Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That STP deliberately chose to place the correct information in obscure papers read by financial enthusiasts rather than motor enthusiasts ( the two populations may overlap , but not by much ) indicates just how much of a deterrent positive repentance could be if properly executed . |
| 2 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 3 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 4 | He lives for us , we can feel him kicking inside the idea 's belly , because the bridge-builder who does no bridge-building is vitalized by the nobody to be and nowhere to go of Dostoevsky 's inexhaustible inventive fascination . |
| 5 | When other people made a fuss of him , he hardly bothered with them , preferring to go over to wherever I might be and just sit there looking at me with those eyes . |
| 6 | An account of how Dostoevsky extrapolated his lifelong leading themes of somebody to be and somewhere to go from Cervantes 's huge rhetoric of quest , would be doomed from the start . |
| 7 | ‘ To make lips look fuller , the trick is to define them with a brown eyeliner and outline the shape you want them to be and then go for a light coloured lipstick . |
| 8 | Decide how controversial some subjects might be and then try to plan how you will deal with these difficult areas . |
| 9 | ‘ We have got to get the system changed , it 's crazy to forecast what dentists ’ expenses will be and then adjust them afterwards . |
| 10 | The important thing is to establish just what the end result is to be and then find the right software . |
| 11 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 12 | During his voyage from India , Chandrasekhar worked out how big a star could be and still support itself against its own gravity after it had used up all its fuel . |
| 13 | He looked as tired as a man could be and still stand upright . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know how good I could be and still do n't know that . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know how good I could be and still do n't know that . |
| 16 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 17 | The answer to the three problems of wind traffic and camcorder noise is to be found in the use of an extension microphone : it can be more easily sheltered from the wind , it can be a super-directional type if need be and so help to exclude the sound of passing traffic , and it can be placed far enough away to reduce camera handling noises to zero . |
| 18 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 19 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |
| 20 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 21 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 22 | In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland . |
| 23 | In this sense Jesus can be as well represented by women as by men . |
| 24 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |