Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations . |
| 2 | Younger branches of S. cordifolia are much more susceptible to damage than older branches . |
| 3 | Unacceptable practices which have an abusive component , such as tying old people to commodes , are much more likely to arise when there are insufficient numbers of staff to complete the ascribed tasks . |
| 4 | Because animal bones are much more likely to survive than plant remains , the evidence is unduly biased towards a meat-eating diet . |
| 5 | Compared with younger age groups , older people are much more likely to suggest that improved prosperity has brought about improved health , while younger people are more convinced of the importance of health education . |
| 6 | Dividend payments are not fixed , and they are much more difficult to estimate as they depend on the overall performance of the firm . |
| 7 | Novels are much more difficult to place and from a new writer , publishers normally want to see the whole book . |
| 8 | There really is too much mystique attached to carp fishing , most it promoted by anglers who would like you to think that carp are much more difficult to catch than they actually are . |
| 9 | Attitudes are much more difficult to change than are skills and there can be ambiguity about what constitutes an improvement . |
| 10 | always keep a special look out for cyclists particularly when overtaking or turning , bearing in mind that two wheels are much less easy to see than large vehicles . |
| 11 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 12 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 13 | Sheer numbers mean that widows are much less likely to remarry than widowers : there simply are n't enough men of their age around . |
| 14 | Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not . |
| 15 | Elizabeth Thompson , secretary of Darlington Milk Buyers Company Ltd , who supply 33 dairymen in the town , said they had been only too happy to help when approached by the borough council . |
| 16 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 17 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 18 | Lyons , in fact , concedes ( b ) : ‘ I am only too prepared to accept that in other traditions scribal records either are not or are not seen to be intrinsically more reliable than memory and oral transmission . ’ |
| 19 | I am so very glad to hear that my darlings are all making such splendid improvement . |
| 20 | Paragraph ( c ) would appear not to affect decisions in cases such as Kendall v. Lillico ( see paragraph 10–07 ) and Cointat v. Myham ( see paragraph 10–08 ) cases where the purchaser chooses to buy goods for his business from a seller whose terms he has in a consistent course of dealing been apparently quite happy to accept or where the purchaser buys goods in a market in which a trade custom shows that merchants have found exclusion terms to be acceptable . |
| 21 | ‘ In general , I think it 's slightly unfair when you 've got someone who 's considered a virtuoso player such as Mark King — he 's obviously very talented , but his basses are so incredibly easy to play that it seems a bit of a cheat to me . |
| 22 | These questions are so plainly hard to answer that it is worth pausing to consider why they have not had more effect on the development of International Relations theories . |
| 23 | In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface . |
| 24 | It confirms my theory that low-powered but aerodynamically-sound aircraft are generally far nicer to fly than those high-powered bricks whose great drag is masked by a big engine . |
| 25 | Shiny pages can reflect uncomfortable dazzle for photophobic children , and books whose pages combine printed text interwoven with illustrations or print set against varying coloured backgrounds are generally less easy to decipher than simply set out and clearly contrasted displays . |
| 26 | Level sites are generally more economic to develop although deep sewers may be required and care with layout must be exercised to give interest and variety . |
| 27 | It is generally recognised that there is a great deal of information in the speech wave — particularly prosodic information — which we are not yet able to isolate and use . |
| 28 | This is especially applicable for those that are not yet ready to drink and therefore need to be laid down for a year or more . |
| 29 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 30 | Some have suggested that there are daily rhythms which mirror those of mental performance but which are not as difficult to measure or as prone to interference , and they come up with old standbys , body temperature and adrenalin . |