Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of auditory stimulation at birth or shortly after is therefore not simply a loss of some hearing experience , but may create a loss of potential auditory processing at a later stage . |
| 2 | Some schools , e.g. in East London and Liverpool , adjusted their hours to take account of the needs of poorer children both for earnings and education , beginning or ending the school day later or earlier than was the custom , enabling schoolchildren to work before or after school . |
| 3 | This can be achieved by ensuring that we fall within the exemption contained in Section 60(1) of the Companies Act , which states that an offer or invitation is not to be treated as made to the public ‘ if it can properly be regarded , in all the circumstances , as not being calculated to result , directly or indirectly , in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer or invitation , or otherwise as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it ’ . |
| 4 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 5 | ‘ The greatest damage to Israel , ’ says Meir Amit , a former head of the intelligence agency , ‘ is that rather than being known as producers in agriculture , in genetics , or in medicine , our trademark is the security business . ’ |
| 6 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 7 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 8 | Both denied that the underlying causes of the Reformation which he had identified had actually existed , claiming that rather than being an institution in terminal decline , the late medieval Catholic church had been ‘ a lively and relevant social institution ’ , displaying ‘ growing and vigorous ’ forms of piety . |
| 9 | He had been discovered by a member of the crew and rather than be handed over to US Immigration officials had allowed himself to be buggered by three of the sailors , including the Captain . |
| 10 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 11 | The feelings he or she gets when ‘ kicked ’ are comfortingly familiar and better than being ignored . |
| 12 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 13 | To a large extent this is due to a natural tendency , already mentioned earlier , to simplify the whole issue by treating experiences as logically on a par with other phenomena , and hence as being tractable with the help of basically the same conceptual machinery . |
| 14 | And the new life , the Christian life , is described concisely and clearly as being different from the old way . |
| 15 | Monumental architecture in Greece was first developed in temples and long largely confined to sanctuaries ; and sculpture in the archaic period and even after is exclusively associated with religion . |
| 16 | They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock . |
| 17 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 18 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 19 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 20 | Quite a few young men paid her attention and wanted to court her , but rather than be out ‘ winching ’ ( courting ) she preferred the company of mother and the family . |
| 21 | But rather than be accused of overstating my case , I will leave the figure at somewhere between 550 and 1,000 . |
| 22 | The episodes with the Amazons occupy the centre of the book , but rather than being unconnected with Artegall 's Irish quest , they are linked . |
| 23 | We do n't normally think of them as being anxious , but simply as being hard to catch , too nervous to ride , or unreliable in competition . |
| 24 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 25 | Yeah , but er normally Alan er organizes this with our car park warden , but unfortunately as was stated it was struck with the flu . |
| 26 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 27 | Brandon Gough , chairman of Coopers , said that heads of agreement have been signed and that the merger would be put into effect ‘ as soon as is practicable ’ . |
| 28 | Most of these changes are very minor , but where they are significant , we will inform you or your travel agent when you book or , if you have already booked , as soon as is reasonably possible if there is time before your departure . |
| 29 | If a major change becomes necessary , we will inform you or your travel agent as soon as is reasonably possible if there is time before your departure . |
| 30 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |