Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2.15.7 all Pipes equipment and apparatus used in the Centre ( except such as are within and solely serve an individual unit which is let or constructed or adapted for letting ) |
| 2 | Would n't of been more than five . . |
| 3 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 4 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 5 | New actors need to try and widen their range all the time and in the same breath find a way of being commercially as well as artistically viable . |
| 6 | But this desperation is not to be stereotyped ; it is not so much the result of being a man , not even of being a ‘ real ’ man , but rather of being psychically and sexually locked into the fantasies and fears of sexual difference . |
| 7 | A spokesman for America 's University of Minnesota , said : ‘ Plan for the contingency of being apart if you see a lot of divorce in both families . ’ |
| 8 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 9 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 10 | In any case , you can buy lifejackets now that look little different from normal fishing waistcoats , so what is the point of being without and risking your life ? |
| 11 | So they have all the advantages of being indoors and outdoors at the same time , making performances at Garsington a unique experience . |
| 12 | This structure is not ‘ literary ’ in the sense of being above and beyond the mundane , or at a higher aesthetic level than that achieved by the characters implicated in it . |
| 13 | I had the privilege of being there and I will never forget the experience . |
| 14 | ‘ A person is guilty of robbery if he steals , and immediately before or at the time of doing so , and in order to do so , he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force . |
| 15 | By s.8(1) of the Theft Act 1968 : [ a ] person is guilty of robbery if he steals , and immediately before or at the time of doing so , and in order to do so , he uses any force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force . |
| 16 | Beyond that , she had shown that women were capable of being more than simpering wallflowers , or unpaid housekeepers . |
| 17 | Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality . |
| 18 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 19 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 20 | Girls choosing science are not particularly emotionally reticent or rigid in their thinking , although they do seem to have low self-esteem in terms of being socially and sexually attractive . |
| 21 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 22 | But there are two reasons to suspect this argument of being less than compelling . |
| 23 | Although the inclination angle can not be determined , the a priori probability that it is less than must be at least and has 95% probability of being less than . |
| 24 | She realised , as she had mentioned to Laura , she was quite as guilty as her superiors of being less than open with the police . |
| 25 | Provided that the value of is less than one , the effect of the positive value of will gradually become negligible . |
| 26 | Today she looked like being later than ever and the excuse was beginning to look a bit thin . |
| 27 | Section 4(1) ( c ) provides : ( c ) ( i ) that the only supply of the product to another by the person proceeded against was otherwise than in the course of a business of that person 's ; and ( c ) ( ii ) that section 2(2) above does not apply to that person or applies to him by virtue of things done otherwise than with a view to profit … |
| 28 | It does not come into being only when instantiated . |
| 29 | Something had happened to them — they were charged for just a while into being better than they were . |
| 30 | If the proposition we start out with is simply that men exist — which , we are told , should be more appropriately expressed as ( Ex ) x is a man — then no doubt sooner or later we shall run into Jones and will be able to proclaim the happy discovery . |