Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | At 1 p.m. on the twenty-sixth , explosions loud enough to be heard well over 150 kilometres away were taking place at intervals of about ten minutes , and at about 2 p.m. an English ship , 120 kilometres from the scene , sighted a black cloud , rising to an altitude estimated to be about twenty-five kilometres above the volcano . |
| 32 | Martin stopped a few feet before him and stood with legs planted firmly apart , said loud enough to be heard above the music , ‘ What are you drinking ? ’ |
| 33 | Is your voice loud enough to be heard on all occasions ? |
| 34 | He passed her , holding his face away from every shouted word , interspersing them with his own but not loud enough to be heard : ‘ Stop it , ’ ‘ This is destructive , ’ ‘ Do n't say these things , ’ until in the middle of the hall he thrashed the coat repeatedly against the floor , yelling louder than he had ever done . |
| 35 | Afterwards he will raise his voice and holler loud enough to be heard by the whole roomful of guests milling around chatting , perhaps talking excitedly with drinks in their hands , ‘ LADIES and GENTLEMEN ! |
| 36 | ‘ How long ? ’ shouted Billie from the rear , loud enough to be heard over the roar of the two-hundred horsepower engine . |
| 37 | The older man shook his head slightly , his mouth made a round shape , ‘ Aw , come on , cut it out , man , ’ ( but not loud enough to be heard ) . |
| 38 | They turned south this time and soon Jenna was amused and intrigued to see huge gaggles of geese in fields , moving about almost as one and honking loud enough to be heard over the noise of the car . |
| 39 | The checks of his three-piece suit were large and loud enough to be migraine-inducing , and the tie , although defiantly striped , was not one she recognised . |
| 40 | But there was a snap loud enough to be heard in the bushes , and then a long-drawn-out clinking noise as the chain fell away . |
| 41 | Despite what Mrs Sangster says , the jettisoning of the Sangster flagship will be seen as further evidence of her husband falling behind in racing 's power game , in which it is no longer enough just to be a run-of-the-mill millionaire . |
| 42 | It was enough just to be with him . |
| 43 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 44 | It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning ! |
| 45 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 46 | He wants so desperately to be vital , but he is being terribly dishonest with himself . |
| 47 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 48 | But the ill-effects , especially those that developed slowly , took much longer to be identified . |
| 49 | However , as a consideration of the full list of Orpheus and saltire mosaics in section 3 , and then again in section 4 , would have been repetitive , mosaics which are closely related ( but not sufficiently close to be considered as related at this level of affinity ) will be examined in the preamble to a discussion of two putative , " integral groups " . |
| 50 | He laughed , but she was pleased to see that he was fast becoming his normal self , this unwonted display of humility being hidden , perhaps only ever to be shown again to someone as close as her . |
| 51 | But adaptation was considered only ever to be superficial . |
| 52 | It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes . |
| 53 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 54 | The Hudson 's Bay Company was so deeply involved in the struggle with the French in North America , and came so close to being overwhelmed , that nobody stepped forward to try to take its place . |
| 55 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 56 | When parents are overstressed and have little energy or patience they may give in quickly to be left alone . |
| 57 | Better still to be |
| 58 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
| 59 | We will illustrate the techniques involved by solving examples but the general principles should emerge sufficiently clearly to be readily applied to any problem . |
| 60 | The rationale behind island-driving was the expectation that some words in the utterance would be pronounced sufficiently clearly to be recognised out of context , and could therefore be used as islands of comparative certainty from which to build an interpretation of the rest of the utterance . |