Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't |
| 2 | I would of thought you 'd of been better if you just well just sit down then love . |
| 3 | And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it . |
| 4 | I , you know , I just I would of been alright if it was a bit more organised I do n't |
| 5 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 6 | They were whispering for no reason except that the dim light and the sense of being awake when everyone else was asleep suggested it . |
| 7 | Things , in other words , were once again in the condition of being other than what they seemed . |
| 8 | Parker 's study of caring within marriage has wider significance for understanding of both the experience of caring and the realities of being disabled than its title might suggest . |
| 9 | Most experts advise that if you have made up your mind to stop smoking , you will probably stand a better chance of being successful if you can go ‘ cold turkey ’ — in other words , stop smoking all at once . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there were times when Alexander Ramsay had to admit to himself that he found all this , essential and worth while as it certainly was , somehow less than satisfying after all the excitements of the recent past ; a feeling of being understretched as it were , less than fully challenged . |
| 11 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 12 | Well I know , I mean especially if you know the people , what 's the point of being formal if you know the people ? |
| 13 | doing more to get people to be proud of being bald than you are ? |
| 14 | The top animals can displace the bottom ones at feeding sites and gain other environmental advantages by virtue of being tougher than their group companions . |
| 15 | Any man if he is alone becomes more aware of being lonely as he ages . |
| 16 | In the later phase of Mrs Thatcher 's government , Britain was in danger of being rudderless as nothing very obvious came to succeed this older source of authority . |
| 17 | Your own death : If they are honest , most people are not so much afraid of being dead as they are of the way they arrive at that state . |
| 18 | Then as David got up to order another drink she found that her anger towards him was dwindling ; after all , she could hardly accuse him of being uncaring when she was only too aware of the caring nature of his activities . |
| 19 | Not that I could n't ring you any time while they 're here , ’ she added hurriedly , as if feeling guilty of being underhand while her parents were out of the way . |
| 20 | And he rarely complained during his recuperation from the first back operation , to repair a number of fractures , which looked like being successful when he returned for Middlesex at the start of 1991 and took four for 60 against Somerset with a performance which particularly impressed his own wicket-keeper Paul Farbrace . |
| 21 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
| 22 | He leaned forward and kissed her cheek , which , from being cold when they entered the coffee-bar , was now glowing pink . |
| 23 | Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they 're wearing rugby shorts at the time . |
| 24 | … an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect … is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 25 | an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 26 | The complete statutory definition of obscenity is contained in s1 of the Obscene Publications Act : For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely , in all the circumstances , to read , see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it . |
| 27 | This recommendation was duly embodied in the 1959 statute , which provided that " an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or ( where the article comprises two or more distinct items ) the effect of any one of its items is , if taken as a whole , such as to tend to deprave and corrupt … |
| 28 | And , by the way , Jenkins pulls no punches on the prospects for the Wales side now partly his to command : ‘ Substantial improvement is going to be necessary before we can even consider winning ’ . |
| 29 | There is , then , no shortage of social science research which is claimed to be necessary if we are to cope with environmental change . |
| 30 | Thereafter , a regular visit will be made to ensure that a meal continues to be necessary as there are many others in need of this service . |