Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [coord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 2 | There was also the time element The next tide could not be far away and if he was caught by the tide he would be in real trouble . |
| 3 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 4 | No precise figures are available yet but when the Berlin Wall fell , several East German soldiers committed suicide . |
| 5 | He made sure his hands were dry too but while he wiped them he managed to drop the hat . |
| 6 | Their heads were close together and as he appeared they all looked up in unison with startled faces and fell silent . |
| 7 | The Melrose stand-off had been stung by comments after both the Irish and French matches that he was not being creative enough and that the boot had become his only attacking weapon . |
| 8 | Now µ is a function of T , P and c 2 but if T is constant then and as where γ 2 is the activity coefficient . |
| 9 | Full-back Tim Smith is fit again and if he kicks well , Bath could have problems . |
| 10 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 11 | Indeed , they would prefer that any agreements they reach with the UK should be the result of direct exchanges between governments without any contribution from the individuals to be affected ; they further argue that the role of the colony 's legislative council is consultative only and that it has no legal authority . |
| 12 | And when you 're learning them , you know it 's alright now but when you 're learning it 's very difficult . |
| 13 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 14 | The British consul-general in Seoul thought that Soviet suspicion of the anti-trusteeship groups was understandable enough and that both sides in the Joint Commission were jockeying to gain the best tactical place before the breakdown of talks ; neither wished to appear responsible for precipitating the collapse . |
| 15 | Well I went out once last year , you see , and I was lucky enough but and for years and years and years I took Fynnon Salts and which is supposed to be good for rheumatism . |
| 16 | The ground was soft there and if they were lucky they would land on the pile of hay he kept for his horse . |
| 17 | Blanche had increasingly come to accept that doing her best was good enough and that she did not need to measure herself against some ideal standard . |