Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension arrangements will be wholly in the private sector . |
| 2 | They are likely to be somewhere on the following continuum |
| 3 | A relaxed horse will be somewhere between the two , with little tension in the head , neck and tail , maybe a rested hindleg , but still showing interest in his environment . |
| 4 | We aimed to be somewhere between the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail . |
| 5 | Mervyn Pinfield 's role as Associate Producer on Doctor Who was agreed to be mostly in an advisory capacity . |
| 6 | Redpath was puzzled for the body seemed to him to be rather on the slight side . |
| 7 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 8 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 9 | You sure seem to be on to a good thing with this Walter Machin [ the letter said ] . |
| 10 | They felt they might be on to a good thing . |
| 11 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 12 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 13 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |
| 14 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 15 | The covenant must benefit the land and not be merely for the personal benefit of the person claiming the benefit of the covenant . |
| 16 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 17 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Thus for example , the proportion of total social service department expenditure upon elderly people increased from 38.1 to 45 per cent between 1973 to 1979 but the percentage of expenditure on community services remained the same and continued to be so into the mid 1980s ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | They must also continue to be so for a reasonable time after delivery . |
| 20 | Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation . |
| 21 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 22 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 23 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 24 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 25 | In long and complex cases delay was inevitable and had to be accepted , so why then , she asked , should that not be so in a simple case . |
| 26 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 27 | This may be so in the individual case but the effect is outweighed by the cumulative effect on company results when the whole is considered . |
| 28 | The problem arises : why is religion so widespread in the evolution of humanity , and still continues to be so in the modern world ? |
| 29 | I mean that 's the som that 's er an issue that er has been dealt with I think it 's policy resources can continue to be so in the coming years . |
| 30 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |