Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , housing benefit will be an element of the total package , but will not be for the whole cost of care and will not be wholly additional to current rates of care . |
| 2 | No system in the world can be wholly immune to bad weather conditions , but there are always lessons to be learnt . |
| 3 | At present , most of the possible Zechstein accumulations would not be economically attractive in offshore situations , where the minimum size of field that can be commercially developed is about 100 Bcf . |
| 4 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 5 | In the LFAs , grants would be additionally available to part-time farmers . |
| 6 | They are already present in early Cambrian rocks and are still with us today , although living brachiopods tend to be rather inconspicuous in shallow waters . |
| 7 | Most of the rain will be light and patchy , though , and generally it 'll be rather hazy with increasing hill fog . |
| 8 | ‘ Scots do tend to be rather inhibited about interior design , ’ she acknowledges . |
| 9 | It is also intended that the finished corpus should be widely available for linguistic research . |
| 10 | Third and finally , spillovers may be most extensive in high R&D sectors simply because firms may have to do extensive R&D on their own in order to benefit from the knowledge which spills over from rivals ' efforts . |
| 11 | It is also a question of equity , both within the current generation — poor inner-city children may be most vulnerable to arrested development caused by inhaling lead-polluted air — and across generations . |
| 12 | The most likely explanation is that the factors determining breeding success in males and females tend to be most similar in monogamous species and most different in highly polygynous ones . |
| 13 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 14 | In other words , it will be those that do just what the grumblers demand — cutting imports , using local suppliers , doing R&D on the spot — that will be most threatening to General Motors , Ford , Volkswagen , Peugeot and Fiat . |
| 15 | As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression . |
| 16 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that his announcement about vertically launched Sea Wolf will be most welcome to British Aerospace in Bristol ? |
| 17 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |
| 18 | On this level of mere temperamental affinity ( not considering its truth or falsehood ) we feel Lewis to be a man who would be most happy in Christian garb . |
| 19 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 20 | Because we are international , and operate across the world , we have to be keenly aware of economic change and budgeting policies world wide . |
| 21 | The Institute 's main concern is that the new entities should be expressly subject to national legislation governing the activity undertaken . |
| 22 | A single computer may be constantly available alongside other resources as a reference tool , or for some simulations . |
| 23 | Further complications are created by the fact that secret explicit collusion may be observationally equivalent to tacit collusion given surveillance methods constrained by considerations of ‘ liberty and justice ’ . |
| 24 | Using an author 's view of what he considers a ‘ derived ’ publication may also be somewhat open to subjective interpretation , because some authors will want to suggest different degrees of derivation than others , whereas using a published bibliography ought , in theory , to be more objective , provided one can be sure of one 's identification . |
| 25 | But with the return to economic growth in Canada , keeping down oil imports will not be so easy despite conservation gains and efficiency improvements . |
| 26 | Four centuries earlier Socrates at Athens observed that a really righteous person would be so unacceptable to human society that he would be subjected to every humiliation and crucified . |
| 27 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 28 | Most industrialised governments are believed to be so alarmed by new reports demonstrating the rapid destruction of the ozone layer that they will almost certainly approve a new target of 1996 . |
| 29 | Grainne was no longer quite sure that they were real , for the Castle seemed to her to be so brimful of lingering emotions and the resonances of the past that the footsteps might have belonged to the distant past , or the far-off future , or to a world outside Ireland altogether . |
| 30 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |