Example sentences of "be [det] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get your wardrobe , its feet are that way on , you get each side of it , you put it on there and its bottom of the wardrobe rests on top of the ladder . |
| 2 | Yet the signs are that industry largely turns a blind eye to what appears to a growing problem |
| 3 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 4 | Have you been that part there ? |
| 5 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 6 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 7 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 8 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 9 | She had not been that way before . |
| 10 | Their relationship was civilized and uncomplicated , and she wished it could have been that way too for Vi and Jane . |
| 11 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 12 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 13 | It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed . |
| 14 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 15 | • F.T.I. 's Robin DR400 training aircraft are each flying up to 50 hours per week on continuous training exercises . |
| 16 | There are few equivalents anywhere in Europe ( with the possible exception of the Finnish Swedes ) of the widespread Welsh language provision in schools . |
| 17 | And there are few towns more represented by engineering achievements than Darlington . |
| 18 | There are few things better than the reluctant black smile : worth a hundred dollars . |
| 19 | There are few things more obstructive to the composing impulse than those word books children queue up with , or those erasers they use to correct the first spelling mistake , often in the first word . |
| 20 | There are few experiences more exciting than starting your own business . |
| 21 | We enjoy a full employment economy , and it is not uncommon for folks to have two jobs ; there are few freeloaders here . |
| 22 | No-one was hurt in the blast as there are few houses nearby . |
| 23 | There are few rejections as telling as a sexual rejection . |
| 24 | Some males return to the ponds on subsequent nights , but because there are few females around , very little happens . |
| 25 | There are few days when the weather is so unpleasant that it is impossible to walk ; and even on a rainy day there are often periods when the rain stops . |
| 26 | There are few nations as proud as America , because few have instilled in its population the pride and glory of being a citizen of as great a nation as this . |
| 27 | There are few universities where crèches are not at or above full capacity , and without new thinking or new money , the situation is unlikely to change much . |
| 28 | There are few sights more thrilling than seeing a Harrier jump jet being put through its paces . |
| 29 | The difficulty of finding such clearly defined ‘ literate ’ and ‘ non-literate ’ societies has already been alluded to and Goody himself recognises that there are few societies today not touched in some way by literate practices . |
| 30 | There are few cars here , though lots of bicycles , very few dogs and almost no dog mess ( even the horse-drawn buggies for tourist joyrides have built-in pooper scoopers ) . |