Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most widely remembered is the pithy and witty exchange that plays on Ben 's alienation from the materialistic world of his parents and their friends . |
| 2 | The long-standing philosophical controversy into which this topic most obviously fits is the political one about equality . |
| 3 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 4 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 5 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 6 | The main sufferers from the air ban so far have been the Asian and African workers , many of whom have little more in their pockets than their return air tickets — now useless . |
| 7 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 8 | So well known were the acquisitive instincts of Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix , by 1300 that the treason charges made by Philip the Fair 's proctors against Bernard Saisset , bishop of Pamiers , included allegations that Saisset had promised to make Foix lord of the comté of Toulouse in 1295–7 , so that his power would then be feared from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees . |
| 9 | The results were beneficent , but less well handled were the reverse migration procedures ordered by Pomgol on 15 March 1922 . |
| 10 | Less well known are the various groups of explicitly anti-Darwinian evolutionists who developed alternative theories in the later part of the century . |
| 11 | Less readily acknowledged are the social and emotional problems that ageing can bring . |
| 12 | Still easily found are the various books by Lea McNally : Highland Deer Forest ; Year of the Red Deer , etc. which are marvellously illustrated with the author 's photographs , taken as a professional stalker . |
| 13 | What it has still largely ignored are the psychological repercussions , both of the realisation that a couple can not conceive — the guilt , the anger , the envy of others — and of the effects of keeping hope alive by a long series of treatments . |
| 14 | Whatever may be the degree of transference between generations , what is much more clearly established is the high proportion of attitudes and behaviour characteristics unconsciously learned by children and taken right into their adult experience . |
| 15 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 16 | Among the most often proposed are the following : |
| 17 | But one region of the spectrum that has been comparatively little explored is the infrared , or ‘ heat radiation ’ . |
| 18 | Yet the collapse of the Taurus settlements system project , at massive cost , turns out only to have been the latest in a line . |
| 19 | Most dramatically situated is the Preobrazhensky Monastery , near Turnovo . |
| 20 | Particularly well known is the planned central core at Corbridge , developed in the later second and early third centuries on either side of the main east-west road . |
| 21 | The 2,000 cups and 1,700 plates used , testify to the multitude served , and how greatly appreciated was the excellent fare they provided . |
| 22 | In a pamphlet , ‘ Off the rails : the Implications of EC Transport Policy for Rail Privatisation ’ , co-written with Malcolm Gylee , Professor Hibbs said : ‘ The history of the EC shows how deeply ingrained is the centralising theory and the public sector ownership policy of the commission . ’ |
| 23 | One that is quite frequently found is the fall-rise tone , where the pitch descends and then rises again ; another complex tone , much less frequently used , is the rise-fall in which the pitch follows the opposite movement . |
| 24 | One is inclined to ask here just how well argued is the frequent claim that ‘ the unit of communication is the sentence ’ ( Armstrong 1971 : 428 ) . |
| 25 | Just how seriously intended was the concocted story of The Lady Vanishes is clear from an early script which opens with a cut from a shot of Nazis strutting to geese on similar manoeuvres . |
| 26 | Er the er of course it is more or less Welsh district than they 're they 're very well attended is the Welsh churches . |
| 27 | Erm , this idea that the police had more more money , yes they have had more money , what , what er , has been very conveniently ignored is the enormous amount of money we 've had to spend on special protection duties . |