Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some organisations objectives are rather more like a woman shopping than a man shopping . |
| 2 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 3 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 4 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 5 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 7 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 8 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |
| 9 | The Government 's claim that students are better off as a result of student loans simply is not true ; nor is it true that loans make up for the loss of income support and housing benefit . |
| 10 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 11 | Detectives are so far at a loss to explain the reason for his death . |
| 12 | ‘ Curry is great value and it is bound to have a big appeal for MPs because we are so often in a hurry . ’ |
| 13 | Ranges of imagery such as that of the plough may be symbolic , but are only so in a particular type of fabliau symbolism : disgraceful or phallic in their symbolic reference in a manner that is the very antitype of Christian moralization . |
| 14 | Guests of Mark and Cynthia Wilkinson are literally out on a limb when they are invited to dinner — because the couple entertain in a tree house . |
| 15 | The position of the ontological idealist is that the " physical world " is merely a modification of non-physical reality , and consequently that , in the strictest sense , there are no non-mental phenomena ( although " mental " has to be taken here in a very broad sense ) ; whereas the classical dualist view is that there are two fundamentally distinct types of phenomena , one physical the other mental , which though irreducibly different are nevertheless ontologically on a par . |
| 16 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
| 17 | If there are a lot of special conditions , they are generally there for a reason , and one has to try to work out why . |
| 18 | If you are determined to give up smoking , you are already off to a good start . |
| 19 | To go into detail would carry us too far from the main pathway of this chapter , for you will remember that we are already out on a digression . |
| 20 | We 've an Italian flavour for our first rugby action of the new season because Gloucester are just back from a two match trip to Venice . |
| 21 | I draw a line between investigators and liquidators who are just out on a fishing expedition . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday . |
| 23 | And they 're right up to a point . |
| 24 | We should be , we we 're only here for a little while cos I 'm going to spend some time with the girls cos I ai n't see their |
| 25 | you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well |
| 26 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 27 | we 're obviously now in a position where we can do a great deal more in terms of analysis . |
| 28 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 29 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 30 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |