Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you might be prepared to be there as well … but if you do n't consider this is in your line of business … do n't worry , I 'm quite used to it ; Graham Rowell could n't be bothered with counselling either , but I happen to think … ’ |
| 2 | The master and the pupil had moved apart intellectually — Hoskyns willing to be more and more obscure in his wrestlings with truth , Ramsey struggling for clarity of thinking . |
| 3 | Your product implies that women are somehow unpleasant to be near and in need of very special washing to be civilised company for anyone . |
| 4 | Their numbers in further and higher education colleges in the UK alone were estimated in 1985 to be more than 55,000 , representing remarkable progress even by comparison with the situation 15 years earlier when none but a few pioneering colleges made any special effort to accommodate students with disabilities or learning difficulties . |
| 5 | 2.15.7 all Pipes equipment and apparatus used in the Centre ( except such as are within and solely serve an individual unit which is let or constructed or adapted for letting ) |
| 6 | She said : ‘ Everybody else says they are very pleased to be here in fact I am very relieved to be here because another TV station was at my home in Dumfriesshire this morning to try to speak to me and I am thankfully in London so I missed them . ’ |
| 7 | Now he 's delighted to be solo and deal-less , playing support spots to the likes of Bob Geldof and low-key acoustic gigs like this one . |
| 8 | The horror of the memory made it all too easy to choke and scream , but to her relief her performance was cut short in seconds as the door burst open , the light snapped on and she was in Penry 's arms , held close to his chest , and so glad to be there that not even her guilt could mar the joy of the moment . |
| 9 | So I , I , I said I 'd ring him back and , I , this bloke 's supposed to be here before one he 'd got half hour to turn up if he 's not here at one I 'm gon na ring this other one and tell him he can do it . |
| 10 | The voices are totally di , in fact the Clive James showed a few clips of dubbed films I mean er John Wayne , I mean he 's supposed to be so and he sounded so funny in Japanese ! |
| 11 | And in those situations I go and pop in when she is supposed to be there and have a go at her if she 's not . |
| 12 | As part of the investigation into attitudes to mass electricity , the project explores the reception by the public of plans for a National Grid and looks at the way in which this programme was presented to those most likely to be environmentally and economically affected by its construction . |
| 13 | The content of an article will tend to be determined by its length ; no newspaper article is likely to be more than 1,000 words , which precludes any chance of detailed analysis . |
| 14 | An advisory committee had voiced doubts about L* 's management and cost — likely to be more than $700m , of which the SSC would pay only $250m . |
| 15 | By December 1990 , the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) had received reports of over 305,000 people with AIDS from 179 countries , but they estimate that the true number of cases is likely to be more than 800,000 , with between 8–10 million infected with HIV . |
| 16 | The total cost is likely to be more than £20,000 and a further £10,000 will be needed for major firebox and boiler repairs on No. 1 ‘ Talyllyn ’ . |
| 17 | The value of the grant in any one year is not likely to be more than £1,300 . |
| 18 | Local authority associations say the transfer money is likely to be more than £100 million short of what is needed . |
| 19 | Leftists and Republicans were therefore entitled to feel that whether the right as a whole , or merely one element of it , achieved power , the consequences for them were likely to be more or less equally unpleasant . |
| 20 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 21 | However , the response of governments is likely to be more and more dogmatic , and be driven by considerations of ‘ security ’ ; there will be little willingness by those in power to defer to differing views even when these are held by a majority . |
| 22 | This implied a division of labour between manufacturing in the UK , and raw material and food production in the colonies , a doctrine which the Colonial Office broadly accepted , in line with its lack of sympathy with colonial industrialization as likely to be socially and politically disruptive . |
| 23 | As the polar headgroups of the lipid bilayer will account for some 6 to 10 of this distance , the overall stalk length , from the base of domain 2 to the cell surface , is likely to be less than 10 . |
| 24 | As more projects are initiated , they are likely to be less and less profitable , with lower expected yearly returns , and therefore lower MEIs . |
| 25 | It 's a good story and all the better for being more or less true . |
| 26 | deane was unlucky to be offside when the goal came — he and Wallace played OK — but neither scored and the commentator on Sky said that Wilko has to be disappointed with the pairs scoring abilities and that Leeds could not let this go on forever — in fact Deane has n't scored at Elland Road yet . |
| 27 | Mat. , though not as young as Matron , was great on being all-girls-together and thrashing things out across a table . |
| 28 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 29 | It is undoubtedly closer to being right than the view that Europe would be better off if the ERM collapsed altogether . |
| 30 | As such , criminal law categories are resources , tools , instruments , designed and then used to criminalize , demoralize , incapacitate , fracture and sometimes eliminate those problem populations perceived by the powerful to be potentially or actually threatening the existing distribution of power , wealth , and privilege . |