Example sentences of "[conj] be [pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 2 | Are you saving up , reading about business management , surveying the market , giving yourself a deadline — or are you just wistfully dreaming over the cash register , with no intention of making your dream a reality ? |
| 3 | Whether individual soldiers misjudged their situation yesterday , or were themselves too directly threatened , can not yet be known . |
| 4 | Recent research shows the disillusionment is more widespread and no longer confined to the late thirties or early forties : nor is it just about career blockage or perceived failure . |
| 5 | While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way . |
| 6 | Nor was it well enough coordinated to give the Ministry of Internal Affairs a clear run . |
| 7 | And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin ? |
| 8 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 9 | Came over and was there just now got to do some shopping or something . |
| 10 | But am I strong enough to watch him trying to fly over things and skim around things and fritter energy and search ? |
| 11 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 12 | But were you not here to greet me I would miss you . ’ |
| 13 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 14 | ‘ But is it all right to eat Grandson Richard 's sandwich ? ’ |