Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oxygen is much less soluble in water than carbon dioxide and in order for fish life to be sustained it must be replenished as fast as it is used up . |
| 32 | If people are to be punished because they deserve it , it is natural to say that they should also be punished as severely as they deserve — that they should get their just deserts . |
| 33 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 34 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 35 | Mr Gillis , the Butcher , was a man to be treated very carefully because he put up with no nonsense , had a vicious temper and he bore grudges . |
| 36 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
| 37 | Your application will be considered more favourably if you take some money with you . |
| 38 | The analogy can be carried even further if we consider what happens as we approach the stall . |
| 39 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 40 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 41 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 42 | Both pvc and butyl liners can be repaired quite simply once you find the hole or tear , but if it 's a small one it may be troublesome to locate . |
| 43 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 44 | The judgement could be applied more widely than its immediate target . |
| 45 | She is expected to be seen only briefly as she steps from her wedding car — a four wheel drive Range Rover — into the church . |
| 46 | Perhaps the distinction I want to draw can be seen more clearly if we start with an example involving size rather than colour . |
| 47 | This aspect of option premiums may be seen more clearly if we look at calls and puts with the same exercise price but with different expiry dates . |
| 48 | It 's more fun and is likely to be done more regularly if you share your exercise sessions with a neighbour or friend . |
| 49 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 50 | The Bishop : ‘ I think it is a very balanced and very clear statement of how we should be living so far as our sexuality is concerned . ’ |
| 51 | Stating these two objectives , the choice does n't seem easy to me — SoftBench is streets ahead in the market and Thomson would be acting very peculiarly if it did n't use Atherton internally . |
| 52 | In two weeks he will go to Germany for rehabilitation , and , by his doctor 's ‘ most optimistic expections ’ , could be training as hard as he was in July by the end of December . |
| 53 | Mr Murphy also raised the issue of why Navan Resources wished to mine andalusite when it can be manufactured more cheaply than it can be mined : ‘ Maybe because it is gold — there is gold there but the problem with gold is getting it out , because that is a very difficult process which involves the use of cyanide as a metal wash ’ . |
| 54 | Because the characters can be transmitted much faster than they can be printed they are stored , in the printer , in a block of memory known as a buffer . |
| 55 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 56 | What this approach soon reveals is that you often spend large amounts of time not on the things that matter but on activities which are relatively easy to devote time to , while the more difficult tasks tend to be pushed aside simply because they are more difficult . |
| 57 | I be relaxing now just when I yawn . |
| 58 | And erm they were determined that we should all work near as proficient in milking to go and take over , so we had to learn to hand milk , to use three different types of milking machines and to do all the necessary sterilizing and everything else , so that we could be used straight away when we got to the farm . |
| 59 | Less than a quarter of contests ever reach the final , antler pushing stage , and even then the deer stag only pushes its opponent 's antlers rather than trying to spike his softer flanks ; antlers could perhaps be used more dangerously than they are . |
| 60 | UK services companies seem to be valued more highly than their US siblings |