Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The debate should not endlessly be about tactics , it becomes self-defeating to go on and on and on wrangling about tactics when it is the motivation behind those tactics that holds the key .
2 Investment can only be in companies or funds that qualify under the BES rules .
3 Children will only be in children 's wards and parents will be able to stay with a child throughout treatment .
4 Where O or S passes are listed in the requirements for entry to a particular faculty or to a specific course , these must normally be at grades 1 , 2 or 3 for S grade , or grade C or better ( 7 or better from 1994 ) for O/GCSE .
5 It may not be to women 's advantage , but it is there , and it acknowledges the power , albeit negative , of women 's cycles of fertility .
6 It 's just not good enough , it 's every time he gets some new feathers and as an officer of the Roman Imperial Army he must not be without feathers .
7 The campaign would not be about personalities , he stressed , but about the stark choice between internationalism and nationalism .
8 Unlike Hobbes , however , he allows that ideas or concepts can be general , universal , or abstract , and need not be of particulars .
9 ‘ Not till the next time you come , anyway , and that might not be for ages . ’
10 Such people have been dubbed ‘ carbohydrate cravers ’ by researchers , but many now think that the primary craving may not be for carbohydrates but for fats .
11 As Fineman acknowledges , the anecdote may not be at odds with the general sense but , as we observe with New Historicism 's use of anecdote , it is difficult to determine its relation to the general with any satisfaction .
12 The exceptions are that , unlike riot and violent disorder , the offence can be committed only when the violence is directed towards the person rather than property , and the threats can not be by words alone ; they must be at least accompanied by threatening gestures .
13 ( He would not be among strangers ; among those preceding him at that limbo for disgraced generals were the unfortunate Bapst , de Bonneval and Chretien . )
14 As for the doctrinal impediments , Wilkins pointed out that intelligent inhabitants need not be like humans .
15 Peter Forbes on why words should not be like numbers
16 Certally , she would make an authoritive statement on behalf of the gummunt , though it would not be in monosybils , for which we should all be grayful .
17 This is an area which is only susceptible to research via detailed investigation which , however it is carried out , certainly can not be in terms of the ‘ normality ’ of disabled people , since its concerns must be to explicate the kinds and degrees of difference between the needs of impaired people and the general population , and with the multifarious features of ‘ normal ’ social life which prevent disabled people from being ‘ normal ’ .
18 The explanation can not be in terms of Carol 's lack of competence in Creole , since she displays a knowledge of Creole forms throughout the conversation .
19 If calomel is given in cholera it should obviously not be in pills , as Dr Dunstaple suggests , but as a powder for the sake of better diffusion . "
20 It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast .
21 Doctors forecast that only half the people who stopped smoking will still be off cigarettes in a year .
22 You 'd still be in estates division
23 The common features of a course for future accountants , managers , bankers and teachers are to be found in the educational purposes of the academic study of literatures and languages — and where these include study of language it must still be in terms of common interests and not the sectional approach of linguistics for language teachers .
24 So , interceptions/corrections will always be on headings which are the desired Track plus/minus the angle which you decide to use .
25 A Snotling unit must always be within 12″ of an Orc or Goblin unit and will move to within this distance during the movement phase if it finds itself further away .
26 He could not possibly be on steroids : he is too damn skinny .
27 Established villages are likely to be of type A , that is , closed and integrated ; transitional villages will probably be of types C or D , that is , closed or open but disintegrated , while the re-established village is likely to be of type B , which is open and integrated .
28 Some of Mr Mellor 's favourite orchestras will probably be among companies handed over , albeit kicking and screaming .
29 The learner 's first reading will probably be from captions to paintings or drawings , captions written by the teacher using the words of the artist .
30 This would probably be in hotels along the coast , although not necessarily in Llandudno where many of the hotels had been inundated .
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