Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 2 | Tribunals will generally regard first hand evidence as more likely to be correct than second-hand evidence , but there is no general requirement that what the claimant says must be corroborated by another person 's evidence . |
| 3 | They urged that there was a ‘ need for accurate and complete information in an area of social policy all too liable to be affected by partial research , individual cases and anecdotal evidence' ( para. 255 ) . |
| 4 | In all other respects , however , our group seem to present a typical spread , excluding only the very small minority too seriously ill to be interviewed . |
| 5 | The National Child Development Study report on disadvantaged children identified children from one-parent families with low incomes and poor housing as less likely to be successful at school than other children ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Then the reports began to flood in … a fair-haired , blue-eyed toddler of about the right age , always in the company of a Greek couple much too old to be his natural parents . |
| 7 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |