Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The solution may be stable on either the success or the failure surfaces for the same value of the logical rigour factor .
2 A peremptory demand for " wholeness " , a specialist " science " requiring " cool impartiality " , and strong personal feelings for the object of that science — this was a combination which could hardly be stable for long .
3 ‘ Do n't worry , boy , ’ said Tom , ‘ it 'll be dry by tonight . ’
4 It 'll be dry in there . ’
5 Day Four : After trying the local wine , most will still be asleep at 7.30am when your cruise slips its mooring and heads for Mainz .
6 If I had any children to send to those good schools in Highgate , even they would n't be asleep by now . ’
7 But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now .
8 ‘ I was hoping you 'd be asleep by now , ’ he snapped .
9 ‘ If they had n't stopped us hunting musk , ’ said Māilo , knocking the spent tobacco out of the chillim on the side of the hearth , ‘ we 'd probably all be rich by now .
10 The 100 Group appreciates this and would be grateful for even a small gesture in the Budget , ‘ maybe with some indication that there could be more to come later' , Mr Lawrence suggests .
11 He was very considerate like that — and he taught us girls a thing or two we lived to be grateful for later on , I can tell you . ’
12 Jonathan Speelman will be grateful for yesterday 's rest day , which gives him a chance to recover his equanimity after a depressing loss in the second game .
13 And if , for some reason , he has really chosen to drop out for a while , he would n't be grateful for too much fuss , would he ? ’
14 ‘ Hopefully we will be able to make history come alive for the children , ’ Mr. Callaway said , adding that the school would still be grateful for as many old photographs and bits and pieces of memorabilia as possible .
15 The house was in need of total renovation and would not be habitable for nearly a year , but the Ashleys moved into a hotel in Le Touquet from where they hoped to oversee the extensive repairs to the exterior and interior .
16 Morning , Afternoon and evening activities were scheduled , with the opportunity to take a large lunch , in the hope that you would survive and still be alert after 10pm !
17 She quotes examples of environmental deterioration in China for example which started to be acute between AD , 1500–1750 and which induced long distance transport of night-soil , labour intensive digging of river silts , widespread terracing , and recycling of residues and wastes .
18 This is not merely a function of the relative strengths of the HSV-1 IE-3 and VZV gene 62 promoters ( 39 ) but could be attributable to either the relative strengths of their activating domains ( unknown at present ) or alternatively multiple 140k interactions with the promoter may have an additive effect , enhancing the efficiency of activation .
19 I 'll be getting across to you in just a second , just give us a second and I 'll be right over there mate .
20 we 'll talk to Sue Dave that needs to be , to find out if we can , what 's happening elsewhere cos she can through her colleagues and I will also I I do n't think I 'll ring Margaret but I 'll give Terry a ring Morden who 's the record of achievement guy there and get on quite well with him just to find out what sort of tap they 're taking on it cos er yeah , I I take very much what Sandra 's saying as do n't want our youngsters to be disadvantaged in anyway if others are lies , damn lies and
21 The date of unit one might be eleventh-century at least , so how much earlier is unit two ?
22 to understand that be sorry after about five minutes .
23 However , he also argued that , under imperial initiative , the process of social transformation in India could not be complete without either a proletarian revolution in Britain or ‘ the Hindoos themselves … grown strong enough to throw off the English yoke altogether ’ .
24 An experiment to test whether , in an accident , the core of the PWR might overheat and cause a melt-down will not be ready to start until next year , and will not be complete until long after the inquiry ends .
25 Furthermore , if resources permit , it might be possible to also examine one of the telecommunications-related projects organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry which will contribute to the development of the broader digital network system .
26 It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium .
27 Even in the absence of a complete procedure for deciding expressions it will be possible to automatically transform each finite program to normal form ( except perhaps for the inclusion of some false branches in IF statements ) .
28 With the aid of such measurements it will be possible to accurately observe the behaviour of matter and produce a statement of cause and effect .
29 Because MRI is particularly well developed to differentiate between lipid and water , with further development , it may be possible to simultaneously measure transit and absorption of different nutrients in the gut , an area of measurement at present not possible with existing methods .
30 It should be possible to greatly increase the sensitivity of such observations .
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