Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are more likely to make the effort if the subject is interesting and they are alert than when they are tired , hungry or bored . |
| 2 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 3 | The trouble with most of the ‘ modern Christs ’ is not that they are anti-Christian but that they are unhistorical . |
| 4 | The size of the weighting factor can be chosen to reflect the importance we attach to an objective , but the use of this linear form implicitly assumes that the weights should be independent of the solution and does not permit one to model , for example , the proposal that profits should be given higher priority relative to exports when profits are low than when they are high . |
| 5 | But this meant that the areas with most problems are usually those where property values are low and where there are therefore fewest resources available to pay for remedial services . |
| 6 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 7 | They came together with pride and passion , each glorying in the belief that Hans Christian Andersen had been right and that their fairy-tale had indeed been written by the fingers of God and come to fruition in the Enchanted Garden that had captured the heart of a city . |
| 8 | The actual tensile strength of ordinary glass and ceramics can be quite high ; the reason why we do not make motor cars , for instance , from them is not that they are weak but that they are far too brittle . |
| 9 | Long-nets are used to supplement the work of purse nets in situations where the systems are extensive and where there are a great number of bolt-holes and entrance holes . |
| 10 | No one suggests , certainly not I , that the nation state has properties which are eternal or that it should attribute to itself values which are timeless . |
| 11 | Many practices realised that their marketing had been deficient or that they needed to know more about trends and opportunities . |
| 12 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 13 | Bank staff are professional and while they may have products to meet most needs , they wo n't sell you something you do n't want . |
| 14 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 15 | But however one expresses it , all the evidence is that the quantum phenomenon and the uncertainty principle are unavoidable and that they occur in every branch of physics . |
| 16 | And we are clear that if we want to make a modern Britain , we must first change Britain . |
| 17 | Co-ordinator — making sure that objectives are clear and that everyone is involved and committed . |
| 18 | ( Mimicking ) This country has been metric since before you were born . |
| 19 | If , after a previously unblemished career , you are taken to task , it may be that your superiors ' requirements are unrealistic or that you have not yet been given sufficient time to adjust to the style of the new regime . |
| 20 | There is evidence in the WFS statistics that the probability of an infant surviving early childhood is greater if both parents are literate than if one or both is illiterate . |
| 21 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 22 | It may be we are afraid that if they understood our needs they might use that information in some way to exploit us . |
| 23 | For instance , if you speak about one you love who has betrayed you , you are afraid that if you shut the door on that person they will never come back and find the love which is between you both . |
| 24 | Former Prime Minister and leader since 1961 of the Freedom Movement of Iran ( FMI ) , Mehdi Bazargan , on March 30 and April 14 claimed in Tehran that the elections had not been free and that his group had not been allowed to participate . |
| 25 | Our investigative researchers ventured into the centre of London to find out if High Street shops are dog-friendly and if they 're not , why not ? |
| 26 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 27 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 28 | Tim just shrugs and says : ‘ You do things not because you are brave but because you are a kind of perverse coward . |
| 29 | So the craft show , er adults are a pound , there 's easy free parking , children are free and if you want two tickets give us a ring , but make a note Nottingham University , this craft show , Jessie Conference Centre , Nottingham University , Friday and Saturday November the twenty six and twenty seventh from ten A M till six P M. |
| 30 | If one ought to act because of an authoritative directive one 's reasons are different than if one ought to perform the same act for other reasons . |