Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 2 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 3 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 4 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 5 | Donors will obviously need to be sure that environmental aid is administered efficiently and spent according to agreed priorities . |
| 6 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 7 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 8 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 9 | Jesus was describing a fulfilled life which could only grow to be better and better . |
| 10 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 11 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 12 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 13 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 14 | Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically . |
| 15 | If you lifted a large laundry basket think about the size of a laundry basket , think about where the hands would go then down , lift it up and if it 's full of laundry then it 's obviously going to be heavier than if it was empty but that 's the size . |
| 16 | She 's got no practice ones for the two , the other two she 's got to do which are obviously going to be harder and she 's got no idea , not , well she 's got the guidelines but no real paper to sit and look at . |
| 17 | New guidelines followed in 1984 , but these have apparently proved to be less than satisfactory for reasons which are spelled out in the House of Commons Energy Committee Report . |
| 18 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 19 | The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable . |
| 20 | ‘ I know he only means to be friendly and appear relaxed . ’ |
| 21 | that disputes will be settled by the witness ( grandmother ) , whom all agree to be objective and fair-minded . |
| 22 | The screw was only allowed to be effective where nothing could possibly be effected by its application . |
| 23 | Workers in the pharmaceutical industry and in laboratories obviously have to be knowledgeable and skilled to avoid the many chemical hazards which can threaten the safety of their environment . |
| 24 | Note that for synchronous rotation the orbital and axial periods not only have to be equal but also both prograde or both retrograde . |
| 25 | Her clothes not only have to be smart but very carefully chosen because anything fussily frilled , checked or highly patterned tends to look too busy on the small screen . |
| 26 | Although not a great speaker , Gore was generally considered to be hard-working and conscientious and was renowned as an expert in arms control , defence and foreign policy matters . |
| 27 | Road conditions in the county are generally considered to be inadequate and the construction of the remaining Maidstone-Ashford section of the M20 is programmed for completion in 1991 . |
| 28 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 29 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 30 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |