Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been downhill since those blokes who did n't play on Frankie Goes To Hollywood went .
2 Some companies never go to the new issues market , and it has been calculated that ‘ in the past decade , in no single year have ordinary share issues accounted for as much as 10 per cent of the sources of capital funds , and the average has been less than half that amount ’ .
3 Under the common law , the measure of damages for a breach of warranty will be to put the purchaser in the position it would have been in if all the warranties had been true .
4 In the early days , they simply challenged the notion of " excessive trade competition " and were not " prepared to admit that there has been much if any reduction in the price paid [ elsewhere ] for good bookwork , which has always formed the staple of the Edinburgh trade " .
5 It may have been shortly after this that he served ( so J. Capgrave says ) in the Italian crusades launched against the enemies of Pope John XXII .
6 So the posts that are to be established and to be filled are exactly as those approved by the Policy Committee .
7 And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on .
8 The professor is director of the Office of Health Economics , and has been ever since that admirable bureau was established in 1962 .
9 ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’
10 But surely there had been more than that ?
11 There have been more than half a million applications for asylum in Europe this year .
12 It is not without significance that throughout the debate there have never been more than half a dozen hon. Members on either side of the House .
13 It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded .
14 The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire .
15 Thus there has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length .
16 Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse .
17 The unhygienic situation described above has been more than enough reason for diarrhoeal diseases to become widespread .
18 No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid .
19 Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him .
20 At that time , when Hitler was master of Europe , such discourtesy would have been more than enough to irritate him .
21 She had her work to concentrate on , and up till now that had been more than enough to fill her life .
22 There are more where that came from , but you will easily catch the drift .
23 Erm and er the , I suspect , I mean there are probably as many answers to that as there are probation officers .
24 There are probably as many approaches to history as there are historians studying the subject .
25 I I mean I mean I 've been up since half past three this morning ,
26 This would still seem to be so if most , though not all , the terms are standard — if , say , there are minor variations from one buyer to another ( e.g. as to the commodity or the quantity bought or the price to be paid ) .
27 But , if all goes to plan , it will not be long before many more well filled wallets like these will be stopping — and getting thinner — in Garrison .
28 There was no real evidence before the Standing Committee that such material was currently being produced or in circulation , but the fear was expressed that , if the ‘ private member 's club ’ defence were to be removed from the most common form in which such material was currently produced , namely books , magazines and pamphlets , it would not be long before such clubs began to produce their propaganda in new media .
29 Yet it ought not to be long before some healthy doubts begin to disturb this mood of self-congratulation .
30 It would not be long before some driver would chance on the scene and phone the local police .
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