 1990 and thought then to be unimportant was neoplastic from the outset . |
| 12 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 13 | Whose responsibility or whose , whose supposed to be that is irrelevant , it just needs to be cleared up . |
| 14 | A further objection to ‘ know ’ is that knowing a proposition to be true is independent of viewpoint , so that there would be no possibility of an imperative ‘ Know ’ proving like ‘ Be aware ’ to be relevant to morals . |
| 15 | If the explanation of a high standards and routines specification as symptomatic of the desire to be satisfied is correct , one would expect some relationship between this measure and answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question . |
| 16 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 17 | The other motives that seem to be important are social , community , housing and family reasons . |
| 18 | Tale-telling on each other and inciting each other to be naughty are frequent problems faced by parents of young children . |
| 19 | He takes an impish delight in shocking the press and dismaying the clients as he prepares to change direction : ‘ To be provocative is important , and change is vital for personal survival . |
| 20 | To allow a dog with arthritis to be overweight is tantamount to cruelty and Eukanuba is excellent as a complete food . |
| 21 | We 've said it before , we 'll say it again ; playing with right-wing nationalism at a time when refugees area being murdered in Germany , when people are being put in camps and ‘ ethnically cleansed ’ in Serbia , and when people here are being attacked for being black is stupid and dangerous . |
| 22 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |