Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 2 | Schumann 's Frauenliebe und Leben , and songs by Schubert and Brahms are on while an ‘ Anthology of English Song ’ ( ) has 17 lesser known songs by English composers from the beginning of the century . |
| 3 | As numerous objectors pointed out , the amount spent annually by the government on research into renewable energy has been less than a tenth of the spending on nuclear research . |
| 4 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 5 | As she passed through the channel there had been less than a foot clearance between the ship 's sides and the concrete wharf . |
| 6 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 7 | Had it really been less than a month ago ? |
| 8 | ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’ |
| 9 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 10 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 11 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 12 | The girls who had been in since the start of the war had cornered the market in stripes . |
| 13 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
| 14 | However , given that the disclaimer of responsibility is valid under the UCTA , it is hard to see why such a solution , which puts the buyer in a better position than he would have been in if no express remedies were available , should fall foul of the UCTA . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'll get stuck in against him and we all know if the chips are down when the seamers are on , Robin is the one . |
| 16 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 17 | The airmen who they belonged to , is believed to have been away when the things were taken . |
| 18 | ‘ The best referees ought to be here , but some of them are not because the SRA is cutting back on everything , ’ said Davies . |
| 19 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |
| 20 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 21 | And erm on a job er on on an English railway starting with starting a factory out there and they are going to manage it she 's worried stiff you see because she says now er , Germany and Holland are starting to move in the recession and once they 're there if the recession comes they 'll tack up her husband immediately |
| 22 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 23 | We 're there because the Conservative party chose us , and put us there . |
| 24 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 25 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 26 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 27 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 28 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 29 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 30 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |