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Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I might have known , Pam and Malc are there as well .
2	Nell Gwynn and Mme de Pompadour are there as well as the mistresses of Henri II of France and Napoleon .
3	It will have to be a crash course as the Rugby World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield are less than five weeks away .
4	LVMH is the largest champagne company in the world with consumption of Moët et Chandon being more than double that of its nearest competitor .
5	The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands .
6	S he was Steven 's actually so he 's pretty old .
7	Near to a school and a cemetery and with an older house ( with its orchard and coachhouse ) at the end of the road , this spacious house remained Edward 's home until he left Oxford .
8	And Mary Reveley is now considering withdrawing the horse from today 's race .
9	Pont Royal is conveniently accessible for the long weekend away : the flight time from Heathrow to Marseilles is less than two hours , with the resort only half an hour from the airport .
10	I wish Marie was here so we could talk about it .
11	By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P .
12	Adams was aboard when Party Politics scored his first victory in a two-and-a-half mile novice chase at Warwick in Feb 1990 .
13	One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given .
14	Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric .
15	For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman .
16	Branson was less than enthusiastic .
17	He did n't know Ken was there until he heard a cackle coming from the back of the stalls .
18	The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment .
19	Frau Fegel was less than enthusiastic .
20	Although Falmouth was less than half-a-mile away there was a curious feeling of isolation .
21	Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance .
22	Most of the farmers interviewed in the south-west of England were more than 50 year old , and the very small farms represented 30 per cent of all agricultural holdings in that region .
23	I , I 'm looking to see if Dr 's there because if he were me , or if I was him , I would say what the commissioner alleges is neither known nor admitted .
24	work permit ? — that 's bull : Pedersen ( joining Oldham ) , Bohinen ( Forest ) and Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) are all leaving norway for england in these days and Nilsen is just as Frank not a regular in our World Cup squad .
25	This had been banned throughout Albania 's more than four decades of communist rule , and the only motorized vehicles seen on the streets were those used by state enterprises , by the army and police , and by senior officials .
26	‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’
27	About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ?
28	The stance consisted of a couple of sprouting pegs but little else ; Mick 's home while it was my turn to try to link unlikely sequences of free and aided moves up the next 40 metres .
29	Christopher 's more than four eight is n't he Geoff ?
30	Rachel Esthart , a famous actress of her day , and a patron of Stella Pinero 's just as the then Chief Inspector Dander had been of the young Coffin , had left her Greenwich house to Stella .