Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to picture this woman as a gawky teenager , arriving in a new town , terribly self-conscious at being a new student . |
| 2 | I can imagine nothing less likely to be an empowering experience . |
| 3 | The reported number of people known to have HIV only includes those who have taken a blood test , and is therefore only likely to be a small proportion of the total number infected . |
| 4 | But the Horde really should be sufficiently and stubbornly ambitious to be the next classic band and in the process to take that soaraway sound into the Nineties . |
| 5 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 6 | One aspect I was n't terribly impressed with was the flimsy nature of the slide-out paper guides . |
| 7 | I was so excited to be a young bride going off on tour to Europe . |
| 8 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 9 | The Castledawson side , hitherto famed for being the first winners of the Irish Cup , are now making a modern day name for themselves in the B Division . |
| 10 | The Torquay Congress foreshadowed that the deaf people of this country were no longer content to be a silent and docile minority . |
| 11 | NOT CONTENT with being the single most sought-after band on the Sub Pop roster ( with no fewer than four major labels seriously chasing their signatures ) , NIRVANA are playing merry hell with the distributors of their new single ‘ Silver/Dive ’ . |
| 12 | NOT CONTENT with being the single most sought-after band on the Sub Pop roster ( with no fewer than four major labels seriously chasing their signatures ) , NIRVANA are playing merry hell with the distributors of their new single ‘ Silver/Dive ’ . |
| 13 | The general SVQ in technology was particularly attractive to us , as our construction section was suffering , at least temporarily , from the economic downturn , and whilst there was little training activity in the building sector , it was being predicted that this was not likely to be a long-term situation . |
| 14 | Tall lanky plants in small pots are not likely to be a good buy . |
| 15 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 16 | As there would have been equal numbers of damaged nuclei , however , in both groups ( upper one third and lower two thirds ) of crypt fractions we feel that this is not likely to be a significant distoring factor in the analysis . |
| 17 | If the latter is not likely to be a permanent feature , machinery for achieving some long-term pay agreements in the public sector becomes important for achieving efficient control ( Heald , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Individual work at their own pace from workbooks is not likely to be an effective means to achieve these goals . |
| 19 | Clearly the total amount of information in a stimulus plays an important role in recognition , however , it is not likely to be the sole determinant of P(A) . |
| 20 | Mrs Erica Chalkley , 65 , said she thought Mr Ashdown had ‘ leadership qualities ’ but she was unhappy about his military background and was ‘ glad on the whole ’ that he was not likely to be the next Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same . |
| 22 | ‘ I was not wont to be a married woman , and now a widowed woman . |
| 23 | For want of practice , Venetian drivers are proverbially supposed to be the worst in Italy . |
| 24 | It 's not supposed to be a fizzy is it ? |
| 25 | The conclusion is not supposed to be a bland endorsement of the essay title or a simple restatement of what has gone before . |
| 26 | It is not difficult to be a good conveyancer . |
| 27 | But it is not necessary to be a utilitarian to be a reductivist . |
| 28 | It is not necessary to be a veterinary surgeon to become a licensed inseminator , but training is required . |
| 29 | The next part of the job was to film mink where they are most likely to be an ecological threat — the Outer Hebrides . |
| 30 | It is very stable , very comfortable ( forget about the layers of foam mat to pad the seat ) and sufficiently directionally stable to be a real pleasure on coastal trips . |