Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's proof that they 're and well written . |
| 2 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |
| 3 | is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system . |
| 4 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |
| 5 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 6 | Tho' I highly respect Mrs. Leapor 's character from the account you give of it , yet as she was absolutely unknown to myself , and I am but little acquainted even with her writings , I am upon this account as well as many others , entirely unfit for such an undertaking as you propose . |
| 7 | Fear not , honoured woman , said he ; you are but lately arrived , and they come to bring you a present , which shall help marry your daughters . |
| 8 | It would appear from this that the bone assemblages derived from the long-eared owl and barn owl ( and other species , see below ) are but little altered by the predator , whereas the kestrel assemblages are more greatly altered . |
| 9 | That STP deliberately chose to place the correct information in obscure papers read by financial enthusiasts rather than motor enthusiasts ( the two populations may overlap , but not by much ) indicates just how much of a deterrent positive repentance could be if properly executed . |
| 10 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 11 | Our step towards studying the influences exerted by the element of time on the relations between cost of production and value may well be to consider the famous fiction of the ‘ Stationary state ’ in which those influences would be but little felt ; and to contrast the results which would be found there with those in the modern world . |
| 12 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 13 | In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland . |
| 14 | In this sense Jesus can be as well represented by women as by men . |
| 15 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 16 | From mid-May to late June , though , the bats were nor particularly concentrated round the street lights . |
| 17 | Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ? |
| 18 | They and the neighbours were but mildly impressed and Maria clearly disbelieving . |
| 19 | While marriage represented the only means to a livelihood for a majority of middle class women , most of whom were but poorly educated , it was nevertheless not ‘ done ’ for a young woman to solicit male attention . |
| 20 | Well — I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments , two of which I can only describe , the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me . |
| 21 | Equally they were as well placed as anyone to know about the extent of the delays by the emergency services . |
| 22 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 23 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 24 | Phage buffer , complete LB medium , M9 medium , L-amino acids , vitamin supplements were as previously described [ 3 ] . |
| 25 | Transcription conditions employed were as previously described ( 12 ) . |
| 26 | The techniques of DNA and RNA isolation , Southern and Northern blotting , and cDNA cloning were as previously described ( 24 ) . |
| 27 | The argument made here is that already applied to Halgren 's ( 1974 ) results . |
| 28 | The first — written expression , knowledge retention , organization of material and so on — is that normally measured in conventional examinations . |
| 29 | The second vulnerable industrial sector identified in the study is that also characterised by high non-tariff barriers , but where there is currently very little intra-EC trade . |
| 30 | Well , there 's less and less work and the work that does seem to be about is that competitively priced that |