Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Christmas her Uncle Bertie assembled the clan at his manor house in Wiltshire and announced that as a start she had better be presented at Court . |
| 2 | Nightmares can perhaps better be defined in terms of the emotions they evoke , rather than any particular subject-matter . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you had better be prepared for disruption , because I fear she could be here permanently . ’ |
| 4 | The West Wing contained chambers which Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 66 ) interprets as state apartments , although they might better be interpreted as sanctuaries ; the chambers behind are admitted , by their excavator , Nicolas Platon ( 1971 , p. 257 ) , to be ritual in nature . |
| 5 | Not for the normal reasons : that they 're failed creators ( they usually are n't ; they may be failed critics , but that 's another matter ) ; or that they 're by nature carping , jealous and vain ( they usually are n't ; if anything , they might better be accused of over-generosity , of upgrading the second-rate so that their own fine discriminations thereby appear the rarer ) . |
| 6 | With the advent of information theory ( Attneave , 1959 ; Edwards , 1964 ) other interesting issues arose such as whether the performance of the store could better be measured in terms of bits of information or chunks of material ( the bits-versus-chunks controversy ( Miller , 1956 ) ) and the possibility that memory processes might distinguish between content and order . |
| 7 | Do n't stuff yourself with doughnuts or chocolate , or anything to which you are unaccustomed , or indeed anything to which you are accustomed but which you might suddenly be tempted to gorge in distorted amounts . |
| 8 | As we have seen , for some Foucault can apparently be dismissed with ease as merely the philosopher of discontinuity , a description which is hardly adequate ; for others , criticism takes the form that he simply relativizes history , but this is really no better , for history is itself a mode of demonstrating the relativity , temporariness , and temporality of phenomena . |
| 9 | Permission will apparently be sought for TWE to use satellite links , which are closed to Baby Bells by the 1984 decree . |
| 10 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 11 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 12 | If the elements placed in theme position in the source text can easily and naturally be placed in theme position in the target text , the method of development of the two texts will be the same or very similar . |
| 13 | In the first place , as knowledge of the syntax , phonology and semantics of various languages has increased , it has become clear that there are specific phenomena that can only naturally be described by recourse to contextual concepts . |
| 14 | Some modern gardeners report that handling the leaves of this plant can cause a blistering rash on sensitive skin , so it must obviously be treated with respect , but there is a good chance that oil of rue would prove to be a successful repellent for most misbehaving cats . |
| 15 | The solution procedure for TRPs can obviously be applied to TPs but certain special features arise from the extra structure . |
| 16 | The biggest savings will obviously be made by people who use most water now , either by being wasteful , by having several people in the household , and/or by using appliances like dishwashers . |
| 17 | This fact must obviously be taken into account in the interpretation of raised beaches . |
| 18 | Its content will obviously be considered in relation to the ward learning objectives . |
| 19 | After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union 's representative at the UN , Yuli Vorontsev , became Russia 's representative on Dec. 24 , after delivering a letter from Yeltsin to the Secretary-General informing UN members that the Soviet Union would henceforth be represented by Russia . |
| 21 | One unremarked consequence for both sexes , for example , is that since wives ' allowances can henceforth be set against investment income , there will be more non-taxpayers among bank and building society depositors — and the composite rate of tax on their yield will then be reduced for everybody . |
| 22 | The Commissariat will henceforth be administered by Mr Simmons , and Mr Rayne will take up his duties at the ramparts ; his bearers , however , will remain to assist in the Commissariat . |
| 23 | Coal tits are among the birds which will feed from these , but they do cache seeds , and so be prepared for sunflowers germinating all over your garden and beyond . |
| 24 | An outside problem can sometimes be helped by , say , more flexible working hours and so be resolved at management level . |
| 25 | The orbitals in these compounds can be considered to lie predominantly on the metal ( or metals in a polynuclear species ) or on the ligands , or to be involved in metal-ligand interactions and so be shared between metal and ligand . |
| 26 | He would probably also marry the knight 's daughter and so be knighted in turn . |
| 27 | The tartness of the gooseberries and the sweetness of the mangoes combine well to create this refreshing dessert which can literally be made in minutes . |
| 28 | Where administrators might justly be accused of partiality in land questions , however , was in cases involving the relations of the Masai with other tribes . |
| 29 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |
| 30 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |