Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have a I du n no what she says is what it is apparently it 's right across , right through is erm |
| 2 | Someone said that they had heard him suggest that all guests should be breathalysed at the door , for Rush had the reputation locally for being a more than usually dedicated policeman . |
| 3 | Working-class people — presumably for being harder-hearted than others . |
| 4 | Neil Kinnock scored most for being down-to-earth ( 41 per cent ) and was also considered more trustworthy than Mrs Thatcher — scoring 26 per cent to the Prime Minister 's 21 per cent . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister has told the Conservative Party Conference that the things he cares most about are stability at home and in Europe , Education , and Britain 's long-term economic strength . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , the thing I enjoy most about being in the side is experiencing our amazing support . |
| 7 | Lewis-Ann sat under a huge umbrella , fully clothed , complaining bitterly about being too hot . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 9 | Xanthe had cheered up remarkably through being the centre of sympathetic attention , and Filmer was telling Mercer Lorrimore he should sue the railway company for millions of dollars for negligence . |
| 10 | In the past it hovered uneasily between being a rival to gold in jewellery and coinage and being a highly versatile industrial material . |
| 11 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 12 | The 32-year-old woman was attacked in Arkendale Street at 1.20am after being grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground . |
| 13 | We did n't seem to worry too much about being a couple of strokes off the lead . |
| 14 | We were not thinking much about being women in psychology . |
| 15 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 16 | Only through being exercised in a disciplined manner can freedom be preserved . |
| 17 | The apparatus contributes no truth of its own but , he claims , theory construction needs it because facts become significant only through being lodged in a matrix defined by analytic statements . |
| 18 | Although structuralism , in its extension of the Kantian position , has constantly asserted the cultural nature of those natural phenomena which impinge upon us only through being assimilated by our own categorizing processes , these may still be differentiated from artefacts , within which such a system of categorization is an inherent attribute . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh ! ’ said Fenella and stood still and clasped her hands together and for a moment forgot entirely about being in danger in the house of an ancient and evil sorcerer . |
| 20 | And if you do n't care much for being in your thirties , wait until the forties . |
| 21 | So much for being only a blown up light-heavy ! |
| 22 | thank you very much for being so |
| 23 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 24 | Some of Gladstone 's fellow competitors obviously could n't care less about being beaten into the minor placings , but fellow breeders were more forthcoming . |
| 25 | It is an amazing sight , the more so for being a waste of time . |
| 26 | Each of the schools we visited pursued the matter differently , and in some the quality of relationships established with parents and the community was impressive , the more so for being the result of long and painstaking work by heads and teachers , often encountering frustrations and setbacks on the way to success . |
| 27 | In power since 1971 , he is a remarkable survivor among Arab leaders , the more so for being an Alawi — one of only 10 per cent of the Syrian population . |
| 28 | There is a self-characterization here that is comic , and sophisticated , all the more so for being so unobtrusive that it is usually missed . |
| 29 | It was a lovely meal , Luke , made all the more so for being eaten in such a setting . |
| 30 | He was taller by a good inch than when she had last seen him , or he looked so for being noticeably thinner . |