Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 2 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 3 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 4 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 5 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 6 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 7 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 8 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |
| 9 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 10 | They are scarcely free to shop around for the officer who would give them the easiest time . |
| 11 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 13 | But they will also be suitable for students who have just finished Standard Grades , but are not ready to go on to Highers . |
| 14 | When a ring of netting is placed round a warren , all bolting rabbits must be caught provided that they are not able to get back into the burrow . |
| 15 | You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’ |
| 16 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 17 | Mind you we 've got loads of staff nurses as well and they 're not all made up to . |
| 18 | people , is not , are not just opting out of marriage , but they 're not prepared to put up with the situation , |
| 19 | And , of course , we 're always ready to step out of he background and be with you on site . |
| 20 | Well like what are the band doing after practice , are they doing anything , they 're probably all going on to the Cutty Sark at Greenwich or something . |
| 21 | We 'll have a look at decimals because you need to need to know what you 're doing with decimals but decimals are fractions and until you I mean I think you 're very happy with fractions now you 're probably ready to go on to decimals . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're quite willing to cover up for him . |
| 23 | The sort of larger items the police have property marking kits that they 're quite willing to lend out to people , or alternatively , you can hire them out on your library card , and you can dye stamp those or engrave them . |
| 24 | ‘ If you do not know where you are then you 're quite likely to wander on to something you can not cope with . ’ |
| 25 | intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes . |
| 26 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 27 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |
| 28 | I am usually able to come up with an idea |
| 29 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |
| 30 | This on-line printer library can magic up a driver for any printer you are ever likely to meet in under a couple of minutes . |