Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Repeated failures in fostering are obviously very damaging to a child to whom it means repeated rejection .
2 If they can , they are much more cautious as a result of the experience of the past few years than they have ever been .
3 ‘ Yes , I suppose so , but our creations are perhaps not accessible to a trivial mind . ’
4 Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome .
5 Family honour and pride , which are so easily upset by a woman 's actions , are far less easily affected by a man 's errors .
6 The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense .
7 Male dogs tend to be worse in this respect than bitches , because they are naturally more dominant within a pack .
8 They are just as effective with a system derived entirely from linkages .
9 Small language groups , e.g. Kalenji speakers in Kenya are thus very much at a disadvantage compared to larger groups such as Gikuyu .
10 But also it might have a greater effect on leukaemic cells , which divide more frequently , probably use more folic acid , and are thus more vulnerable to a competitive antagonist .
11 But recession-hit traders who rely on tourism in the region say they 're only guardedly optimistic about an Easter boom .
12 Erm it 'll it 'll be enquiries which are of very general interest , Mm erm which I should think you 're just as much of an expert as anybody else at answering .
13 They 're clearly not used to a lot of tourism .
14 ‘ Not only that , you 're also extraordinarily astute at a purely commercial level . ’
15 We 're far too close to a lot of nasty things . ’
16 But they 're really too big for a rabbit to tackle .
17 So even in the situation in which apparently you 're quite heavily dependent upon a neighbouring state , there usually is some element of choice .
18 You 're never too old for an orgy .
19 Our hands are always more receptive to a person 's aura if we have just massaged that person .
20 Such accidentally created fires are usually most devastating after a long dry period when the organic content of the litter and soil is experiencing moisture deficiency and the presence of dry kindling provides a good fuel supply .
21 Some are usually more common at a particular age .
22 At the level of connected sentences , it involves the identification of focused elements ( i.e. those which are more thematically central to a text ) [ Chafe , 1972 ] .
23 Another important question is whether the UK government will bring the existing financial thresholds above which an item requires a licence in line with the EC thresholds , which are slightly more liberal for a wide range of items , although stricter for few significant categories , such as prints and drawings .
24 They are also generally happier with a wider range of jobs , both in size and complexity because they have often cracked most of the problems already .
25 Firstly , mid-classes are groups of phonemes which are easily confused at an acoustic-phonetic stage of processing : thus and are grouped into one mid-class , since [ m ] and [ n ] are are often nearly identical from an acoustic point of view .
26 First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond .
27 Smaller tanks are really only suitable for a single pair plus some typical east Asian community fish such as Rasboras ( R. borapetensis or R. trilineata for example ) ; Danios , or Loach ( Botia spp . ) .
28 But the kinds of things saying here are , are really very favourable towards a rich peasant economy
29 And their saddles are far more ornamental with a horn that cowboys use to tie up their lassoos .
30 Slopes which are visible from a thousand feet looking straight down from above are far too steep for an easy or safe landing .
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