Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 3 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 8 | Now , clearly , it had all along been sincere . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The reaction to George Carey 's speech suggests that many of today 's wealthy in Britain are not content merely with being wealthy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 15 | The grammatical similarity of this to talk of a person feeling , say a pin in his foot might lead one to suppose that pains are in parts of one 's body in the same way as pins , wounds and broken bones , are in parts of one 's body ; that is , that they differ from these latter only in being invisible , intangible , and so on : they are the proper objects of the sense of pain . |
| 16 | Not only in being able to select a group where perhaps we can justify more aggressive therapy , or even a group that perhaps we should just treat palatally but also in the future with the development of anti- angiogenic therapy . |
| 17 | After this Firbank resumed his nomadism , and the settings of his books , too , were henceforth to be fantastic versions of foreign places : Vienna , Havana , Seville . |
| 18 | His motive was probably connected with the part of the text which says that the estates of Christ Church and other Kentish churches are henceforth to be free of all secular service and royal debt . |
| 19 | Better to be hot than visible . |
| 20 | Better to be good to him — be specially good to him . |
| 21 | Better to be casual and try to show no surprise . |
| 22 | Better to be drugged than have to face it . |
| 23 | Better to be safe , and all that . |
| 24 | Better to be safe than sorry . |
| 25 | ‘ Better to be safe , ’ he added wryly , handing her the flower-patterned gown . |
| 26 | He had a reprieve which was of indefinite length but better to be pessimistic than otherwise . |
| 27 | Better to be silent . |
| 28 | ‘ Life is bloody awful enough without being unhappy . ’ |
| 29 | She had examined each one carefully , discarding then re-examining until she was satisfied that the gift was rich enough without being ostentatious , that the stones , the colours , were right for the girl . |
| 30 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |