Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 2 | Everything he hits seems to be right out of the middle and he also has a much better routine with his putting now that caddy Fanny Sunesson has stopped her ‘ wicketkeeper ’ pose behind his stance . |
| 3 | These comfortable apartments , reserved exclusively for Club 18–30 , are an ideal base for those who want to be right in amongst the action , being only two minutes from the shops , bars and nightlife of San An . |
| 4 | He says , If the cinema should have nudity there , the statues should be inside out of the view of people . |
| 5 | The Government 's claim that those on low incomes will be better off under the new scheme , or at least see their financial position protected , is unlikely to be borne out by events . |
| 6 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 7 | I sit on the side of the bed and decide maybe Rachel is right : I 'd be better off between the sheets than listening to this dross . |
| 8 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 9 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 10 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 11 | It is made worse still by those Tories who feel they would be better off with a different leader , though none say that publicly . |
| 12 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 13 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 14 | Do n't you think you 'd be better off with a soft drink ? |
| 15 | Equally , from the tenant 's point of view the interest granted him under a tenancy at will is so precarious that he would almost always be better off with a fixed term to which the 1954 Act did not apply . |
| 16 | I think you 'd be better off with a with a new cooker and fridge |
| 17 | For example , if the patients ' bowels act too often or with great urgency , and espcially if there should be repeated episodes of faecal leakage or even frank incontinence , they might be better off with an ileostomy . |
| 18 | You 'd be better off with the English one . ’ |
| 19 | Some people in the Labour Party seem to believe that Labour will be better off without the unions . |
| 20 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 21 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 22 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 23 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 24 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'd be better off in a house in Thirkett than stuck out here in that great barn of a place . |
| 26 | Very rare species have been known to be eliminated precisely because they are rare and would , in the collector 's opinion , be better off in a bottle in a museum for posterity . |
| 27 | Cardinals need a temperature between 73–79°F ( 23–26°C ) , and would be better off in a warmer tank of their own . |
| 28 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 29 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 30 | You would be better off in the personnel department . |