Example sentences of "and [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is also more tentative because much of the material has been developed by using a psychoanalytic perspective and so is about people 's subjective experiences .
2 This is the first time this major title has gone to a coloured paddler and so is of great significance to those who think that canoeing is a whites-only sport .
3 " Will " is driven by love and desire and so is like the Holy Ghost .
4 I am going to do so and so , or I am going to the pictures or I , I 'm going to so and so 's for tea .
5 Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising .
6 Although these transition metal compounds will activate carbon-hydrogen bonds , they do not behave catalytically , and so are of limited practical value .
7 The majority of Wear Valley 's GPs do n't have anything like 7,000 patients due to Wear Valley being a rural community and so are in danger of becoming second class citizens .
8 As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned .
9 Portugal was ruled by an authoritarian dictatorship , and so was at odds with the principles of liberal democracy that were deeply embedded in the life of the other six .
10 From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin .
11 And the date see , Mrs so and so was in that caravan on such and such date !
12 It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other .
13 Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him .
14 Put simply , £100 received today could be invested at 10% per annum and so be worth £110 next year compared with the £100 received then .
15 He 's American and only been in the country two weeks . ’
16 The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately .
17 Which tape and all was on there ?
18 It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance .
19 The defence of consent can obviously not be pleaded as it can be and generally is for rape .
20 Stitt has watched a video replay of the incident on numerous occasions and already been in touch with colleagues who were involved in Danny Thomas 's case against QPR 's Gavin Maguire .
21 A pay bed was , of course , a bed which could be purchased within an NHS hospital and normally was to be found in the so-called private wards of these hospitals .
22 In the main , most of the fibre in plants is found in their supporting structures and thus is in the walls of cells and the outer parts of the plant , e.g. stems or skins , rather than the leaves or inner part .
23 It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner .
24 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
25 More important , he could only speak Yiddish and thus was at a great disadvantage in terms of communicating with Russian travel-agents and officials .
26 Jessica dropped back a short way — the Polo handling the terrain without a struggle — and thus was in a position to take the view full-frontally when she rounded the last corner .
27 Within , that arena might well harbour some exhibition or pageant , and thus be of no significance in a war .
28 They had access to the schedule to be used ( Document 2 ) and thus were in a position to know what criteria would be used to observe and evaluate them .
29 He had managed to strip her of all her protective layers , and just being in the same room as him made her feel vulnerable and helpless .
30 Michelle moved on and soon was to be seen around Los Angeles with Nicholson , who had been a friend for years .
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