Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 2 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 3 | Ought it also to include those forms of deaths , injuries , and economic deprivations which are not as yet covered by criminal , administrative , or civil law , even though they are violations of ‘ human rights ’ ( Schwendinger and Schwendinger 1975 ) . |
| 4 | Our residents occupying rooms are not as well integrated in the community as those who share . |
| 5 | Below these slopes , north of the village and on various plots scattered throughout the commune , the vines are not as well sited , but they provide wines outshining other premiers crus . |
| 6 | The savories are not as well known as the majority of culinary herbs , but they should be used as often as marjoram or basil are , as they have their own distinctive , spicy , warming flavour to add to many dishes . |
| 7 | The physical consequences ( dizziness , headaches , tremor , increased pulse rate and blood pressure and increased urinary output leading to relative dehydration ) of caffeine habituation ( taking the equivalent of six or more cups of tea or coffee daily ) — or addiction ( the inability to stop using caffeine despite these adverse consequences ) are not as well known as those of nicotine habituation or addiction but nonetheless can be very debilitating and the constant stimulant effect can lead to significant withdrawal symptoms , particularly causing headaches and chronic tiredness . |
| 8 | You 're really as well leaving I know |
| 9 | There had been more than just desire there , she had known it . |
| 10 | Maxim trailed into the room behind him , vaguely looking for a fresh drink and finding Ages instead , who had been more than vaguely looking for him . |
| 11 | I am reasonably sure that by this time any fair-minded reader with a spark of decency will readily acknowledge that all the apparent similarities between Daniel Miller and myself have been more than satisfactorily explained . |
| 12 | Laws have been made to check such deceits , but sometimes remedies have been honestly although misguidedly trusted until experience gradually showed their worthlessness . |
| 13 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 14 | On the whole , however , CD-ROMs are now as physically integrated with computers as any other peripheral ; indeed , more so since new generation microcomputers are increasingly being designed with built-in CD players alongside the conventional magnetic floppy and hard disc drives . |
| 15 | for me and I think it might be rather than just record an apology for her absence , I think we should just put in something , just to say that we 're that we are very sad |
| 16 | Croydon 's Faith Over Reason are n't celebrities yet , though it probably wo n't be long before more pick up on their competent folk-rock . |
| 17 | Croydon 's Faith Over Reason are n't celebrities yet , though it probably wo n't be long before more pick up on their competent folk-rock . |
| 18 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 19 | if it was one on one , we would n't have anything to do , but it is the fact that they have got good technology , good materials and they are that much more than us , their troops are n't as well trained as ours |
| 20 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 21 | The barbotine technique allowed the potters to display these with a fluid eloquence , although the addition of triple tails of imaginative and flamboyant form clearly shows that these creatures were rarely if ever seen by the potters , or the artists who provided their models . |
| 22 | This section has paused long on the views held by some librarians on the nature of their role , and that of their collections , in the educational process because it was felt that such views were not as widely known among educators as perhaps they should be . |
| 23 | In the first meeting with the Area Board chairmen in February 1952 , the new Conservative Minister of Fuel and Power , Geoffrey Lloyd , stressed the need for economy as forcefully as Gaitskell , and capital allocations were still as carefully scrutinised . |
| 24 | It certainly deserves to be noticed , being clearly if idiosyncratically written and full of fascinating polemic and historical titbits . |
| 25 | This moment is very private and is rarely if ever seen by outsiders , not even glimpsed through a window . |
| 26 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 27 | The line ferret follows up the work begun by the loose or muzzled ferret , and is rarely if ever encumbered with a muzzle itself . |
| 28 | Whilst US administrations certainly have instigated ‘ two-track ’ policies ( for example , in Allende 's Chile ) these have not proved particularly successful , and it would seem that American foreign-policy-making is rarely as well co-ordinated as this analysis suggests . |
| 29 | It prompts the thought that the perception of weight in a shoe is perhaps as closely linked to comfort and ‘ feel ’ as to straight numbers . |
| 30 | The degree of splitting of the bone suggests equivalence to Behrensmeyer 's stage 2 weathering , but the degree of flaking is less : some flaking occurs , spreading out from breaks and splits in the bone , but it is not as well developed as seen in large mammal bone at weathering stage 2 ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) . |