Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By July 1988 , when the House of Commons Energy Committee came to reassess the figures , it concluded that ‘ many of the critical assumptions that underlay the Inquiry Inspector 's view that Sizewell B will be economic are no longer tenable ’ . |
| 2 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 3 | The consequences of that are only too apparent in cases such as that of Andrew Docherty . |
| 4 | I think they think young men like that are really rather fine . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , ’ he murmured , ‘ should n't have asked ; nightmares like that are undoubtedly best forgotten . ’ |
| 6 | I have other things to do that are much more important . ’ |
| 7 | If you 're talking about youngsters and in a modern i in then in fact abbreviations like that are quite commonly used now in narrative and dialogue and of course in dialogue I mean |
| 8 | The living conditions of the displaced are invariably extremely difficult and many must rely on church and humanitarian organizations for basic assistance . |
| 9 | The situation still exists to-day in the 1980s but there is a more flexible and liberal attitude and deaf teachers of the deaf are once more gaining teaching appointments . |
| 10 | The rich are not normally inhibited in the defence of their own interests by the knowledge that they are only a small minority of the population . |
| 11 | By cheating on their taxes the rich are not only exploiting the system themselves but increasing the pressure on those that ca n't afford alternatives |
| 12 | The State must act in relieving distress , for private charity and a change of heart among the rich are not enough . |
| 13 | ‘ CHILDREN OF THE RICH ARE NEARLY ALWAYS UNHAPPY ’ |
| 14 | The largest are sometimes misleadingly called bird-eating spiders . |
| 15 | Has that been on before ? |
| 16 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition wiped the floor with the Prime Minister , and never has that been more spectacularly done . |
| 17 | Colour one remains in the large box above the palette bar , but colours two , four , six and eight are now all displayed as black . |
| 18 | This ruling has effectively meant that children under eight are almost never called and no child under five is ever called . |
| 19 | It shifted the political spotlight from blundering Mr Major and allowed the Tories to claim that Labour are just as divided as them . |
| 20 | But Labour are now so desperate that they 're prepared to throw in the whole kitchen sink in their frantic bid for power . ’ |
| 21 | The reasons for this are not immediately obvious because Drax can essentially be replicated , while the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate will insist on substantial redesign of the AGR 's nuclear island for a future AGR programme . |
| 22 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 23 | The reasons for this are not fully understood ; the metal used for the cathode disc may be a factor , and the angle at which the beam impinges on the specimen surface may be another . |
| 24 | However , the implications of this are not as great as might be thought . |
| 25 | The villages which can claim a degree of undisturbed continuity beyond this are not usually agricultural villages at all , but medieval textile ‘ towns ’ which have reverted to an agricultural status following the transfer of textile production to the industrial North during the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Tricks like this are n't just misleading to customers , they 're also unfair on rival traders trying to be honest . |
| 27 | The reasons for this are very far from clear . |
| 28 | The French made Line 7s are not as high cut as the other two models and are especially low at the back of the heel to avoid pressure on the Achilles tendon and the subsequent risk of tendonitis . |
| 29 | Outdoors : When a couple of cans of epoxy are not enough Brian Moynahan looks at a contest to find a dinghy that will train and tax the young |
| 30 | The position of the ontological idealist is that the " physical world " is merely a modification of non-physical reality , and consequently that , in the strictest sense , there are no non-mental phenomena ( although " mental " has to be taken here in a very broad sense ) ; whereas the classical dualist view is that there are two fundamentally distinct types of phenomena , one physical the other mental , which though irreducibly different are nevertheless ontologically on a par . |