Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [adj] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 2 | She used to be with Grand Metropolitan and now , apparently , they 've had to appoint men to fill her post . |
| 3 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 4 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 5 | The blacks , like Bailey and Wint who were in athletics , tended to be from established occupational and social backgrounds and , to them , sport may not have yielded a direct material benefit . |