Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If you hire an exhibition space or organise an exhibition in your own home or a commercial or other space made available to you without charge , you will obviously be meeting all the costs involved yourself .
2 There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused .
3 Whilst it could only be considered such with the wisdom of hindsight , it was nevertheless seen at the time as a geographically limited episode of a much wider-ranging struggle .
4 Even in the situations where it is appropriate , Creole will only be used some of the time — in fact , a very small proportion of the time , if my informants and their families are typical .
5 This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic .
6 Corinth suffered badly from the war : in a naval building programme in 413 BC she provides only fifteen ships ( to which should perhaps be added another twenty-five operating in the Corinthian Gulf ) .
7 But the success of a small co-op in London called Computercraft could soon be changing all that .
8 Wa looked at the man leaning back in his chair , his black-clad frame resting as nonchalantly as a Rimland puma on a jungle branch , and decided that Gorrin atop Small Gods temple would soon be joining those little deities in the multifold dimensions of Beyond .
9 The wolf crawled along on a stomach , that would soon be digesting some meat
10 Some naturalists argued that all characters should be taken into account when determining relationships , but others claimed that some characters were more fundamental than others and should thus be given more weight .
11 Humans could no longer be allowed any such privileged , mystical feature as free will to distinguish them .
12 It is a widely held prejudice that the closest boxing gets to Art is that the guy who holds the towels at ringside might just be called that .
13 that we do and the courses that everybody goes on , I mean you 'd you you 'd just be spending all your time sort of
14 Could n't Mr Hall just be having some kind of bad day ?
15 I 'd just be offered same as e most of my friends and other people that are une were offered .
16 Sometimes I 'd sooner be doing some other job .
17 But she will probably already be experiencing more loneliness than they imagine , for much as she may enjoy her parent 's company , she will also have a need for other friendships and contacts with the world outside the home , and these may be very difficult for her to achieve .
18 ‘ A Government with any heart and sense would already be pursuing that strategy . ’
19 Adding another five years to any possible sentence seems pointless , especially as some of those involved may already be serving that length of time .
20 Marx believed that by the mid-nineteenth century workers in England could not easily be exploited any more than they were already : for example , the working day could not be any further extended .
21 It can easily be shown that and are found initially , medially and finally , and that no other combination ( e.g. , , ) has such a wide distribution .
22 Leaving aside the fact , to which we will return in a moment , that less skilled people can usually be paid less wages than those who are skilled , an important characteristic of craft workers is that they often exercise tight control as an occupation over the job that they do .
23 " You should n't still be riding that thing .
24 You must still be taking that very seriously ?
25 ‘ I 'd hoped he 'd still be grazing that pasture there . ’
26 Unemployment will still be rising this October ( and for months after that ) — but output should be expanding .
27 He would still be mending that barn door .
28 Mr Slieman may still be spending most of his working day shuffling ever closer to Louise , unaware or uninterested in the magic he and his house create .
29 Wooden shuttering would char in the process , but could still be used several times .
30 A suitable choice of frame can always be made such that the connections and the acceleration vanish locally .
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