Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 2 | ‘ If I were the Pentagon or the White House I 'd be upset too if a US Air Force bomber or cargo plane , carrying a load of bombs , suddenly disappeared into the sea . |
| 3 | Evil should not be unrecognized merely because it is as banal as indifference ; indifference rather than intent may well be the greater cause of avoidable human suffering , particularly in the case of corporate crime . |
| 4 | The outside influences , courts , public opinion , and so on , tended to be supportive rather than causal ; they offered a series of ‘ green lights ’ to governmental growth , while demographic trends were of importance in some policy areas ( public assistance and education ) and wars and crises were important in public assistance , higher education and unemployment . |
| 5 | Paint wo n't be dry enough if we start wallpapering it |
| 6 | This can be annoying sometimes because jobs that would only take a little while can often take a lot longer . |
| 7 | This is because when there is an actionable nuisance the law provides a legal remedy by way of injunction or damages and this it is not prepared to do in respect of every odour found to be annoying or objectionable ; neither would it be practicable especially since odours are notoriously subjective in nature affecting some individuals and not others and causing a variety of symptoms . |
| 8 | It therefore tends to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 9 | Orthodox medicines tend to be palliative rather than curative . |
| 10 | Equally if the vendors are two or more companies in the same group , the agreement will not be registrable merely because both vendors undertake restrictions unless the purchaser also undertakes restrictions . |
| 11 | The court in Greenstein said that an accused could be dishonest even though no one lost any money . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another may be dishonest notwithstanding that he is willing to pay for the property . |
| 13 | By s.2(2) , " A person 's appropriation of property may be dishonest notwithstanding that he is willing to pay for the property . " |
| 14 | Lexicography , like linguistics , claims to be descriptive rather than prescriptive , recording people 's use of words without fear or favour . |
| 15 | In the nature of things , much of this feedback will go no further than the local office , but senior bureaucrats are much involved in the preparation of new policies for politicians and it would be strange indeed if such feedback never featured in new recommendations . |
| 16 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 17 | She did not want to be specific so that Tait could press her further . |
| 18 | I shall be sorry now if you leave your job . ’ |
| 19 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 20 | In order to be given full credit as CPE , reading should be technical rather than general . |
| 21 | According to Joan Mertens , curator of Greek and Roman art at the Met , ‘ The pieces that Norbert Schimmel chose … tend to be complete rather than fragmentary ’ , yet Dr Jurgen Settgast , former Director of the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin , characterises Schimmel as preferring fragments . |
| 22 | This process of adaptation and acceptance may be broken into several phases which can proceed at varying speeds and may be complete only after several generations have passed . |
| 23 | It allows the engineers to achieve something which would not be possible otherwise and which seems natural to the audience . |
| 24 | It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document . |
| 25 | True autonomy could not be possible anyway because , like Miliband , Poulantzas argues that thought and action are conditioned by ideological hegemony . |
| 26 | It seems fairly obvious that often such a decision will not be possible either because no clear decision procedures are available , or because of certain fundamental difficulties involved in applying such procedures . |
| 27 | To establish laws of nature without analogizing would be possible only if there is indeed a logical operation for inferring from the particular to the universal , which induction is supposed to be . |
| 28 | Time after time Nizan hammered out his basic message : the internal logic of fascism is rearmament leading to war ; the only way to prevent the catastrophe of a world-wide conflict is the creation of a potent counterbalancing force expressly designed to curb the expansionist tendencies of fascist nation states ; peace will be possible only if it is guaranteed by an effective network of alliances forged between civilised , peace-loving nations such as France , Great Britain and , above all , the USSR . |
| 29 | They argued that an ultra-right political movement could be possible only when its language and assumptions had first become an accepted part of the Federal Republic 's political discourse . |
| 30 | When entertaining , much depends on the kind of entertainment you like , and what adaptations may be possible so that it is still a pleasure and not a strain . |