Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 2 | Their chief responsibility would henceforth be to protect national sovereignty and defend the country from external danger , while responsibility for internal security would pass to a new National Civilian Police ( PNC ) . |
| 3 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 4 | To do so would not only be to abandon deep-seated conceptions of justice and desert , but to abandon the conception of ‘ guilt ’ itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 7 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 8 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 9 | Maybe in the future , like the Chinese , we will only be allowed one child . |
| 10 | It had to be a success — she knew she would only be allowed one failure . |
| 11 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 12 | The problem was that they purported to benefit persons who at civil law could only be considered third parties . |
| 13 | It is believed that a significant number of these are repeat prescriptions , although it is now clear that these powerful drugs should only be used short term . |
| 14 | See the minister , priest or rabbi to book the big day ( register office weddings can only be booked three months in advance ) |
| 15 | The actual names will only be required 12 weeks prior to departure , after which there will be an amendment charge if there are any changes . |
| 16 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A kind of ‘ halfway house ’ between the area system and the reference departments/area system has been reached by some of the authorities which do not have a large city collection within their boundaries , but feel that the needs of the ‘ serious ’ reader should nevertheless be given special attention . |
| 19 | The Scottish Office will shortly be issuing new Planning Advice dealing with archaeology in the planning process . |
| 20 | Perhaps he was trying to butter up America and Britain , because the United Nations Security Council will soon be discussing tighter sanctions against Libya unless he hands over the people who are believed to have blown up an American airliner over Scotland in 1988 . |
| 21 | I will soon be installing newer windows . |
| 22 | The proposal , which caused a storm at last week 's council meeting , has led to further suggestions that other organisations throughout Ards could soon be demanding free refuse collection . |
| 23 | Several other MPs on both sides of the House of Commons may soon be urging legal reform . |
| 24 | This week it 's our drama series , Family Pride , the country 's first Asian soap opera , which goes out at teatime on Thursdays and will soon be shown three nights a week on Channel Four . |
| 25 | Now , another story that is er an interesting one this morning , and I 'd like to hear your view on , families with two television sets could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 26 | Families with more than one telly , could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence . |
| 27 | Families with two tellies could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licences , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 28 | Crowds in the bookies : punters may soon be backing sponsored horses as a result of the new tax deal |
| 29 | The wolf crawled along on a stomach , that would soon be digesting some meat |
| 30 | The " real property " and " the real respectability " of the new centres of population would thus be given political weight , and the national electorate would be enlarged by " about half a million persons , and these all connected with the property of the country , having a valuable stake amongst us , and deeply interested in our institutions ' … |