Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adv] [adj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 2 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 3 | ‘ I must be very careful being seen with you … ’ said Harrison , ‘ or the Barisan [ the ruling party ] will tell the people that the Western media are manipulating us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It must be really tough being chased by hordes of gorgeous women . ’ |
| 5 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 6 | What might be more interesting is if re Christopher reads you his reading book from the library cos it 's really good fun . |
| 7 | But if all children who might be socially disadvantaged were prevented from being born , the earth would be a thinly populated planet . |
| 8 | Indeed the most dramatically powerful scene could be painfully sentimental were it not for the fierce intensity with which Tom Fleming expresses his feelings . |
| 9 | He thought that the only things of which we could be really certain were things of which we were directly aware , that is , things in our own minds . |
| 10 | Edwin , I would be utterly desolate were it not for my faithful companion here . |
| 11 | The touches and caresses she thought would be so familiar were strange and exciting and erotic . |
| 12 | Some breeds of dogs would be quite happy being exercised on a lead with the occasional contact with other dogs . |
| 13 | And did you see vessels in the area , because you yourself would be too young were you not ? |
| 14 | The contest , owing to the tiger 's height , colouring , and ability to move without making a sound , would be very unequal were it not for the wind-factor operating in favour of the sportsman . |
| 15 | Whether the WGMS formula of three constituency seats or 5% of the list votes is exactly right or whether other figures would be more appropriate is of course debatable . |
| 16 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 17 | Oh you will be then that 's what I say to Kev bloody well ask ! |
| 18 | The idea that a single , finite form of religion can be universally valid is inappropriate . |
| 19 | That consideration of one 's own advantage can be entirely proper is particularly clear in relation to sharing accommodation , where it seems that it is the foundation of most such arrangements . |
| 20 | Examples of interests that can be so protected are the following : ( 1 ) Beneficial owner in fee simple ; ( 2 ) Person beneficially entitled to the lease referred to ; ( 3 ) Tenant for life within the meaning of the Settled Land Act 1925 ; ( 4 ) Purchaser under a contract for sale ; ( 5 ) Plaintiff in an action in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice ; ( 6 ) Equitable mortgagee under a memorandum of charge . |
| 21 | Within this apologetic ( ironic ? ) defence then , sexual difference is sustained by the very inversion which divine law forbids , and the fact that it can be so sustained is simultaneously a repudiation of the claim that sexual difference is itself dictated by divine or natural law . |