Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor . |
| 2 | A third reason for being able to open your dog 's mouth easily is if it swallows a bone , or a ball becomes stuck here . |
| 3 | The dominant beliefs of the catholic — nationalist bloc still are that the group forms a people who are Gaelic-Irish , constitute a nation , are republican , and populate an island which has a natural , inner political unity . |
| 4 | A more exciting spin-off still is that by feeding the digitised information into a computer-guided lathe it is possible to carve reproductions of sculptures in a variety of materials , such as wood , plaster , glass or stone . |
| 5 | Once more Margaret Seymour-Strachey 's words seemed to come from the front of her head , and to be as contradictory as words usually are when they do n't represent what one is really thinking about . |
| 6 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 7 | My father , no , no he was too old then , no my brothers both were but er . |
| 8 | The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse . |
| 9 | Law-enforcement officials say the fear now is that the terrorists that blew up Pan Am 103 somehow learned about what the DEA was doing , infiltrated the undercover operation and substituted the bomb for the heroin in one of the DEA shipments . |
| 10 | Her great fear now was that Miss Clinton might have sped past before her . |
| 11 | The o one thing that w we have to have in mind though is that the this particular criminal that we are does n't want to get caught . |
| 12 | We do perceive snow as being cold and white in itself ; but since our doing so is a result of the texture of primary-quality corpuscles , there is no need to suppose snow really is as we perceive it . |
| 13 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 14 | One reason for the widespread torture today is that many victims are killed , while others are afraid to speak out . |
| 15 | Accordingly , our sensations simply are as they are , and error enters only when we make mistaken judgements on their basis . |
| 16 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 17 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 18 | His fault here is that he has not organised enough feedback . |
| 19 | ‘ The problem with children 's books increasingly is that there are armies of people who are properly concerned with , for example , the way girls were always discriminated against in the past , ’ says Allan . |
| 20 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
| 21 | It is clear that what Bukharin had in mind here was that the ‘ town ’ must provide consumer goods and means of production to agriculture on such a scale as to make it worthwhile for the peasants to produce more than for their own immediate needs . |
| 22 | The result today is that few important functions ( measured in terms of expenditure ) are handled by local government in Northern Ireland : most , like housing , are instead the responsibility of non-elected quangos or , like education , of area boards . |
| 23 | The intention here is that they should operate down to individual budget holders . |
| 24 | The intention here is that victims do not have to pursue claims against manufacturers in foreign countries which may have less favourable laws . |
| 25 | The general rule here is that dukes are a better topic than baronets , especially dukes who have been through several expensive duchesses ( you can never have enough ex- duchesses ) . |
| 26 | The criterion here is that if the publication is published and on sale it should be considered for purchase . |
| 27 | One of the difficulties , it seems to me , that exists in schools today is that the teacher has to cope with a fairly large class , and one possible advantage of having a fair number of microcomputers |
| 28 | The reasoning here is that such goods are only capable of being identified through defining their characteristics . |
| 29 | It is important to note that the reasoning here is as follows : assessment → diagnosis → treatment . |
| 30 | Ignoring the gap between is and ought is committing very much what we have seen Moore and other intuitionists describing as the naturalistic fallacy . |