Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ‘ Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ’ Canion , now chairman of the Houston-based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ‘ that will never change . ’ |
| 2 | Though the trend is one of improvement few City economists are prepared to be more optimistic than Mr Major 's own forecast for next year of £15billion . |
| 3 | If a hypnotist is willing to be so deceptive while hypnotising a patient , can he be trusted when the patient is in a trance ? |
| 4 | Is she really free to be as tidy or untidy as she pleases ? |
| 5 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 6 | Many China-watchers say it is impossible to be as specific as that . |
| 7 | It was impossible to be more precise than that . |
| 8 | This month , you look set to be especially colourful if not spectacularly successful . |
| 9 | Sir Denys had little doubt that the coming months seem set to be as difficult as 1991 was for most countries , ‘ It would not be prudent at this stage to attempt to predict when recovery might begin ’ , he said , ‘ But when it comes , it is very likely to be gradual ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely far too composed to be as innocent as you claim ? |
| 11 | We work very hard to be as good as we are . ’ |
| 12 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'm supposed to be eternally childlike and curious … ’ |
| 14 | But because they are supposed to be utterly other and not-us — the barbarians outside the city — and because we the powerful can not imagine the situation of being the victims of such a war , this normality is perceived as incomprehensible . |
| 15 | In Saussure 's original exposition , signifier and signified , though distinct and only arbitrarily related , were supposed to be as indivisible as the two sides of a piece of paper . |
| 16 | Er the centre 's supposed to be totally non-political and if it ever got political , they 'd close us down . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it was supposed to be very exhilarating once the ‘ chute opened . ’ |
| 18 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 19 | Whereas fascists and anti-semites were free to libel Jews as a group in the most foul language in their publications , the Jews were supposed to be more English than the English according to Morrison . |
| 20 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 21 | This is used because Saint Francis was supposed to be so gentle that he could actually speak to the birds . |
| 22 | He commented with amazement that the charge was supposed to be entirely arbitrary and that at one ground it was said to be nil . |
| 23 | Promising to be more exciting and more spectacular than ever before , the Clothes Show Live fashion and beauty extravaganza is back in London . |
| 24 | It is worth remembering that simple sentences are more likely to be grammatically correct than long , involved ones . |
| 25 | Even so , the first use of the Antiparachute are likely to be rather tentative and sporting . |
| 26 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 27 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 28 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
| 29 | This approach is likely to be most appropriate where States are faced by similar problems , e.g. the impact of demographic changes upon social security systems . |
| 30 | The problem list is likely to be most useful if it has been jointly formulated by the patient and the therapist ( p. 70 ) . |