Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My peers are more tolerant , more willing to accept me for what I am rather than for what I might produce or become in the hierarchy . |
| 2 | Why ca n't people accept things for what they are rather than going all out to destroy the things they do n't agree with ? |
| 3 | The belief is unjustified because nothing that you can point to suggests that you are rather than are not a brain in a vat . |
| 4 | It also emphasizes the importance of readings in which fictional texts are recognized for what they are rather than being treated as truth claims or pronouncements about the world . |
| 5 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 6 | But even if it is n't , it is far better to start with a concise piece of information which can be built up into a bigger story if the circumstances are right than to send out a wordy release which is immediately discarded . |
| 7 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 8 | Ways into reading text , strategies for coping with monolithic texts as well as texts considered to be of less " value " are arguably as vital a part of the educational process as any learning about text . |
| 9 | now , can you make sure you are somewhere where you can see this please . |
| 10 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 11 | Consumers are rarely if ever directly represented in Joint planning and as a right . |
| 12 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 13 | In game shooting , some people consistently shoot badly because they always shoot at where the bird has been rather than where it has got to . |
| 14 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 15 | It 's been downhill since those blokes who did n't play on Frankie Goes To Hollywood went . |
| 16 | Although some bonuses have been paid they have been less than 1 per cent . |
| 17 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 18 | Had Barlow Clowes been shut down in 1985 , the total investment at risk in the offshore funds would have been less than £31 million . |
| 19 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 20 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 21 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |
| 22 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 23 | An uninformed reader of ‘ Safety : the perils of self-regulation ’ might be forgiven for concluding that the powers that be and their executive arm , the Health and Safety Executive , had been less than wholehearted in promoting and enforcing safety ( Talking Point , 12 January ) . |
| 24 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 25 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 26 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 27 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 28 | Once more , the collection of interest payments had been less than efficient . |
| 29 | In 1929–30 it had been less than 200,000 tons . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |