Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 2 | Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions . |
| 3 | You would be better off in the personnel department . |
| 4 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 5 | Ever-changing regulations cause stress both because of the need to become familiar with new rules and because of the sensitivity needed to cope with clients who may be worse off after the changes . |
| 6 | I mean increasingly we see that we 're , we get more constables here more constables there , but they do n't ever appear to be actually out on the streets , and until we can get more men on the streets with the deterrent effect that their appearance has , let alone anything else , we are not gon na get much further . |