Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 2 | During his eight years as Premier Cain 's government , widely considered to be relatively free from financial corruption , had prohibited nuclear warships , decriminalized brothels , enacted freedom of information legislation , reformed licensing laws and increased expenditure on education . |
| 3 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 4 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 5 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 6 | Yet as Andrew Palmer , deputy finance director at Legal & General Investments warned at the same conference , ‘ like all chains , Taurus is only going to be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 7 | He 's at us all the time , but boys of that age do so like to be morally superior , do n't they ? ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps other parties , simply because they have lacked the British Labour party 's advantages , have necessarily had to be more adaptable and willing to make alliances . |
| 9 | Upstairs in the workshop , there is an air of quiet panic mingled with excitement because nothing is quite ready for the upcoming show , but it 's near enough to know it 's all going to be just divine . |
| 10 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 11 | I thought it was all going to be all right . |
| 12 | The warning note that it was all going to be very different this time was sounded right at the beginning , with the efforts to establish a minority government . |
| 13 | Children who have to leave a lone parent , whether single from death or divorce , are obviously going to be more troubled and guilty about the possible loneliness and vulnerability of the one they leave behind than children who know there are others to carry that burden . |
| 14 | Obviously striving to be as controlled as possible , she smiled . |
| 15 | In some cases this is true , but Milan fared well , and the Viscontis especially proved to be very able rulers . |
| 16 | He maintained that the forest wastes wanted ‘ only inclosure to be highly productive ’ of corn : a general Enclosure Act would make them ‘ profitable to the Community ’ . |
| 17 | The Committee for Arts and Social Studies confirmed at its third meeting , in April 1966 , that ‘ it was established that courses submitted to the Council would not necessarily have to be directly vocational in nature ’ . |
| 18 | And third , because this picture will necessarily have to be very general , I shall consider some particular groups of teachers , and the way things look to them . |
| 19 | Exercise does not necessarily have to be very vigorous , but it does need to be regular , and for a significant duration . |
| 20 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 21 | Those who live alone perhaps need to be especially secure from harm coming and going from their home . |
| 22 | The odds ratio shows that this was the case even after taking into account the fact that those living alone tended to be more disabled than elderly married couples , and therefore in greater need of such help . |
| 23 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 24 | Managers are members of the company pension scheme , which allows for retirement at 60 and is generally recognized to be reasonably generous . |
| 25 | Though the School was successful on the academic side , it was not proving to be financially worthwhile , and the establishment of Public Elementary Schools by the 1870 Education Act did nothing to help . |
| 26 | Some time later , she acknowledged that the task was not proving to be as easy as she had expected . |
| 27 | For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) . |
| 28 | He did not want to be too analytical about it either . |
| 29 | They are not intended to be narrowly restrictive , ‘ only-possible ’ solutions : instead , you should find that they suggest what kinds of factors you ought to be identifying in your analysis , and the range of possible solutions we think are sensible . |
| 30 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |