Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be Godlike and grin sheepishly |
| 2 | We are all agreed as to what ought to happen , but we have to be realistic and question how it can be made to happen . |
| 3 | Publication tended to be erratic and material often hard to come by but I usually managed to get three or four copies to press every year . |
| 4 | ‘ Both groups tend to be calm and function well under pressure . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 6 | As each hole in the glass joins to the next , water movement is claimed to be self-perpetuating but oxygen only reaches the outer surfaces . |