Example sentences of "[subord] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 2 | ( a ) To indicate the validity of the factual evidence ( i.e. where is it from ? ) |
| 3 | Oh , Lady fair ! where is he going ? |
| 4 | Subject : Another where is he now question |
| 5 | my stuff from last week , where did where was it ? |
| 6 | But they might ponder whether such sentiments are more in line with the German and Japanese approaches that will probably dominate the 1990s rather than are their traditional capitalist values that have dominated the 1980s . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir , ’ said the lady , looking him straight in the eye as he paused in his task to glance at her , so that his hand stilled and his gaze remained on her serious face , ‘ I am no more the victim of circumstance than are you . |
| 8 | In recent weeks stories ( strenuously denied ) have circulated of disagreements between the Fed 's chairman , Alan Greenspan , and the members of the committee that decides the Fed 's interest-rate policy : Mr Greenspan , it is said , is in more of a hurry to push rates down than are his colleagues . |
| 9 | Chair , could I make , could I suggest maybe that in future when you ask organisations you make it harder for getting a license for street collection , that you tell them that you 'll want to know exactly the proportions , but I mean put it back on to them , rather than be you having to bother to it in the future . |
| 10 | ‘ There was little I could do to set her mind at rest except be myself , but I think they feel comfortable with me now . |
| 11 | Even if the forecasters are being far too optimistic , modern industrial economies are much better equipped to resist depression than were their predecessors . |
| 12 | In Africa the Italian army set about building an empire , encouraged by the British , but found that the natives of Somalia and Ethiopia ( then Abyssinia ) were less enamoured of the idea than were their new masters . |
| 13 | The government subsidy made it likely that the staff of the two papers were less worried about pushing up sales than were their counterparts on the then Lonrho-owned Standard . |
| 14 | There is encouraging evidence to suggest that the ‘ young old ’ today are generally both more affluent and in better physical and mental shape than were their counterparts a generation ago at the same age ( ibid : 141 ) . |
| 15 | Solihull teachers , most of whom had had no direct experience of SSE were generally more positive in their attitudes than were their Oxfordshire colleagues , most of whom had . |
| 16 | What better than were they ? |
| 17 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 18 | They were much more like the nuns than were my fellow-countrywomen and co-religionists . |
| 19 | Moray and Robert Stewart had similar tales to tell of the poor leadership and rash foolishness at Halidon Hill , although being themselves young and inexperienced they did not see it in quite the same terms as had the veteran Keith . |
| 20 | From then on she came to the surface more ; it was n't long before she said to him , ‘ This can not go on , have n't you anything better to do than being my chauffeur all day ? ’ |
| 21 | The use of role-play can similarly often give the impression that facades are more important than being oneself , acting a part more significant than reflective evaluation . |
| 22 | But the furniture is made all over the place although 's our best maker and he 's up in Scotland . |
| 23 | No , never tell me more of your goings and comings than is my due , I need only to know , as nearly as you may judge , how long I must bide here to wait for the answer . ’ |
| 24 | Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state . |
| 25 | God may be totally other to humanity , but at the same time ( as in the quotation from sura 50 ) God is said to be closer to a human being than is his or her jugular vein . |
| 26 | The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being . |
| 27 | She heard his sobbing tale with less sympathy than was its due ; it did not occur to her that she herself , by coming here , had brought about all his troubles and her own . |
| 28 | The present system is no more comprehensible to the public in this respect than was its predecessor . |
| 29 | So to identify Ratner with the flyboys of the Eighties is unfair on what was a far more strategic expansion than was theirs . |
| 30 | He then slept badly and became more silent and withdrawn than was his habit . |