Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Values of much less than 30° seem to be inconsistent with an explanation of the Tunguska object as a stony asteroid . |
| 2 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 3 | ‘ Only when Franco has to be a man , ’ and looking at him carefully , she burst into a fit of laughter . |
| 4 | They are the only ones certain to be counted in an election , for votes of lower preference are counted only when transfers have to be made . |
| 5 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 6 | So , to the extent that changes in Y t are due to such changes in v t rather than will appear to be unaffected by expected income as we measure it , and therefore we shall obtain an estimate of α 1 which will tend to be less than the true value of α : 1 . |
| 7 | In these vast spaces , concepts rather than characters seem to be doing battle , prominent among them a prince who appears to be acting the part of the roistering boy because he feels it is expected of him . |
| 8 | In all of this , older people , less well educated people , people without bank accounts , those in lower socio-economic groups , West Indians ( probably not Asians ) , and to some extent women rather than men tend to be less well informed than average , and to make even less rational choices when they buy credit . |
| 9 | For a variety of reasons — some conscious and deliberate , some accidental , some historical and political , some organisational and philosophical — difference rather than similarity appears to be the central characteristic of our primary schools today . |
| 10 | Just as change has to be acceptable if there is to be success in implementing it , so training for management has to be acceptable . |
| 11 | just as policy has to be interpreted by local authorities and individual schools , so ideologies have to be translated into specific policies and practices , and this may lead to inconsisten-cies . |
| 12 | Just when Cumberland seemed to be well placed to achieve his aim of fighting a full-scale battle against the Jacobites the government in London intervened . |
| 13 | As soon as thought began to be given to the televising of the House , one of the most troublesome issues was the extent to which editorial discretion should be permitted in camera coverage . |
| 14 | A COMPANY is threatening to axe half its workforce unless it is paid more than £20,000 claimed to be owed them by Liverpool City Council . |
| 15 | Possibly because Brando prefers to be thought of as a man of the people , he tended to snub the other actors as well as the producers and director in favour of the company of the crew . |
| 16 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 17 | Whatever the form of ownership — and there is plenty of room and need for experiment — the aim is the same : to bridge the gap between ownership and control that has grown ever since companies ceased to be run by proprietors in the first half of this century . |
| 18 | Councils were reported as being reluctant to participate partly because grants had to be funded from their existing budgets . |
| 19 | But this was expensive for borrowers in terms of commissions ( partly because bonds had to be lead managed by US firms , who formed a cartel ) , and suffered from listing , rating , registration and disclosure requirements . |
| 20 | While this has been the intention in the NHS , the reality has been different , partly because ministers have to be seen to respond to public concerns . |
| 21 | This recent trend can be largely attributed , said a spokeswoman from Sliderobes , to the type of house being built today where rooms tend to be smaller and more awkwardly shaped . |
| 22 | Paige felt Travis 's sudden alertness , even if Lori failed to be aware of it . |
| 23 | Even if appliances appear to be in good order , allow for the cost of immediate testing and servicing by the Gas Board , CORGI registered contractor or , in the case of oil , the oil company 's nominee , as soon as you move in . |
| 24 | After , even if people tried to be nice , it was cold everywhere , and dark . |
| 25 | Simply because Japan appears to be different we should guard against reversing the image by suggesting that none of the standard elements of Japanese work practices is present in the West , and that workplace conflict is rare in Japan . |
| 26 | Thus research papers were sometimes apparently preoccupied with technique simply because techniques had to be defined and refined for the purpose of the physical geographer . |
| 27 | Faith is better caught than taught and the example of a parent is a strong influence even while teenagers seem to be rejecting what you taught them . |
| 28 | After sorting out their unequivocal conclusion from those which were divergent they ended their work with a statement which underlined how managers as well as researchers need to be ready periodically to go over old ground ( Warburton and Southgate 1969 : 284 ) : It would be unfortunate if the mainly favourable tone of this report was taken to imply that the use of the initial teaching alphabet for beginning reading with infants was the final and only solution . |
| 29 | Birds were held in high regard because of their ability to soar between heaven and earth , among them birds of prey valued as protective spirits because of their propensity to kill the small animals that damage crops , as well as phoenixes considered to be especially effective against the scourges of drought and fire . |
| 30 | Thirdly , services , for example data processing , as well as goods need to be liberalized . |