Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been discovered by a member of the crew and rather than be handed over to US Immigration officials had allowed himself to be buggered by three of the sailors , including the Captain . |
| 2 | And rather than being at the mercy of the autobiographer 's choice of what to mention , we can ask questions and open up areas of significant memory which would otherwise have been lost . |
| 3 | is preceded by silence and is followed by silence , and so and are said to be in a position of external open juncture . |
| 4 | The feelings he or she gets when ‘ kicked ’ are comfortingly familiar and better than being ignored . |
| 5 | This field component would connect gas in the plane to the hotter gas above and below and is likely both to generate instabilities and to bleed angular momentum from the disk , possibly leading to the formation of a jet . |
| 6 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 7 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 8 | To a large extent this is due to a natural tendency , already mentioned earlier , to simplify the whole issue by treating experiences as logically on a par with other phenomena , and hence as being tractable with the help of basically the same conceptual machinery . |
| 9 | And the new life , the Christian life , is described concisely and clearly as being different from the old way . |
| 10 | He was getting nearer and nearer and was almost upon them . |
| 11 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 12 | Monumental architecture in Greece was first developed in temples and long largely confined to sanctuaries ; and sculpture in the archaic period and even after is exclusively associated with religion . |
| 13 | They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock . |
| 14 | Bel-Korhadris ruled wisely and well and was loved by all . |
| 15 | Students are encouraged to present their data at scientific meetings both in Britain and abroad and are expected to contribute to a lively programme of intra-departmental seminars and journal clubs . |
| 16 | has a wealth of experience in the food ingredients industry both in the UK and abroad and was most recently working for an Australian ingredients company . |
| 17 | It rocks you backwards and forwards and is supposed to stimulate the endorphins in your brain , helping to boost thinking power It did n't — but then I was only on it for about 10 minutes before I started feeling sick . |
| 18 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 19 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |
| 20 | Like farming , at a time when vines and corn grew haphazardly here and there but were not cultivated , philosophy has never been properly and methodically developed . |
| 21 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 22 | Enjoy a tour of the Evening Telegraph which brings news to the county and beyond and is very much a part of the way of life in the area . |
| 23 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 24 | Her moral responsibilities are not ours and therefore nor are her rights commensurate . |
| 25 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |