Example sentences of "be [adv] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of the grouping being accidental are effectively nil ; we are dealing with a true star-cluster . |
| 2 | Part of the trick of a successful television documentary is to make each comment delivered within it sound spontaneous : they are rarely anything of the sort . |
| 3 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 4 | There are apparently lots of meetings going on , COSE having been divided into technology , product management and business sectors . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been exactly nothing to each other , ’ he said curtly , lifting her hand and dropping it as though it were poisonous to touch . |
| 6 | I am not one for the bright lights . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not one for shilly-shallying , as well you know , Forest — in the event , I should make sure you were Will Slaughter 's next victim . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I am not one for settling for mid-season mediocrity — it 's all or nothing for me . |
| 9 | I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution . |
| 10 | Since I am not one to judge on first impressions I stepped tentatively inside . |
| 11 | I am not one to accuse the hon. Gentleman of misrepresenting the position ; I know and like him too much for that . |
| 12 | I am not one who crawls , but I feel bound to respond to such attacks on my right hon. Friend . |
| 13 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 14 | Still , too , there are generally lots of repetitive and conventionalized elements ( rifts , and so on ) ; and still there is a tendency to favour ‘ the most primitive harmonic facts ’ and standard phrase-lengths . |
| 15 | Erika has been away plenty of times , and if Fräulein Silber thinks that it is the right thing to do then it is the right thing . |
| 16 | I am already one down to Imran , having declared that Waqar did not have the action of a genuine fast bowler . |
| 17 | There are already plenty of pointers and anomalies , and I 'd like to go through them with you to try to sift out the red herrings and give due precedence to the important facts . |
| 18 | ‘ The year above us did n't leave , so there are already plenty of qualified accountants . |
| 19 | Let us then take our compass ; we are something , and we are not everything . |
| 20 | Looks are not everything . |
| 21 | Blood sucking leeches , wild weather and breathlessness at high altitude are not everyone 's cup of tea . |
| 22 | The ones with long wrist cuffs are not everyone 's favourite , but I insist on them . |
| 23 | Some of his characters are very clever indeed , but jokes about colostomy bags and babies who drink gin and mug social workers are not everybody 's cup of cocoa . |
| 24 | Timetables are not everybody 's favourite reading . |
| 25 | Please print this letter because I want people to know that horses are not something that you can forget . |
| 26 | Wire fences are not something that wild elephants encounter every day , so this behaviour could hardly have been learned , still less inherited . |
| 27 | The hours of the examination are not something distinct and separate from the rest of your preparation , but are more like the final short sprint to the tape . |
| 28 | The new law recognises that both parents continue to be responsible for their children even when they are separated or divorced : children are not something to be ‘ won or lost ’ in divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | Increasingly , plants are seen as an integral part of any office complex and are not something to be considered only during a refurbishment or initial build . |
| 30 | " Catches of dolphins and porpoises are not something we hear about all that often " , he said . |