Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could of been nice as well though ! |
| 2 | I hate all ordinary dull little people who are n't ashamed of being dull and little . |
| 3 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 4 | Nobody could reasonably dissent from this conclusion , Paley insists , yet that is just what the atheist , in effect , does when he contemplates the works of nature , for : every indication of contrivance , every manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , exists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater or more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation . |
| 5 | The range is so impressive — everything from Lucretius to Tristram Shandy , from Virgil to Kinglake , from Beowulf to T. S. Eliot has been absorbed , not for the sake of being bookish but always — one feels — in an outward-looking manner . |
| 6 | We asked her mother who , in spite of being Jewish and already in a precarious position , did not hesitate for a moment . |
| 7 | This has the obvious advantage of reducing the sheer volume of data to be gathered and processed but the disadvantage of being inflexible and possibly missing significant happenings because the category system did n't allow for them . |
| 8 | But also , and for architects of this period more importantly , the silhouette created by the plan had the advantage of being symmetrical and romantically complex at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | Like Mr Major , Mr Bush is frequently accused of being colourless and too pragmatic . |
| 10 | Many with memories of school retreats that were a matter of being silent and often boring , wonder about the different types of retreat they hear about today . |
| 11 | Overall , Mrs Thatcher 's team gave the impression of being overconfident and inadequately informed . |
| 12 | The man sitting next to her was like a porcelain buddha , rotund and self contained , the skin without a wrinkle despite being fifty or so years old . |
| 13 | revolution 's got ta be violent as well . |
| 14 | it 's got ta be useful because instead of going you know from one sort at one end and going out the other and never being ever seen again it 's going |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Therefore ‘ spin-offs ’ into the economy as a whole from advances in military R&D , in telecommunications or electronics from are few and far between . |
| 17 | However , what the questions and responses do illustrate is that the notion of a discipline or subject , which is the basic building-block of the undergraduate curriculum , far from being straightforward and clearly defined , is in fact extremely complex . |
| 18 | He was still a good two hours from being drunk and even then he would probably manage to drive home without attracting unwanted attention . |
| 19 | But the hermeneutic tradition prevents such final accounts at least from being easy and perhaps from being possible . |
| 20 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 21 | One 's lifestyle in television can be stressful , artificial and erratic , quite apart from being exciting and creatively fulfilling . |
| 22 | … assertiveness skills help to focus the emphasis of the request on the specific problem , and prevent the asserted comment from being aggressive or intensely personal . |
| 23 | PrPSc , from scrapie brain , differs in being larger and less soluble and resisting protease digestion . |
| 24 | It also tended primarily to be Anglican and only secondarily reformed . |
| 25 | Some of the South Africans are were last night understood to be unhappy that only the English anthem is to be played , but it was felt better not to cause more controversy in the light of Thursday 's threat by the African National Congress to call a halt to future tours . |
| 26 | But my ex-husband says I 'm inclined to be intimidating and also I give out powerful signals that I 'm desperate to get another husband . |
| 27 | The answer is that it is more significant than often it appears , especially if you include examples such as help in finding employment , the importance of which continues to be greater than often is recognized . |
| 28 | However , officials admitted on July 29 that the deficit was likely to be greater than originally estimated , because of lower-than-anticipated tax revenues and increased expenditure especially on unemployment benefit and health and social service payments [ for May 1990 agreement on German unity fund and East German budget deficit predictions see p. 37467 ] . |
| 29 | But he added : ‘ Why is it that while the means for achieving happiness have never been greater , the incidence of stress and depression also seems to be greater than ever before ? ’ |
| 30 | He added : ‘ Despite the national outcries that Cathy and other films engendered , the scale of the problem today seems to be greater than ever — if only by the sight of the homeless we see camped in the streets of our cities . ’ |