Example sentences of "be [adj] [be] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you prefer to eat soft cheeses when they begin to be runny or at a slightly earlier stage when they are chalkier is simply a matter of personal taste . |
| 2 | If you do notice something unusual which you are sure is not a software problem , then you should take a careful look for the cause or things will just get worse , possibly with more serious consequences . |
| 3 | That planning has been poor is more the fault of the economy than BR , the high interest rates at the end of 1989 being seen as likely to repeat the recession of 1981 out of which we climbed so painfully . |
| 4 | Slowly , as I 'm afraid is always the case . |
| 5 | The time at which these two factors must be present is when the statement is made . |
| 6 | For example , ( a ) damage to paths , is also caused by walkers , witness the problems of erosion on many popular tracks ; ( b ) the passage of cyclists requires walkers to step aside ( ! ! ) — this and para ( c ) sound really churlish , I might almost say childish , and give the impression of an RA membership composed entirely of geriatrics — which I 'm sure is not the case . |
| 7 | The idea that competition for audience share would be virtuous was thus an innovation . |
| 8 | Indeed this emerges immediately from the fact that adjectives which are plainly non-restrictive can accompany proper names : ( 4 ) the eloquent Dryden is too learned for some tastes clever Polly left before they called for volunteers Even if we accept the view , less than universally supported , that proper names do have meaning , being clever is certainly no part of the name Polly on the type level , nor is eloquence of the name Dryden . |
| 9 | Being famous was never the point . |
| 10 | Now , though , I am saying that being reasonable is partly a matter of falling in with the conventions — in time and place — of an intellectual form of life or culture ; and this surely raises the spectre of relativism . |
| 11 | All eyes of course will be on Cheltenham where John Taylor will be trying to prove that being black is not a bar to becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament . |
| 12 | Being Black was n't a problem . |
| 13 | Being married is probably a hindrance . ’ |
| 14 | Being Fat is not a Sin , by Shelley Bovey ( Pandora 1988 ) talks about the prejudice and oppression suffered by fat people , particularly women , and about ways to feel good about yourself which do n't involve losing weight . |
| 15 | The injury w£flared up again at the end of the year , but at least gave him a brief respite to demonstrate that being 40 was not a barrier likely to hold him back . |
| 16 | But being nice is hardly a virtue , you know . |
| 17 | The conclusion that could be drawn from this argument is that is not a phoneme of English , but is an allophone of several different vowel phonemes when those phonemes occur in an unstressed syllable . |
| 18 | That is that is where the migration projections have come from . |
| 19 | That is that is always a danger . |
| 20 | Well that 's that 's when the tax man starts getting fishy and you 've got to know |
| 21 | That 's that 's when the trouble is . |
| 22 | Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the |
| 23 | Well that 's that 's why the gas , gas and electric |
| 24 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 25 | Yeah , I mean that 's that 's not a problem any more . |
| 26 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 27 | We 'll look , we 'll actually look at the processes of deep water formation tomorrow , so you 'll actually see how the waters are formed , but the reason why this is high is basically the act of A , low biological activity removing it and B , the fact that the source waters have not come from below , they 've come in horizontally from an area where they were formed which was very rich in oxygen . |
| 28 | No this this is this is just a maths paper . |
| 29 | Now the probability of any one step being positive or negative is ½ , so that the probability of having , say , r positive steps and n — r negative ones is This is not the probability of arriving at the point m = r = ( n-r ) =2r-n , however , since the successive steps may be taken in different ways . |
| 30 | which is this is not an H P Laserjet Two D. |