Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | It is also more tentative because much of the material has been developed by using a psychoanalytic perspective and so is about people 's subjective experiences . |
| 18 | This is the first time this major title has gone to a coloured paddler and so is of great significance to those who think that canoeing is a whites-only sport . |
| 19 | " Will " is driven by love and desire and so is like the Holy Ghost . |
| 20 | I am going to do so and so , or I am going to the pictures or I , I 'm going to so and so 's for tea . |
| 21 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 22 | Although these transition metal compounds will activate carbon-hydrogen bonds , they do not behave catalytically , and so are of limited practical value . |
| 23 | The majority of Wear Valley 's GPs do n't have anything like 7,000 patients due to Wear Valley being a rural community and so are in danger of becoming second class citizens . |
| 24 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 25 | Portugal was ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship , and so was at odds with the principles of liberal democracy that were deeply embedded in the life of the other six . |
| 26 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 27 | And the date see , Mrs so and so was in that caravan on such and such date ! |
| 28 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 29 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 30 | Put simply , £100 received today could be invested at 10% per annum and so be worth £110 next year compared with the £100 received then . |