Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tone of the cymbals played thus is much inferior to that produced when a cymbal can be held so that both are free to vibrate equally when clashed together . |
| 2 | BOARDS : There are a number of different boards you 're likely to come across while foraging around inside a PC . |
| 3 | Market forms of supply are likely to increase rather than reduce the maldistribution of wealth . |
| 4 | You may be someone who has acknowledged biases and prejudices which are hard to set aside when making decisions , but which might lead you to overlook a suitable candidate if you did not use the job and personnel specifications as your guideline . |
| 5 | Over the years , sensitive tutor-organisers , with the personality to work harmoniously with Federation and branch officers , have consistently been able to promote rather than to threaten voluntaryism . |
| 6 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 7 | I think that may be easier to do rather than do them in situ , you know ? |
| 8 | Registering 30.80 , Davy McClenaghan 's black bitch was always holding the staying-on Mineola Gift and she 'll be hard to beat again if beating Express to the corner . |
| 9 | Anybody who thought that P90s were a little bit old hat would be sure to think again when confronted with this guitar , because they sound just right . |
| 10 | They agreed to extract oil quickly , but argued they would not be able to do so if hindered by trifling safety regulations that applied to on-shore industries . |
| 11 | In the General Staff 's view , instabilities in Britain 's overseas territories were likely to grow rather than decline as Sandys hoped . |
| 12 | Children soon take advantage of this inconsistency and the ensuing reward not only negates any potential influence of the punishment ( misbehaviour is likely to increase rather than decrease ) but debases the currency of the parent 's words and deeds . |
| 13 | There 's the often quoted comparison with our compatriots overseas that it 's cheaper to go overseas than stay at home , but I think , you know , with the range of accommodation , with the range of holidays now available in this country , I think the industry itself is competing very well and that the more and more people who find that they have n't yet discovered Britain will do so this year . |
| 14 | But when you think if you go to your corner shop and you , you do n't want a lot it 's cheaper to go there than to get in a car |
| 15 | Do n't be tempted to overdose the fish — it 's better to use less when treating with herbal remedies . |
| 16 | Even if the second pre-condition is met , Albert Reynolds is unlikely to go further than to promise that a referendum would be held , if everything else was agreed . |
| 17 | The question is difficult to answer especially when complicated by the possibility of re-use . |
| 18 | He appreciates their design features : what a kangaroo gains and loses by moving in leaps , why horses change gait , why it is harder to walk quickly than to jog at an easy pace . |
| 19 | Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier ; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want . |
| 20 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 21 | US and Mexican anti-drug officials suggested that the army was present to protect rather than to detain the drug shipment . |
| 22 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |