Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acting as principal , he will be commercially and legally responsible for all business transactions in the market . |
| 2 | For he would never again be wholly as he was . |
| 3 | it is possible that the retrieval of records bearing such information might be wholly or partially unsuccessful . |
| 4 | Even when there is a grain or more of truth in a criticism , you may not be wholly or , indeed , mainly to blame . |
| 5 | Almost 40 per cent of such problems were attributed in whole or part to the pupils ' characteristics whilst in about 65 per cent of cases the home was thought to be wholly or partly to blame . |
| 6 | The Union 's decisions on defence could " be wholly or partially carried out through the WEU " but this could be reviewed in 1996 in a general revision of the treaty . |
| 7 | But now I wanted to be somewhere that had a future and no past to carry . |
| 8 | ‘ The nature garden has given everyone a lift and will be somewhere that the children can enjoy . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think , I do n't think there 's anywhere left now , there might be somewhere but it 'll be hard to find . |
| 10 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 11 | But it seems to me she should n't be locked up in Broadmoor , she should be somewhere where it 's more supervision , but more freedom where she can walk around gardens and places like that , erm |
| 12 | They 've said would n't you like to be somewhere where there 's people you can talk to an that and she said yeah , did n't she ? |
| 13 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 14 | The intention behind Mrs Whitehouse 's actions was not that Bogdanov should be punished , but that the values and beliefs espoused by the NVALA should be seen to be supported , to be successfully and , above all , publicly defended from attack . |
| 15 | Japan remains tied to the Western camp partly because the relationship has become integral to her economy and politics over forty years ' association , and partly because it appears to offer the best defence against Soviet aggression and encroachment — a long-standing fear — in Northeast Asia , and the best hope of Japan 's integrity overall in a world where she has been proved to be economically and militarily vulnerable . |
| 16 | Pareto 's economic theory began with free competition , and his theory of society similarly seems to argue that in ideal conditions of free competition between elites the individuals in the elite groups will be slowly but continually replaced by the free circulation of elites . |
| 17 | Using this method and the data of Goodglass and Quadfasel ( 1954 ) she estimates language laterality in left handers to be predominantly or exclusively left-sided in 60 per cent of cases and right sided in approximately 40 per cent . |
| 18 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 19 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 20 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 21 | So many attempts by Christians to communicate the gospel begin where we would like people to be rather than where they are actually at . |
| 22 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 23 | While there may be much to be said for the views expressed in this passage it seems to me with all respect to Wilson J. that she was stating what she thought the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 24 | I mention these matters because they show that to accept the Woolwich principle in one or other of its forms would appear to involve a choice of what the law should be rather than a decision as to what it is . |
| 25 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 26 | Quite apart from the limitations on law reform in general which such an argument would appear to justify , if the views of the public are of any significance at all in this context , then it must be its view of what the law ought to be rather than what it is . |
| 27 | Once proposed , speculative theories are to be rigorously and ruthlessly tested by observation and experiment . |
| 28 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 29 | The proposal in the review is that you probably will need to keep your joint care teams , your JCTs , which tend of course to be professionally and officer dominated , but there are strong feelings throughout the county , and one has to remember the run up to local government , erm , the local government commission is on , strong feelings especially from the voluntary sector , but also from the district councils , that there could be renewed dynamism at the local level , in terms of local care teams . |
| 30 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |