Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However robbery , rape and assault are predominantly intra-racial for white offenders in America , but significantly inter-racial for black offenders . |
| 2 | Similarly , family structures , relationships and interaction between members are widely variable between different societies and between religious/racial groups in Britain . |
| 3 | Although many of these terms are widely current in literary scholarship , we shall presuppose a linguistic account of these phenomena , and for this purpose , it is convenient to refer the reader to Leech , A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry. , Following the list of categories in 3. 1 , explanations of selected points will be added in 3.2 . |
| 4 | ‘ I am rather fond of decent brandy . ’ |
| 5 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 6 | I am most grateful to fellow office-bearers and to all members of the Council 's various committees for their support and advice during the year . |
| 7 | Simply by putting relatively isolated community groups together Highlander is able to convey a sense of purpose to these groups which springs from the confidence gained by the realisation that their problems are not confined to themselves , nor in most cases caused by any deficiency or fault of their own , but are rather due to outside forces of oppression which are also being used against other people in other communities . |
| 8 | These radar and optical data are rather similar to corresponding data for the Moon . |
| 9 | Before going on to ask what happens in area 17 , it is worth digressing to point out that things are rather different in other vertebrates . |
| 10 | I mean molecules that are rather larger , molecules that actually are rather important in biological systems . |
| 11 | The relationship between teachers and pupils is in many ways similar to the relationship between other professionals and their clients , but it is suggested here that in an ideal sense ( and in many cases practically too ) it does have special characteristics which are fundamentally opposed to traditional ideas of professionalism . |
| 12 | Neither are effectively accountable to democratic bodies . |
| 13 | The patent may , for instance , have been licensed on terms which are commercially unattractive to potential sub-licensees with superior production techniques or who enjoy established access to trans-national sales outlets . |
| 14 | There are also other possible groups of characteristics which are strikingly absent among real species — for example , there are very few large birds with short wings and short straight beaks . |
| 15 | Self-evidently these texts are strikingly different from original materials issued by the SI in the sense that they have the status of copyrighted property and have been funded by organisations which in the past may have supported progressive art but which do not sound like the champions of revolutionary causes . |
| 16 | Go much below that and the monitoring problems are vastly complicated by natural upsets , like earthquakes and even man-made chemical explosions ( which would also make a comprehensive test ban pretty difficult to be sure of ) . |
| 17 | Tioman is the largest east-coast island , its smaller neighbours are mostly little-developed with unspoilt beaches . |
| 18 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 19 | Jack Russell terriers are mostly white with variable colour markings . |
| 20 | Staff both at New York 's Metropolitan Museum of Art and at London 's British Museum are acutely nervous of penny-pinching governments with an increasingly utilitarian approach to the arts . |
| 21 | We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering , perhaps because of our origins in prehistory ? |
| 22 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 23 | The terminology used in discussing literary texts has been left till last because it is the one which has traditionally been most familiar to English teachers . |
| 24 | The slowest-evolving molecules , like histones , turn out to be the ones that have been most subject to natural selection . |
| 25 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 26 | Family size at longer durations of marriage has been rather stable in recent years ; the similarity of family building of people born in the 1960s to that of the 1920s does not imply much reduction in family size . |
| 27 | Our adult education service does not have staff who are wholly responsible for special needs and is dependent upon generic full-timers and a few specialist part-timers . |
| 28 | The Council 's objectives are wholly concerned with economic growth , rather than with the distribution of the benefits of that growth and as a result , the full participation of all members is possible without sectional positions being adopted . |
| 29 | Crompton and Jones claim that employers use the grade structure to encourage loyalty and dedication from employees , but in reality many of the lower level management and administrative jobs are little different to clerical work . |
| 30 | Apart from their requirement to be helped to return and redevelop a career which will be considered later their needs are little different from other employees . |