Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I must be awa' tae Pack Meeting , ’ she said to Dick and Chuck , ‘ or I 'll be late . ’ |
| 2 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 3 | ‘ The news will be on . |
| 4 | Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas . |
| 5 | Whenever they came into the shop Steve 'd be on about : where 's the action ? |
| 6 | Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic . |
| 7 | Whose side are we supposed to be on ? |
| 8 | ‘ But the pictures wo n't be on if there is n't any electricity ! ’ |
| 9 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 10 | ‘ But the environmental health would be on to me … ’ |
| 11 | I think I may be on to something . ’ |
| 12 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 13 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 14 | Now the hunt must be on for tryp-killing drug molecules which will actually penetrate into the choroid epithelium . |
| 15 | Any bacteria in whole meat joints will be on or very close to the surface and the outside of roast meat gets hot enough to sterilise it . |
| 16 | The outputs , Q and , should have opposite states that is one l.e.d. will be on and the other one off . |
| 17 | One should be on or very near the Lark 's Head itself so that will be the correct trihedron . |
| 18 | I promptly forgot about the audition , considering it a waste of time , so was astounded when John phoned four days later to say I had passed the audition and would be hearing from Les Cox when he 'd decided which show I 'd be on . |
| 19 | Now it 's almost hour by hour as it 's very difficult to know what morphine dose Ruth should be on . |
| 20 | It simply would n't be on . |
| 21 | If Sunday at 7.45 is not a good time for you , when would you prefer it to be on ? |
| 22 | The company seems to be on to a winner — at least in theory . |
| 23 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 24 | She ruled their lives with a rod of iron , would not let TV be on after 10 p.m. , cancelled the daily papers , and insisted that her daughter continue to share her bedroom , while he slept alone in the spare room . |
| 25 | Having said all this , if your home is centrally-heated , one heater , perhaps not even rated for so large a tank , should suffice , and in practice it will rarely be on , when your home heating is . |
| 26 | For this to happen , the right hand light must be on . |
| 27 | If you have copied a punchcard or a punchcard chart for tuck or slip and have marked the equivalent of the punched holes , the No. 1 LEFT HAND light must be on . |
| 28 | ( For the same effect on the earlier models , it 's the RIGHT hand light that has to be on . ) |
| 29 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 30 | ( See swatch 1 ) ( For all the examples with this pattern the No 2 lefthand light on the 580 and the EC1 pattern controller , or the No 2 righthand light on the 560 and earlier electronics , must be on ) . |