Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And taking your life as a whole , with all your innumerable choices , all your life you are slowly turning this central thing into either a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature . |
| 2 | With expressions such as these , we are obviously approaching another transitional area bordering on idiom . |
| 3 | So we are basically wasting another twelve to eighteen months , sitting around waiting for a decision on the the new settlement . |
| 4 | So you are better insuring these expensive possessions on your home insurance . |
| 5 | Contemporary studies of Wilson by , for example , or perhaps even are apparently based much more on fragmented material than Bullett and Freud , Freud would allow . |
| 6 | Imagining the scene , poor Cindy hustled out to some waiting car with one of Cashman 's beefy paws grasping her arm like a manacle , Matthew tried to repress the thought that it might have been exactly to escape such strong-arm tactics that the beautiful Cindy had vanished , Matthew said , ‘ Why do you think she might have come here ? ’ |
| 7 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 8 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 9 | In suggesting that philosophical and sociological perspectives be added to the curriculum , I am not proposing that discrete packages of philosophy or sociology be introduced . |
| 10 | Thus I am not disputing this vital fact which classical economists have ( rightly ) asserted as indefeasible . |
| 11 | There is a wish to see a move from residential care to home care and , and home help and community based care , but to see that it 's done in an orderly fashion which does n't destabilize the market that 's out there , and does n't put at risk the care of elderly people who are already using those existing homes . |
| 12 | With local elections looming in the near future , Communist leaders in Warsaw are already fearing another serious loss , possibly even more humiliating than the loss to Solidarity in national elections last June . |
| 13 | We are not dealing any more with temporary commonality but with permanent commonality . |
| 14 | However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year . |
| 15 | Concord director Maurice Guy said : ‘ Due to recessionary pressure we have closed our branches and are not taking any more business . |
| 16 | General Accident are not expecting any additional claims activity as a result of the flooding in the Mid-West , the insurance costs of which are being handled under the US Government 's National Flood Insurance Programme . |
| 17 | Tranmere are not expecting any dramatic changes this time round , 12 months on after the massive upheaval that launched a new set-up last season . |
| 18 | They tell us they are not issuing any more pictures in the forseeable future . |
| 19 | British farmers are not producing enough organic food to meet rapidly-rising consumer demand , with the result that imports account for 70 per cent of the annual market , according to the Organic Food and Farming Centre . |
| 20 | Labour Coun Gordon Paterson , a member of the MPTA , said last night : ‘ We are not advocating any compulsory redundancies . |
| 21 | They are not made any more convincing to a modern reader by the assumption that this tradition really was ‘ objective ’ . |
| 22 | Things are not made any easier by the removal for many people of ‘ organized ’ production as a central constitutive experience of their social being . |
| 23 | The problems I have to resolve under this heading are not made any easier by uncertainty , even in the short term future , as to who will be doing the caring and at what stages changes to the present regime will take place . |
| 24 | If couples are not receiving any extra but believe they should be , the husband should write to their local tax office stating their ages . |
| 25 | Football can be a cruel game and the undeniable , unpalatable truth is that Robson 's key players are not getting any better than they were two years ago ( with the arguable exception of Shilton ) , and certainly no younger . |
| 26 | All that can be said from this direction is that they are not getting any easier . |
| 27 | In some occupations — bus and train drivers and airline pilots , for example — employees are not allowed any alcoholic drink during the working day . |
| 28 | With cancer , what I 've known is people gradually having bits of them taken away until their bowels are not working any more and they ca n't breathe and so on and so on . |
| 29 | There are many more bookshops — especially branches of chain bookshops — than there were 10 years ago , and yet publishers complain that they are not selling any more books — fewer in many cases . |
| 30 | ‘ We now have a competitive edge up front , and we are not selling any top players . ’ |