Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the others returned , bringing the extra equipment , he took a field radio , stepped outside and began to transmit to the Hercules that was still circling around above them somewhere . |
| 2 | Whereas in Aristotle 's day , and indeed for some two thousand years afterwards , it might have been conceivable that extremes of wealth and poverty , and even slavery , could coexist as part of a single society , by the time of Rousseau that was no longer the case . |
| 3 | Jessica that 's really disgusting . |
| 4 | And probably even less than that , now I think of it , two hours that 's quite a long time is n't it Peter ? |
| 5 | The contract sorry is very specific . |
| 6 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 7 | Those who put up $1,000 when Microsoft made its initial public offering in March 1986 are now sitting on $15,500 . |
| 8 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 9 | There were four further uprisings between 792 and 804 , but these occurred in a Saxony that was already well under control and were readily crushed . |
| 10 | WP That is very optimistic . |
| 11 | WP That 's too simple . |
| 12 | He began to retrace his tracks , drawing as he went , back over that country around Zweeloo that was entirely covered , as far as the eye could see , ‘ with young corn , the very , very tenderest green I know . ’ |
| 13 | The full-length cDNA represented by clone 14–6 was subsequently isolated from the original BL-29 cDNA library . |
| 14 | When he said , ‘ Will that be all ’ ( like a butler ) , I said , ‘ Yes , you can go now ’ , and turned my back . |
| 15 | ‘ Will that be all then ? |
| 16 | ‘ Will that be all , Mr Flint ? ’ |
| 17 | Of course that 's just making it easier for manufacturers is n't it really the car |
| 18 | But that 's the way the game goes and erm I think as we said ‘ as the game went on , you always had the feeling that in fact Charlton , although they had very little pressure , would sneak a goal , ’ and of course that 's exactly what they did . |
| 19 | and of course that 's very lucky , but it 's also a responsibility . |
| 20 | But of course that 's very difficult . |
| 21 | Of course that 's so hard , they do n't make it pointless for people to find jobs that they do n't declare their income , so that means test would encourage the black economy . |
| 22 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 23 | And of course that is specially true and where one differs frequently from one 's successors . |
| 24 | Sex in Judaism is not only for procreation , although of course that is very important . |
| 25 | The first visible signs of the disease are a slight increase in the red tinges and colour of shoots and young leaves , and of course that is very easily missed because it is the normal colouring of many varieties . |
| 26 | Yes , the reason why we picked a forty year lifespan of work or working life er with four tens was because Professor Good himself told us that er on their research the common employment pattern today is in fact four employers over the working life and of course that is very different from the experience of many pensioners who are drawing today from their pension funds , because many of them were long-term , long-service employees throughout their lives with one employer . |
| 27 | Of course that was just stage one , when we moved gently up into position at the Valve . |
| 28 | She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right . |
| 29 | The relatively small £3 — £9 element gives these a pronounced urban flavour but , in contrast to the majority of little country towns , it was men worth upwards of £40 that were specially numerous , while for size and wealth the topmost class had no parallel outside London . |
| 30 | But at times that was rather difficult to enforce — especially as it was often the authorities who were responsible ! ’ |