Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wise up ’ the powers that be or else all last year 's good work will be lost forever . |
| 2 | So what 's the what 's the average gon na be or even the mean ? |
| 3 | She heard voices which at first made little sense , could not , for the moment , think where she might be or even who she was . |
| 4 | Can Pascal object code be linked to Clipper as C can be or indeed can any object code like basic be linked to Clipper . |
| 5 | Under it , the only change from the existing primary voting system would be that instead of placing one ‘ X ’ against the name of a favoured candidate , the voter would put ‘ 1 ’ against his first choice , ‘ 2 ’ against his second choice , etc . |
| 6 | It may well be that instead of wellbeing , IT will bring about |
| 7 | Yeah , maybe they will be that later on |
| 8 | er it could be that either we 're not recovering costs on , on that basis or |
| 9 | And erm er my view would be that either of the north north east or southern sectors could accommodate suitable levels of development to meet local need . |
| 10 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 11 | So what you 're s so what you 're saying is that erm one of the consequences could be that even as people are being rehoused from , one of the risks is that other people who are on the h waiting list |
| 12 | Molla Fenari and Seyh Bedreddin shared a devotion to the thought of Ibn al-Arabi , and it may well be that even if Molla Fenari thoroughly disapproved of the rebels ' activities he was compromised in the eyes of many by those shared beliefs . |
| 13 | Its effect will be that even if property passes earlier to the buyer , the goods will remain at the seller 's risk until their arrival . |
| 14 | The implication for memory research of the above research on road sign detection appears to be that even when objects have been initially detected by a driver and the driver 's behaviour has been appropriately modified by their presence , the driver may not be able to describe the object even very shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | It may be that even though certain aspects of the superego do not develop , other , different ones might do so instead ; or it might be that , in the absence of a superego which forbids parricide and incest , an individual might develop some other kind of superego with other , perhaps analogous prohibitions . |
| 16 | How can it be that here , on a north-facing cliff , with nothing between it and the North pole and situated more than 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle , the vegetation can look like that . |
| 17 | The important aspect of the relative clause proposal seems to be that both relative clause and postnominal adjective share the characteristics of linking an adjective to its head noun by the relation of assignment , not simple qualification , while remaining within the same entity-identifying phrase as that noun . |
| 18 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
| 19 | Could it not be that today 's mania for ‘ disseminating ’ and ‘ promoting ’ culture expressions which should be banned has actually caused the prevailing sterility ? |
| 20 | It may then be that today situations where men alone are priests , or equally the fact that Christ is a male symbol and God is conceptualized using male metaphors , may make God appear to be ‘ male ’ in a way in which this was not earlier the case . |
| 21 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 22 | But it just may be that now , when we 've got rid of so many wrong ideas , now , at last , is the moment when we might be able to frame — an answer . ’ |
| 23 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether this suggestion will become law , but the only really confident prediction must be that so long as capitalism remains , trusts will continue to change and develop so as to meet changes in social conditions and the tax structure . |
| 25 | The principal explanation is likely to be that so characteristic of English educational provision , where the strength of local initiatives is also a weakness ; where central government 's desire to support and disseminate a variety of innovative practices at the local level can lead to confusion and contradiction in national policy-making . |
| 26 | One reason for this relative neglect may be that so many earlier surveys gave such clear and unequivocal results : at virtually every stage of education , by virtually every criterion of achievement , middle-class children had higher levels of achievement than working-class children . |
| 27 | Not at the time no it did n't it bothered me when it was done because I thought you 've probably done something and the outcome would be that so at the time it did n't bother me because I was n't interested in the situation |
| 28 | It may be that under more natural conditions their effect on men would be very different . |
| 29 | Of course , it may be that under certain circumstances a more autocratic relationship is appropriate . |
| 30 | It may be that under certain circumstances one of the alternative methods of valuation is the most appropriate . |