Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the threat of disturbing the order — an order hard worked for and not to be upset because surely worse would replace it . |
| 2 | It involves beliefs such as ‘ There is n't enough to go round ’ , ‘ I never have enough money ’ , ‘ Money does n't grow on trees ’ , ‘ You have to work hard for what you want ’ , ‘ If I have more , others have less ’ , ‘ Better save for a rainy day ’ and ‘ It 's immoral to be rich when so many people are starving and homeless . ’ |
| 3 | Shareholders and reason for sale ( may be unnecessary if fully covered above ) |
| 4 | I think that would be ample cos usually there 's only two of them |
| 5 | Both Tinniswood and Nobbs understand that comedy can be subtle as well as slapstick ; and Nobbs is still very concerned with his chosen trade . |
| 6 | Your so-called reporter , who thinks Scott Reynolds ca n't sing , must be deaf as well as unbelievably fucking stupid . |
| 7 | Your so-called reporter , who thinks Scott Reynolds ca n't sing , must be deaf as well as unbelievably fucking stupid . |
| 8 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 9 | Notice that while doing this you are vulnerable to being pulled over , so your body position should be lower than ever . |
| 10 | Heat has entered the debate because the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) has submitted secret advice to the Home Office which claims that deaths after an attack may be lower than almost any published estimate — and certainly lower than those predicted by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) , which has the statutory responsibility to advise the government on radiation hazards . |
| 11 | The unexpected reduction in the number of criminal legal aid orders granted over the last few months means that expenditure will in any event be lower than originally expected . |
| 12 | Base-exchange treatment is in the neighbourhood of 1.5–4p per 1000 gal ( 4546 litres ) , automatic systems tending to be lower than manually operated plants . |
| 13 | Even after the latest concession , pension payments would be lower than before . |
| 14 | Though fat with money for research on nuclear weapons and nuclear waste disposal , the US Department of Energy will be leaner than ever . |
| 15 | For example the 1989 Report expressed the hope that there would be regional as well as national programming , that committees would be covered , and that there would be a significant amount of live broadcasting . |
| 16 | If it can not , there may be political as well as economic implications to reckon with . |
| 17 | Many of the trends in France , he believes , are equally observable in other European societies , and the price they will all pay will be political as well as cultural . |
| 18 | Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’ |
| 19 | Withdrawal from conflict can be emotional as well as spatial . |
| 20 | I reckon they 're more likely to be friendly than otherwise . |
| 21 | To be unmasked is to be unspirited as well as undone . |
| 22 | ‘ To be acceptable , recycling has to be cost-effective as well as good for the environment , ’ he explains . |
| 23 | The circumstances in which , and the purposes for which , futures transactions may be undertaken should be specified and it should be indicated whether positions may be off-exchange as well as on-exchange . |
| 24 | It would be sensible if about fifty of these planes could be sent to Korea and the pilots could be found in Korea . |
| 25 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 26 | All this could be different if only the British people were allowed a real stake in the EC . |
| 27 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 28 | 10.7.2.3 to use background and results in carrying out the Project , such use to be free unless otherwise agreed . |
| 29 | And you 've got ta be careful as well at night not to hang on to the tail lights of the thing in from of you |
| 30 | For the groups that eschew unconventional behaviour — and there may be tactical as well as principled reasons for doing so — the focus and target of pressure is likely to be the people who make the laws and policies and/or the people who implement them . |