Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on .
2 It would probably to appropriate for me to er second the motion in Welsh er , but as you 're and neither the English Welsh I would just like to say a few things , one , to express the appreciation of my council for the and secondly ,
3 It 's all out there on the street and it 's the closet I 've ever been and probably the nearest I will ever be to actually feeling part of the world .
4 A lot of you 'd be surprised how gullible a lot of people are and frankly a lot of shopping problems do turn out to be the shopper 's own fault .
5 So there you are and then the driver board goes on here
6 It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish .
7 It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be .
8 So what 's the what 's the average gon na be or even the mean ?
9 Just do n't ask any tricky questions about what the object model will be or how the applications will communicate with the desktop .
10 Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ?
11 Why not get people that is activists and Oldham might well the branch for Oldham you 've got Dave from Stockport they 've got a MP retiring , they 're getting on now , you 've had , we 've had your time now , for God 's sake go you 've been there long enough , let's get the activists in , let's get G M B members and let's get this parliament back to what it should be and not the Tories .
12 It was not yet dark but soon it would be and then the town would come alive .
13 ‘ V-very good , ’ she managed at last , desperately aware of the way his fingers were creeping from her chin , sliding down lightly to her neck , then on towards her throat — the ghost of a touch , as light and sensual as any touch could be and all the more powerful and disturbing for that .
14 Well what you consider the er middle peasants to be and obviously the erm
15 He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ?
16 The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail .
17 Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making .
18 ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors .
19 For example , in March 1955 at the time of Ashby 's Will Harvey Lecture , there were only five tutor-organisers employed by the Eastern District , those in Essex , Fenland , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk : the posts in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were vacant and there were as yet no tutor-organisers with special responsibilities over several counties .
20 In general , it illustrates the amateurish state of government at this time : there were as yet no doctors of Canon Law , no schools in which the subject was studied , no lectures , no centres of expert knowledge .
21 Just do n't ask any tricky questions about what the object model is or how the applications will communicate with the desktop .
22 That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec .
23 A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies .
24 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
25 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
26 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
27 The traditional one is that both the Conservative Party and government were in decline in the late 1920s and that the party leaders were ‘ too supine to do anything about this loss of prestige . ’
28 He concluded : ‘ the cardinal rule of library stock control is that both the loan period and the duplication policy should be related to the level of demand for the title and to each other . ’
29 My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom .
30 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
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