Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 2 | Since mathematics deals with purely imaginary entities , there is theoretically nothing preventing AB from being equal to CD except the need for someone to conceive them as equal , so that the actualization of let carries with it the automatic actualization of be equal . |
| 3 | really well you know I always think sometimes you 'd like to be sort of be crazy would n't you ? |
| 4 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 5 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 6 | And obviously if you playing cards close to your chest , you need something like this to sort of be able , you know , |
| 7 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 8 | Oh yeah , I just did n't want you sort of be short |
| 9 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 10 | Annie Lennox 's Why because she is such a great talent , and ( as it 's my last year ) Iron Maiden with Be Quick Or Be Dead . |
| 11 | Professional staff , including your GP , hospital consultant or midwife , with be able to provide you and your partner with immediate support and advice . |
| 12 | Grice does not suggest that this is an exhaustive list — he notes that a maxim such as Be polite is also normally observed — nor that equal weight should be attached to each of the stated maxims . |
| 13 | Also it is good for such as be melancholike and pensive … " . |
| 14 | There 's nothing we can do except be brave and patient . |
| 15 | He wore a bow tie , a corduroy jacket , and suede shoes and appeared to Millet to be well-distanced from any workshop floor . |
| 16 | The teacher 's conduct has to be obscene or criminal before sterner measures are employed . |
| 17 | … an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect … is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 18 | an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 19 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 20 | They declared the video to be obscene , confiscated it and imposed an on-the-spot fine on my friend . |
| 21 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 22 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
| 23 | GUIL : ( Shaking with rage and fright ) It could have been — it did n't have to be obscene … |
| 24 | Jessica was tempted to be obscene , but fought it back . |
| 25 | The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 26 | This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 27 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 28 | There are some observers who think this to be admirable ; but there are others who believe that in such cases the basic obligations that should keep such enthusiasts at home have been obscured by pretension and sentimentality . |
| 29 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |
| 30 | In all the arts , we may prefer the abnormal and regard that which is entirely sound and healthy as commonplace ; but late Turners have gone too far , in Lieberich 's opinion , to be admirable . |