Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no response , which meant that he might still be sleeping off a particularly heavy lunchtime session or perhaps was in the bath and could n't be bothered to get out . |
| 2 | The deviation of that inch or so is of no consequence . |
| 3 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 4 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 5 | My main opposition in the final was Phil Brown from Birmingham , already an established international and the man who over the next decade or so was to be a team-mate of mine and to be the British anchorman in some very fine 4 × 400 metres relay performances . |
| 6 | Despite this ambiguity , the term ‘ client ’ is used in this book to distinguish those who are about to be , or already are in a relationship with the agency through the attention of a social worker . |
| 7 | We try to keep a part of our lives for something else — to which we give a name such as Recreation or Sport or Being a Mother to the Children or just Being about the House . |
| 8 | Some children faced with a clown , an entertainer or just being at a party atmosphere at someone 's home , do not wish to accept boundaries . |
| 9 | or still be on it when I , when |
| 10 | I remember thinking , What will he do without the Spencer if Lamarr Dean or Early are over there at the Alamosa ? |
| 11 | Many women left not knowing if they had been attacked or simply been through a formal examination . ’ |
| 12 | Subversive activities are those which threaten the safety or well being of the State , and which are intended to undermine or overthrow Parliamentary democracy by political , industrial or violent means . |
| 13 | In Britain ‘ subversive activities ’ are defined as ‘ those which threaten the safety or well being of the State , and which are intended to undermine or overthrow Parliamentary democracy by political , industrial or violent means ’ ( Home Office , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Everything is to be produced automatically , without workers or managements , or else is to be made by hand by those who need it . |
| 15 | For purposes of this subsection ‘ land ’ does not include incorporeal hereditaments ; ‘ tenancy ’ means a tenancy for years or any less period and includes an agreement for such a tenancy , but a person who after the end of a tenancy remains in possession as statutory tenant or otherwise is to be treated as having possession under the tenancy , and ‘ let ’ shall be construed accordingly . … |
| 16 | Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) . |
| 17 | What choice have you given to the seventy five families that tonight are in bed and breakfast in this city with children ? |
| 18 | It seemed that just being around him was starting to get to her . |
| 19 | Because it could n't wait until lunchtime and that , that 's perfectly understandable because he wants to feel in control of what 's going to happen to some degree , rather than just be at the mercy of someone else 's position . |
| 20 | Michael Degnan , 30 years in Bishop Auckland , strutted the theory last weekend shared by Arthur , Squeak and a few others of the Cumberland 's Friday night faithful that the name comes from the cockfighting pit that once was out the back . |
| 21 | It was thought that " if the certaine or standing water had been drained , that all the 7 works would conic into one , and that then it would be the best worke that ever was in these parts . " |
| 22 | The only other substantial left review was to be found in The Morning Star where Jeff Sawtell found the film politically distinctive because it was ( unusually ) a film ‘ from within the class ’ rather than simply being about the class . |
| 23 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 24 | The city council 's boundaries are drawn so tight that everywhere is within cycling distance . |
| 25 | It is usually offered as a justification for the rewards that sometimes are to be found . |
| 26 | There was no getting away from the fact that sometimes being with Miguel made Shelley feel happier than she had ever been in her life . |
| 27 | As regular paddlers on the Dulnain ( 4–5 times a year ) it 's the Kinloss CC experience that downstream is by far the best option . |
| 28 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 29 | Cos certainly you , sometimes you get the feeling do n't you that okay being in the crowd or the group may reduce people 's self-determination and self control , but the result is mayhem . |
| 30 | One race remained , and that too was on a new and unknown track : at Estoril in Portugal . |