Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you Mr revealed something new , I hope you do n't , there may of been two if not three editions |
| 2 | I would of thought you 'd of been better if you just well just sit down then love . |
| 3 | er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't |
| 4 | And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it . |
| 5 | Could of been nice as well though ! |
| 6 | I , you know , I just I would of been alright if it was a bit more organised I do n't |
| 7 | We should have left it there could of been more than this one . |
| 8 | But might of been might of been more because erm , tt she 's had a , a grant for so much |
| 9 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 10 | You require the binary skill of being absent when present , and present when absent . |
| 11 | They were whispering for no reason except that the dim light and the sense of being awake when everyone else was asleep suggested it . |
| 12 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 13 | There is a vast array of both scientific and anecdotal evidence for the existence of states of being other than the physical , and there are various ways of understanding such states . |
| 14 | Things , in other words , were once again in the condition of being other than what they seemed . |
| 15 | In such an extreme climate , these cave dwellings have the distinct advantage of being cooler than surface structures in summer , and warmer in winter . |
| 16 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 17 | Have we therefore exhausted all possibilities of being clearer as to what we are talking about ? |
| 18 | Parker 's study of caring within marriage has wider significance for understanding of both the experience of caring and the realities of being disabled than its title might suggest . |
| 19 | I do find the habit of ministers of being bloody when things go wrong a trying feature of this job . |
| 20 | Clearly , those businesses that foresee the critical changes that will affect plans , and are flexible enough to do something about them , will have a far better chance of being successful than those who can not or will not . |
| 21 | Most experts advise that if you have made up your mind to stop smoking , you will probably stand a better chance of being successful if you can go ‘ cold turkey ’ — in other words , stop smoking all at once . |
| 22 | I 've not , Alastair accused me of being topical because of a member of the royal family this week this is not the reason but I 've gone for Leotard in the one twenty five at Cheltenham . |
| 23 | The elimination diet is fairly stringent , and there is a risk of being undernourished because milk-production makes heavy demands on your body . |
| 24 | Evidently it is no use to describe x as having the property of being greater than y ; and , correspondingly , y as having the property of being smaller than x . |
| 25 | Nevertheless there were times when Alexander Ramsay had to admit to himself that he found all this , essential and worth while as it certainly was , somehow less than satisfying after all the excitements of the recent past ; a feeling of being understretched as it were , less than fully challenged . |
| 26 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 27 | They can be as immodest and as positive as you like — although the risk of being embarrassed if other people find them has to be taken into account . |
| 28 | Well I know , I mean especially if you know the people , what 's the point of being formal if you know the people ? |
| 29 | doing more to get people to be proud of being bald than you are ? |
| 30 | The top animals can displace the bottom ones at feeding sites and gain other environmental advantages by virtue of being tougher than their group companions . |