Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 This , then , is the state we are in as we approach the 1990s .
2 And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W.
3 ‘ You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did ? ’
4 Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on .
5 Erm , and we had a a little meeting Margaret , Joan and I , just to go through the agenda for today , and we thought that , we th perhaps five was a better number , erm , because we thought Maisie would be on as she does the bookings , but we would n't expect you to do anything else , Maisie , yeah .
6 This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document .
7 It ca n't be long before they cross the Atlantic as the children of the 90s start replacing designer bodies with designer minds .
8 Dealing with the feelings you have , about not having the child you wanted , is not easy but your distress will be less if you approach the situation as a loving couple .
9 ‘ And so , after having a good , long talk about the problem with both Liz and Owen , Ross decided that it would be best if we brought the girls back here , to London , until their parents leave hospital . ’
10 He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night .
11 It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’
12 If your dog is somewhat possessive , it may be best if you leave the room while it is being examined .
13 Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest .
14 The new rule is ‘ no player will be offside if he receives the ball directly from his own half of the field ’ .
15 Reading for our , I mean er , I supply my own car , my church has recognised that whether I 'm probably if I pay the tax and the insurance erm and I just thirty two , thirty five that 's but when I 'm in business or I 'm in provinces and I 'm allowed to pay what , ten fifteen
16 And she definitely did n't want to be around when he got the news that she wanted a divorce .
17 ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ .
18 I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues .
19 Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) .
20 ‘ We 're not at a checkpoint at the moment , ’ says Spill , ‘ but the P5 will be there before we reach the next one … and many people are waiting for the P5 before deciding whether to go to the R4000 .
21 They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity .
22 but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well
23 He would like to be there when they shot the bastard .
24 I want to be there when you find the others . ’
25 You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’
26 I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device
27 In cases where a covenant must be imposed to observe existing restrictions , on behalf of a buyer always insert in the covenant such words as " so far as the same affect the property hereby conveyed and are subsisting and capable of being enforced " , because for one reason or another the odds are ten to one that nobody can legally enforce them ; but the case might be otherwise if you impose the restrictions afresh .
28 The objectives are surely that we do the Liberal Democrats some real good , both nationally and in this area , in the longer term as well as for next June .
29 The men here are here because they broke the law .
30 He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February .
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