Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 2 | oh well , she probably be there cos she 's , she 's got flu . |
| 3 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |
| 4 | But we 're there with everybody really — singing and shouting and that … you 're all together and it does n't matter who else is there as long as they 're Oxford fans … it 's all about the team , is n't it ? … |
| 5 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 6 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 7 | In particular , what hours would be applicable to children and should they only be there if they are eating a meal or snack ? |
| 8 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 9 | The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to . |
| 10 | And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire . |
| 11 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 12 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 13 | Again , men like John Clifford or Silvester Horne , active in Liberal politics , saw their preaching labelled as more ‘ social ’ than it actually was precisely because of their political work . |
| 14 | Imagination is the capacity to make links and to see links — it is not discontinuous with reality , but is a way of understanding what really is there if only we can see it . |