Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You 've been sleeping for hours , so I thought you might be about ready to get up . ’ |
| 32 | The very nature of Amnesty 's activities means that many of the articles will be about brutal and disturbing events around the world . |
| 33 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 34 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
| 35 | I reckoned him to be about forty-ish , a family man — a man of the world , so to speak . |
| 36 | It pretends to be about local government when it is nothing of the sort . |
| 37 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 38 | ‘ The new approach will be about direct generation of business . ’ |
| 39 | Appointments will be as Technical Assistants or Trainee Scientists . |
| 40 | Furthermore when a random access pallet system is employed utilization of pallet spaces provided can be as high 95% rather than less than 85% in more conventional warehouses . |
| 41 | Their main use will be as independent units , to be acquired by those carrying out assessment functions . |
| 42 | The pavement-quality concrete apron allows cargo to be off loaded directly to the terminal , thus enabling operational speed . |
| 43 | Sadly , Stirling gave orders for much of the equipment to be off loaded and sent back to Kabrit . |
| 44 | The next LAN to be developed will probably be for Horticultural Education , where external funding is currently being sought for hardware and software to run specialist grounds maintenance , works scheduling , and computerised landscape design and costing . |
| 45 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 46 | The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages . |
| 47 | The limitation that " consumer goods " must be for private use or consumption , whilst a " product " can be supplied for any use , does not mean that suppliers of industrial or business products can escape their responsibilities , because the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 will apply . |
| 48 | May apply to more than one contract , but ’ call off ’ orders should be for specific projects . |
| 49 | Interestingly , the design requirements of eyes on the side of your head , which is where they need to be for all-round vision , plus the need for excellent binocular vision , leads to the cutaway snout or long face , such as we find in many rodents , including squirrels ( see Figure 4.3 ) . |
| 50 | Will he ensure that the vast amount of aid which has been sent into the region for military purposes will in future be for peaceful purposes so that the region 's social injustices are dealt with as rapidly as possible ? |
| 51 | If a species is to be excepted , it must be for good particular reasons . |
| 52 | Many of them will , I am sure , be for good . |
| 53 | I ca n't explain why , but it will probably be for good . |
| 54 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
| 55 | ‘ I try to have humility about things , just be for real . |
| 56 | ‘ Can you be for real ? ’ he muttered . |
| 57 | ‘ I know when you said ‘ let's pretend to be engaged ’ you did n't mean it to be for real . ’ |
| 58 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 59 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 60 | Their experience well illustrates Swords-Isherwood and Senker 's argument that the need will be for increased numbers of such workers , and that they should possess multiple skills : for example , electronics , electrical , and mechanical . |