Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working-class people — presumably for being harder-hearted than others . |
| 2 | Neil Kinnock scored most for being down-to-earth ( 41 per cent ) and was also considered more trustworthy than Mrs Thatcher — scoring 26 per cent to the Prime Minister 's 21 per cent . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 4 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 5 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 6 | The same as they did with the one in Bangor , they closed that down for being political . |
| 7 | Yeah , that 's when I get mixed up , the it 's the twenty five per cent and the seventy five per cent , anything in between 's alright , it 's just them two , the right , the |
| 8 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 9 | Careful management of such clumps can result in the production of high-quality timber while the areas in between are available for the natural regeneration of trees , shrubs and ground flora . |
| 10 | The least experienced are positive , the most experienced negative , and those in between are neutral . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the bits in between are hard work and ultimately are not really worth the bother . |
| 12 | The combinations in between are those cases where neither sex has clearly won , but neither do that badly . |
| 13 | And of course holding together a part like Juliet with long gaps between the performance nights and no real rehearsal in between is difficult to do — that can be rather hairy . |
| 14 | He went to bed late and rose early , and the space in between was lively with frequent , prolonged and energetic sex . |
| 15 | In between were dozens of movies whose heroines were all the things the rest of us knew we could be , given the time and the place . |
| 16 | In between were those heads who dealt much more effectively and constructively with some staff than with others . |
| 17 | Erm you Martin threw one in about being late . |
| 18 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 19 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |
| 20 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 21 | Now , clearly , it had all along been sincere . |
| 22 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 23 | Quite a lot of the young people that were coping erm better with being unemployed were involved in things like erm playing in rock groups , or being involved in erm theatre groups and things like that . |
| 24 | But faced suddenly with being alone through bereavement or divorce , or gradually through the natural lessening of family ties and dependency , we may find ourselves feeling very differently , remembering with nostalgia the days when we were so busy , needed and surrounded by others . |
| 25 | As a matter of record , the JAP engine in VS is brand-new , so such characteristics are not due to having an old ‘ banger ’ up front — all JPs do that , I was assured , even those in the two other airworthy Aeroncas in the UK . |
| 26 | The reaction to George Carey 's speech suggests that many of today 's wealthy in Britain are not content merely with being wealthy . |
| 27 | gave a lecture and all she came in with was some notes written out on some full scape paper and some papers for the over head projector |
| 28 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 29 | Fine strike comes in from one of the substitutes , makes it three two , direct from the free kick and suddenly from being three nil up , into the last ten minutes it is three two . |
| 30 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |