Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 2 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 3 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |
| 4 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 5 | The problem I think comes when you go when you become insolvent , you know , and I think that 's and so therefore unless we 're going to come up with some system where we do insure our pensions as we do our home , then you , you , you 're still back to the basic contract between a company and an individual . |
| 6 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 7 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
| 8 | The Government 's claim that those on low incomes will be better off under the new scheme , or at least see their financial position protected , is unlikely to be borne out by events . |
| 9 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 10 | You 'd be better off with the English one . ’ |
| 11 | If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run . |
| 12 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 13 | The trouble is , us council owners will be worse off under the Labour council |
| 14 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 15 | In any case , the name of the game here seems to be performance-friendly and so you are immediately in at the sharp end with patch number 11 . |
| 16 | Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% . |
| 17 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 18 | These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ . |
| 19 | Even the way he looked at them was enough to assure her that they were way down on the social scale . |
| 20 | To those who did agree to sell , but now find their acceptance forms are being returned to them , I can only hope that you are not too disappointed at being involuntarily back on the winning side ! |
| 21 | Both Norman Tebbit and John Wakeham were now back after the Grand Hotel blast and the opportunity had been taken to arrange a Cabinet photograph . |
| 22 | ‘ I only played half the games yet we were never out of the top five and qualified for Europe . |
| 23 | I think she 's on back on the right track as well with her . |
| 24 | Nobody has any idea what he 's on about in the mangled trance opening song ‘ Bong ’ , but at least there 's some conviction and fire . |
| 25 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 26 | Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’ |
| 27 | The bridal bouquet is somewhat out of the ordinary , too ! |
| 28 | ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said . |
| 29 | It is an offence to drive when your eyesight is not up to the required standard . |
| 30 | Right now , Kendall is not back at the aristocratic Everton he knew seven years ago . |