Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents with young children are constantly prey to the comments of well-meaning friends and relations convinced that little Freddie 's or Jemima 's nose , cheek or chin is the spitting image of some great-aunt or other . |
| 2 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 3 | For good measure there are also bangles in a combination of either silver and rosewood or padouk and copper which are tastefully represent at an angle on neatly placed , shallow paper cones . |
| 4 | If you 're keen to invest in property and you 're particularly flush at the moment , you 'll be interested to know that all this could be yours for thirty thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her . |
| 6 | But there are still fish in the harbour . |
| 7 | Lord Denning said that the result would have been otherwise if the plaintiff had been e.g. hit in the eye by a shot from a negligent sportsman . |
| 8 | That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it . |
| 9 | Until economic growth returns , there would appear to be little respite for the industry 's labour force . |
| 10 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 11 | I would n't be much use at a party . ’ |
| 12 | He has seen that the Masai stories and dreams are not going to be much use in the years to come . |
| 13 | ‘ My girl , Helen , landed on the deck a bit heavily in the jump-off of the Foxhunter and had to go home early , so I 'm without labour at the moment . |
| 14 | However , the structure and type of interpersonal relationships varies ; most importantly , an individual 's personal network might be relatively closeknit in the sense that the ties contracted with others are dense and multiplex . |
| 15 | The cards have got ta be firmly put on the table . |
| 16 | You are then go on a course and you are selected . |
| 17 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 18 | ‘ They were desperately unhip at the start , and they probably still are . |
| 19 | We had no injections , we were just put in a chair and , and it cost |
| 20 | By the mid-1970s , they had shown that during habituation in the isolated ganglion there was a steady decrease in the amount of serotonin released from the sensory presynaptic terminal , without there being any change in the responsiveness of the postsynaptic serotonin receptors . |
| 21 | Many reports of resistant bacteria are based on their exposures to disinfectants to which quite normal bacteria are simply not susceptible or the result of poor practice where a perfectly adequate disinfectant has failed , through misuse or indifferent management , without there being any change in the nature of the bacteria . |
| 22 | If the employer failed to comply with an order to reinstate , the maximum special award is the greater of £20,100 or 156 weeks ' pay without there being any limit on a week 's pay . |
| 23 | How far can we continue to speak in terms of the sphere of society as being clearly separate from the sphere of the state ? |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted to find out what you were really like behind the rock-star image . |
| 25 | Its planning and management were reportedly rent with the schisms for which the left is sometimes ridiculed . |
| 26 | Well , that 's much use from the point of view of getting to know him , is it . |
| 27 | ‘ But that 's enough work for the evening , Watson . |
| 28 | At the same time ministers received the Treasury 's best guess about the country 's economic prospects . |
| 29 | ( Chicago is already host to the country 's first pollution trading operation — see ED 59/60 ) . |
| 30 | It 's just change for the sake of it . ’ |