Example sentences of "be [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's nowhere he 'd rather be than back in his native Enniskillen — where he can unashamedly lead life at a crawling pace . |
| 2 | They are 56 : ‘ Sweet love , renew thy force ; be it not said/Thy edge should blunter be than appetite ’ which expresses a feeling of temporarily spent force . |
| 3 | Old Mother Jacobsen would chuckle over this : ‘ How much wiser must I be than Odin , I who have neither eye ! ’ |
| 4 | Think what a different world it would be if Anthony Cheetham had done that instead of starting Century . |
| 5 | The examples from the Questor data management system were designed to demonstrate just how simple computing can be if users take advantage of the powerful software that is available . |
| 6 | It follows that attempting to reduce error rates by one person checking another 's performance or automatically comparing the output of the individuals simultaneously performing the same task is not as effective as it would be if errors in the sources were independent ( Chapanis et al . , |
| 7 | Not only are astronomy and chemistry reducible to physics ; but also biology is — or would be if physicists put any effort into making it so : |
| 8 | Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days . |
| 9 | ‘ I would be if Kate were happy . ’ |
| 10 | It was not possible to indicate what the premium would be if cover were to be provided automatically , because the BMIF was a separate body and was not prepared to consider this . |
| 11 | The price of such goods is less than it would be if producers had to take account of the external costs associated with the production of the good . |
| 12 | If indeed , therefore , this land performs a significant function with regard to the character of Skelton , one should have regard to what the effect on that character would be if development were , development of any kind . |
| 13 | Some of my advisers think the simplest solution would be if Tweed never came back . ’ |
| 14 | Those rules are not immutable ; at each level , the rules can be bent and perhaps have to be if progress is to be made . |
| 15 | What would distress me would be if Scotland were not able in such a process to express democratically her own voice and her own vision of the European future and of the future of Scotland in Europe . |
| 16 | I would like to go further , however , and suggest that the best outcome would be if discretion over monetary policy were removed altogether from the hands of the Treasury and the Bank of England and legislated by Parliament in terms of a monetary rule . |
| 17 | Melanie tried to grasp how dreadful it would be if Finn were dead but she could not think coherently because of the terrible sound of Aunt Margaret 's silence . |
| 18 | She felt the only possible solution to the situation would be if Liza were to marry again ; but with the girl 's precarious mental state and lack of contact with the outside world , this hardly seemed likely . |
| 19 | Accountants Coopers & Lybrand yesterday spelled out just how inflationary Labour 's tax plans could be if employers try to preserve their top staff 's living standards . |
| 20 | What sort of a world would it be if people just turned their backs on things like this ? ’ |
| 21 | It will probably only be if Nesta decides to up and leave him that he 'll actually crumble . |
| 22 | And if you look at the professions where women predominate , for example primary teaching and to some measure secondary teaching as well , and in nursing , erm we know that they 're underpaid professions , and I think that if you look at most of the work where women are predominant you 'll find that the pay is less than it would be if men were doing it erm |
| 23 | Does ‘ business as usual ’ make the trade-off between guns and butter easier than it would be if embargoes were more comprehensive and controls more strict ? |
| 24 | In the absence of keen pricing from the Japanese , the competitive element in the UK market is reduced and therefore car prices are generally higher than they would be if market forces were allowed to operate freely . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , it would be if David were here , ’ replied Sybil . |
| 26 | The most unsatisfactory outcome of LMS in this context would be if schools felt obliged to return to the traditional concept , so inimical to professional and curricular development , of there being just two professional roles in primary schools , those of class teacher and head , each confined to and jealously defending his or her territory . |
| 27 | The worst scenario for Nicky , I imagined , would be if Enya suddenly fell in love with another producer . |
| 28 | ‘ Which there might be if Eileen Harman decided to make an issue of it . ’ |
| 29 | These observations on human language learning , coupled with evolutionary speculations make one realise just what a formidable accomplishment it would be if apes could be taught the use of a communication system remotely approximating a natural language in creativity , recursiveness , and the extreme conventionality revealed in such matters as reference to spatio-temporally remote items or counterfactual conditionalising or universal generalisation about an unsurveyed domain . |
| 30 | What a peaceful world it would be if religion could be banished completely . |