Example sentences of "be [pron] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had been me there as a kid , I 'd have wrapped my arms around him and smothered him , that 's how strong the emotion was . |
| 2 | ‘ Are ye not for a wee something after ? ’ queried Jim , taking his apron off . |
| 3 | Nurse , are you here for a reason ? ’ |
| 4 | ( ‘ Are you here for an affair , sir ? ’ ) |
| 5 | ‘ Are you in for a bite ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Are you there as a doctor ? ’ |
| 7 | I mean , are we really in a tree ? |
| 8 | As figures be the instruments of ornament in euery language , so be they also in a sorte abuses or rather trespasses in speach , because they passe the ordinary limits of common vtterance , and be occupied of purpose to deceiue the eare and also the minde , drawing it from plainnesse and simplicitie to a certaine doublenesse whereby our talke is the more guilefull & abusing . |
| 9 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 10 | ‘ I can be anything up to a bear if you like . |
| 11 | The offshore championship is held over 10 rounds off the coast of Britain … the races can be anything up to a 100 miles … today its the Eastbourne Grand Prix … there 's not a deckchair to be had on the pier … its standing room only as thousands roll up to watch the big boats bouncing their way through the water … |
| 12 | Are they just for a month are they the cards ? |
| 13 | In other words are they there as a form of tokenism ? erm do they get to real positions of power , like for instance , Ann , you work where ? |
| 14 | what matches have they got left ? , are they in with a chance of promotion ? |
| 15 | Were you there as an |
| 16 | The top is not visible from the road , and were it not for a sizeable cairn you could miss it altogether . |
| 17 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 18 | This unusual system would give the scallop superb eyesight , were it not for a design fault . |
| 19 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 20 | Were it not for a severe epidemic of puerperal fever ( ‘ childbed fever ’ ) in Aberdeen , which lasted from December 1789 to March 1792 , Gordon might well have been forgotten . |
| 21 | This ill-informed comment might be laughed off were it not for a threat , prominently reported in the national press , that the Moi University medical students might not be eligible for full registration upon qualification because of their ‘ sub-standard ’ education . |
| 22 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 23 | There 's nothing quite like a good Guinness — as Sir Alec is about to prove in the TV drama A Foreign Field |
| 24 | There is nothing else in a British woodland that sneezes like a human , so the only way to avoid startling Brock is to stifle it . |
| 25 | Oh , but there is nothing quite like a hansom cab — as it shakes from side to side , throwing us against each other , deliciously … |
| 26 | There 's me like in a , trying to do my erm jacket up and trying to keep warm . |
| 27 | At p524 The Lord President stated : In neither of the English cases referred to was it doubted that if trustees carry on a trade or business — as they not infrequently have to do , at least for a time — they are assessable under Case I of Schedule D ; although again the balance of their profits and gains is theirs only in a representative capacity … |
| 28 | So I mean Alan 's very keen on it cos it 's all to do with investors in people and so on , so er I mean what we really need is somebody centrally like a proper training officer |
| 29 | There seems no reason , and the very business of raising such questions is itself part of a widespread collusive conjuring of absences and of whole worlds of what might have been . |
| 30 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |