Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A remarkable scene on a Nene Valley vessel ( fig. 14.14 ) in the Peterborough Museum shows a scene more likely today to be found in a modern circus . |
| 2 | In so far as history aspires to meaning , it is doomed to select regions , periods , groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out , as discontinuous figures , against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop . |
| 3 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 4 | He imagined she would always picture herself as a woman too lazy ever to be guilty , with a certain black dash in the late afternoon , and a temperament born two gins below par . |
| 5 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |