Example sentences of "[adv] be " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ We 'd better be goin' , ’ she whispered . |
| 62 | ‘ So if anyone wants to be on television in America , they 'd better be at my party . ’ |
| 63 | But when you do , you 'd better be prepared for him to come back and hit you on your arms , your chest , that big belly of yours and finally the chin . |
| 64 | ‘ So , you 'd better be careful , ’ warned the fifth with a chuckle . |
| 65 | However , if you think your anger is going to get the better of you , then you 'd better be realistic and responsible . |
| 66 | ‘ Better be polite to them , ’ advised Reid . |
| 67 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 68 | ‘ It had better be , ’ said Joe grimly . |
| 69 | ‘ It had better be fine , ’ said Joe , ‘ or you 'll cop it . ’ |
| 70 | But you 'd better be quick about it ’ , and open . |
| 71 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 72 | The West Wing contained chambers which Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 66 ) interprets as state apartments , although they might better be interpreted as sanctuaries ; the chambers behind are admitted , by their excavator , Nicolas Platon ( 1971 , p. 257 ) , to be ritual in nature . |
| 73 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 74 | ‘ We 'd better be off , Sar . |
| 75 | When the Community seemed to be their only option , the Greeks thought they had better be thoroughly Community-minded . |
| 76 | One pretty senior middle manager estimated the reorganisation has cost DEC six months and said it ‘ better be over ’ by March or there 's no telling what the outlook will be . |
| 77 | ‘ Well , I 'd better be off . |
| 78 | ‘ Oh , well , I 'd better be orf too . |
| 79 | Hobbes does not tell us , but whatever it is it had better be something which a monkey does not have . |
| 80 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 81 | There were what Cole calls difficulties , but which might better be identified as disadvantages , for the retail co-operatives in so constituting the production arm as to admit the bonus to labour . |
| 82 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 83 | Nightmares can perhaps better be defined in terms of the emotions they evoke , rather than any particular subject-matter . |
| 84 | One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one |
| 85 | ‘ Better be on our way , ’ said William . |
| 86 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better be going then . ’ |
| 87 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ better be off , then . ’ |
| 88 | Although almost all working-class housing in the novel is of that type , since it can better be represented as a ‘ home ’ , it was for that very reason much too expensive for the very poor . |
| 89 | ‘ It better be good . ’ |
| 90 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |