Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the latter , the self-interest lies in being fully and finally in charge of one 's working life , in recovering it as part of a life of one 's own . |
| 2 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 3 | It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit . |
| 4 | Mrs Grant , I 'll need to be away or I 'll miss my bus . |
| 5 | In the first group of lead actions the position is as follows : ( 1 ) there are a very large number of major points of law which have to be decided on the manifold issues which arise under the various heads of restitutionary claim ; ( 2 ) there appear to be no or no significant disputes on the common issues of fact affecting the swaps cases generally , and indeed those matters covered by an agreed general statement of fact which has been placed before the court ; ( 3 ) there are discrete factual issues arising in individual cases , eg. , on change of position , since individual local authorities dealt with the money received under swap transactions in several different ways , which are variously relied upon as furnishing a change of position defence . |
| 6 | The results obtained with the latter system appear to be best when the ewes are contained in small paddocks or fields as the uptake of drug is less consistent under extensive grazing systems . |
| 7 | Despite there being a demonstration of COSE desktops at the announcement last week — which included drag and drop between Motif and Open Look applications — what the resulting products will actually be remains unclear until the specification is released , and that is now expected to be sooner than the end-of-June timeframe that was given . |
| 8 | That would be a scandal anywhere else on the planet , but it will be a blessing for Brazil , where the price rise in May is expected to be more than 30% . |
| 9 | Lodgings/digs These are generally unpopular with most students because of cost , set meal times and general restrictions — such as the number of baths allowed — and the times by which you are expected to be home and in bed ! |
| 10 | When a higher-level index is first added , it can be expected to be less than one track in size . |
| 11 | The cost of buying a complete system is claimed to be less than £1m — less than buying a licence for an IBM mainframe software upgrade . |
| 12 | In fact i has to be less than 90° for the simple reason that the supergiant does not eclipse the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 at any part of the orbit ; if τ were 90° the orbits would be seen edge-on and eclipsing would be unavoidable . |
| 13 | To win Objective 1 status , the regional economic output per head of population has to be less than 75 per cent of the EC average . |
| 14 | In particular he thinks the educated should have at least two votes , he does n't say how many erm that 's a matter determined case-by-case I take it , erm erratically it could be a thousand votes I mean he does n't rule that out , he does n't say it has to be more than one er two , but erm his view is that the educated to a specially privileged in a specially privileged position because they are erm more able to use their vote sensibly or to be given more than one vote , so we need now there 's going to be a question erm how do you know who the educated people are to make such suggestions , anyone with a university degree will be pleased to hear gets more than one vote on Mill 's system . |
| 15 | But for decades such scenes were done in the studio : if you think of the scene between the brothers Charley ( Rod Steiger ) and Terry ( Marlon Brando ) in On the Waterfront ( 1953 ) , as they talk in the back of a limo , the background of night-time streets has to be there and be moving ; but it 's only partly visible ( and the cars of the 1930s and '40s had small rear windows ) and becomes dramatically significant only after Terry has left the car . |
| 16 | Or perhaps this was part of some internal clock of hers and , at some moments , often weeks or months apart , Elinor was programmed to be briefly but definitely pleasant . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to be there before the coach gets in , ’ he said urgently . |
| 18 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 19 | I want to be there when you find the others . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I want to be there when Lina introduces Mrs Richards to old Freitas . ’ |
| 21 | In fact , UI claims the whole Roadmap process has been recast to be user-rather than independent software vendor-focused , detailing user-specific information such as when their suppliers will provide them with certain technologies . |
| 22 | It is an ancient body of law , largely customary in its origins , which , since the mid-nineteenth century , has come to be largely but not completely codified in the form of binding multilateral international conventions ( Schindler and Toman , 1981 ; Roberts and Guelff , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the official statistics show that , in the 1980s , lone parents have come to be more and more concentrated at the bottom of the income distribution ( House of Commons Social Security Committee , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | Before that , all ‘ gases ’ were considered to be more or less pure samples of air . |
| 25 | This was , in fact , found to be so and the results were interpreted to show that short term memory decayed after about 20 seconds . |
| 26 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 27 | In Miami alone there are reported to be more than fifty botanicas — shops selling all the necessities of the cult — and there are also pet-shops specializing in the doves , chickens and peacocks which devotees require for the rituals . |
| 28 | she wants to be near and he said could n't let her go |
| 29 | my Lord then all , what , then , was not restricting competition because the people you have excluded are not people who would be in the market in any event , you are already saying we 've got the level of the , the , the hurdle , the wall or the barrier to such a low level that anybody who 's outside it , it is simply not a competitor , we 've got everybody in the market who could conceivably deserve to be there , but there 's no restriction , no you maybe excluding criminals or fraudsters for a , until they 've been re rehabilitated , er and you 're excluding people who simply do not deserve to be there as competitors at all , but no capability of right to compete and that 's why there is no restriction , everybody is in the charm circle who wants to be there and is capable of competing and that 's what the commission are trying to get the rules down to , making sure that no one is outside of the wall who should be inside of the wall and that 's why of course at the end of the day they can give their clearances , there 's no restriction . |
| 30 | It was also the stage at which the Twelve addressed the critical questions of structure and procedure for the future development of Europe : whether the Community and Europe as a whole wish its design to be more or less monolithic , whether it wants to be more or less supranational , whether it wants to have more or less qualified majority voting and more or less jurisdiction for the European Court of Justice . |