Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | International affairs are at least less independent of what human beings believe about them than are the shifts in the weather . |
| 2 | If not , you will have to spend a lot more time and effort using them than is necessary . |
| 3 | They were offered round the industry and there are considerably worse things which could have happened to them than being taken over by Greene King . |
| 4 | The vision of delinquents as a different species of being threatening society provided a potentially much more unfettered entitlement to take action against them than was allowable under Beccaria 's version of the social contract that underpinned the classical theory . |
| 5 | That meant far more to me than being a bishop . |
| 6 | But Deane , who has scored four times this season , says : ‘ There 's more to me than being just that . |
| 7 | My friends as me if am nervous having such an esoteric homeloan . |
| 8 | Foxes you after is it ? |
| 9 | If you grew up in a society which is strange to me , I have first of all to acknowledge that its customary approvals and condemnations are as spontaneous in you as are your more personal reactions . |
| 10 | What if your place has been described for you as being a so-called ‘ minority ’ , or an ‘ emerging voice ’ ? |
| 11 | As you get older , these and a lot of other things will become clear to you as being good , and you will understand that you must control your behaviour accordingly , whatever you believe about ‘ god ’ . |
| 12 | Certainly , I do n't think of you as being old . ’ |
| 13 | It is up to you whether you allow him or her to call you as being late or early ; I like to do this myself from the back of the boat . |
| 14 | To comment on , if the if there 's anything there that does n't read to you as being totally idiomatic . |
| 15 | Now I mean Harry wo , would he strike you as being a millionaire ? |
| 16 | The question which has nagged me since is this : how far has the extension of the social services removed the need for the cushion which crofting provided in the crash of 1929 ? |
| 17 | There were moments when she wondered if there was n't more in life for her than being put to work . |
| 18 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 19 | Her pity for the man she had hurt so deeply made her behave more kindly towards him than was perhaps sensible . |
| 20 | She let her hand fall from the counter , her eyes still on him and seeming to see deeper into him than was immediately comfortable . |
| 21 | She moved back a step , after discovering that she 'd unknowingly moved closer to him than was socially acceptable . |
| 22 | But they were very much more strongly opposed to him than were many orthodox Christians . |
| 23 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 24 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 25 | He remembered her as being pretty but this was quite the wrong word now . |
| 26 | Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family . |
| 27 | But at the same time he has an acute sense of her as being more than the object of his perception , as being another subjectivity , a self which is not his own self . |
| 28 | She would have spat in his face , but that struck her as being unladylike . |
| 29 | She accepted his treatment of her as being what she deserved . |
| 30 | If he was the sort who enjoyed playing the field then she might have understood , but he did n't strike her as being that type at all . |