Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 2 | So any knife you might have in your hand had better be put back in its sheath ! ’ |
| 3 | Never mind the crater in the window , never mind the tyres with several thousand miles scraped off their lives , never mind some brand new little glitch that had better be sorted out a.s.a.p. in the cab 's suspension . |
| 4 | It was a protective capability , I 'd heard — a black mist that could suddenly be blown out in a huge , binding cloud . |
| 5 | ‘ That was a dream move for him and meant a big transformation for a lad of his age to suddenly be pitched in with the stars at Liverpool , ’ said England Under-21 boss Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 6 | Nor could much be shaved off of AML 's purchasing inventory , Connolly hide and bespoke cylinders being notoriously inflexible on pricing . |
| 7 | Some word processing functions will apparently be bucked up and international versions are due soon , including localizing it for the company 's new exclusive Japanese distributor Sumisho Electronics . |
| 8 | Estimates will apparently be pitched slightly lower than comparable items in Western sales , and payment can be made in any Western currency . |
| 9 | He praised Scipio Aemilianus ' generosity to his relatives by remarking : " Such conduct would naturally be admired anywhere , but in Rome it was a marvel ; for absolutely no one there ever gives away anything to anyone if he can help it " ( 31.26.9 ) . |
| 10 | Two other factors are worth mentioning here because they are often given as reasons for dispersals that could not obviously be justified otherwise . |
| 11 | For example , some really hard cases write adoring letters to Judith Chalmers and should obviously be banged up in solitary confinement without a moment 's delay . |
| 12 | The detailed and time-consuming clerical procedures needed to record issues , sizes of stock categories and other stock data can obviously be undertaken more cost-effectively by computers . |
| 13 | In class societies this process will obviously be mediated primarily — though not exclusively — through class relationships and class conflict . |
| 14 | It has got inherent checks and balances , it has its own agreement , it is professionally run and there is no function for the president of the FISA here other than to turn up occasionally and literally be seen about . |
| 15 | I have an advertisement for CIA survival knives which states that it ’ is a superb high tech fibreglass filled nylon construction knife which weighs just 20 gm. due to its double edge , spear point and double fluted reinforced spine , tremendous plunging power — it can literally be driven straight through a telephone directory ( remains undetected by airport metal detectors ) ’ . |
| 16 | On the status dimension , husband-wife equality can not merely be assumed either . |
| 17 | Demand would merely be driven underground , prices would rise and the potential profits available to criminal syndicates — and to corrupt politicians and government officials — would rise accordingly . |
| 18 | ‘ In this weather they should more or less be thawed out . |
| 19 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 20 | Each must constantly be presented anew , only to disappear again . |
| 21 | Each must constantly be made anew , only to be covered again . |
| 22 | The changes must have been as great as those in western Europe after 1789 , but their impact could only be traced piecemeal . |
| 23 | He found that some of his Pound negatives could only be printed effectively with platinum paper , which has a very long tonal range . |
| 24 | Their curvatures can only be obtained rigorously from the solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 25 | The two older seated men can only be fitted in as they are in fig. 124 : behind the chariot on our right ; and next the figure in the other angle . |
| 26 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 27 | The fleece should only be gathered up when it is dry for storage to avoid mould developing . |
| 28 | As to whether it has also increased proportionally is a matter that could only be determined empirically , although one could surmise that it has so increased . |
| 29 | In the 15 subjects in whom antral and upper intestinal recordings were not available , the relation to phase 3 of the migrating motor complex could only be determined indirectly by the temporal relation of non-deglutitive pressure waves in the oesophageal body with the non-deglutitive plastic contractions of the lower oesophageal sphincter ( this represented the sphincteric component of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex that occurred during the 10- 15 minute period preceding phase 3 in the antrum or proximal jejunum , as shown previously by others . ) |
| 30 | The latter might be comparable in date to the Kingscote mosaic , but as that itself can only be assigned tentatively to c. 325 , this association must be considered inconclusive . |