Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 32 | We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another |
| 33 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 34 | Ways into reading text , strategies for coping with monolithic texts as well as texts considered to be of less " value " are arguably as vital a part of the educational process as any learning about text . |
| 35 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 36 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 37 | now , can you make sure you are somewhere where you can see this please . |
| 38 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
| 39 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 40 | Consumers are rarely if ever directly represented in Joint planning and as a right . |
| 41 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 42 | Children also have to acquire forms of written language which are rarely or never used in spoken English , since written language is not just spoken language written down . |
| 43 | It also relates to the way in which subjects are not presented — to processes and procedures and methods which are rarely or never employed . |
| 44 | The astrologer had been right to warn her off , had been right that his heart was tied up elsewhere . |
| 45 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 46 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 47 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 48 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 49 | The following establishments have indicated that they are wholly or partially suitable for disabled visitors . |
| 50 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 51 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 52 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 53 | As many developing countries are slowly but surely moving from economies based predominantly on agriculture into manufacturing and service industries , and as Third World populations are moving in great numbers from rural to urban areas , there are concomitant changes in the structures of food provision in these countries ( Abbott , 1987 ) . |
| 54 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 55 | All are immaculately and truthfully reinstated by Allan Evans and Seth B Winner Sound Studios Inc . |
| 56 | 2.15.7 all Pipes equipment and apparatus used in the Centre ( except such as are within and solely serve an individual unit which is let or constructed or adapted for letting ) |
| 57 | It 's been downhill since those blokes who did n't play on Frankie Goes To Hollywood went . |
| 58 | One of the things that distinguish teaching as a profession is the extent to which people 's implicit personal philosophies are constantly and necessarily relevant to their professional impact . |
| 59 | and even those who stumble aimlessly through life are constantly and joyfully surprised by God 's presence . |
| 60 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |