Example sentences of "[be] [adj] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the community , the fact that many simple , preventive measures are possible is well illustrated in an article by Mitchell ( 1984 ) and these range from encouraging elderly people to wear well-fitting shoes rather than slippers , to the use of alarm systems , and the involvement of neighbours and regular callers to an old person 's house . |
| 2 | The way you look after yourself when you are pregnant is very important , both for you and your baby . |
| 3 | The recognition that all parts of the psychobiological system governing the lives of individuals are interrelated is surprisingly recent . |
| 4 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 5 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 6 | Second , our expectation that all elderly are ill is clearly misplaced . |
| 7 | Indeed , that such questions are intelligible is largely what is meant by saying that its phenomenology ‘ has a dimension comparable to visual experience as we know it ’ . |
| 8 | That planning has been poor is more the fault of the economy than BR , the high interest rates at the end of 1989 being seen as likely to repeat the recession of 1981 out of which we climbed so painfully . |
| 9 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 10 | Also taking that view was Dr Tony Andrews of the Royal Veterinary College in London , who said : ‘ I know I have to be careful in what I say but in my view , the management in many herds as far as feeding regimes are concerned is little better than controlled starvation . ’ |
| 11 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 12 | A librarian whose shelves are full is therefore obliged to weed at a rate which is precisely equal to that of his new accessions . |
| 13 | Grice does not suggest that this is an exhaustive list — he notes that a maxim such as Be polite is also normally observed — nor that equal weight should be attached to each of the stated maxims . |
| 14 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 15 | Slowly , as I 'm afraid is always the case . |
| 16 | Encouraging children to wish to be good is more important than making them be good . |
| 17 | Learning to be independent is also a large part of the education at New College . |
| 18 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |
| 19 | The process thought to be responsible is broadly analogous to sea-floor spreading along mid-oceanic ridges . |
| 20 | First , as you discovered in exercise 10.1 , while the wealthier members of any society claim to be more happy than poorer members of that society , the cross-cultural association between the average amount of wealth in a country and the proportion who claim to be happy is extremely weak . |
| 21 | ‘ The need to be vigilant is as great now as it ever was . ’ |
| 22 | In practice , these boundary conditions are difficult to apply , basically because the condition that M be continuous is only indirectly applied to the functions V and W , or Z , or E , that feature in the main equations . |
| 23 | To vary the analogy , not to be religious is already to have invested money in what is as high a risk venture as an investment in religion . |
| 24 | That what we know to be true is no longer true . |
| 25 | The number of deaths for which this is likely to be true is so small that it ought not to affect the analysis presented here . |
| 26 | The picture which emerges from this study is one where assistance between more distant kin is of relatively minor importance to the total picture ( although of course it may be very important in particular cases ) , and that whether it is likely to be significant is rather idiosyncratic and unpredictable . |
| 27 | The search for goodness could take the new hero into academia and out again , despairing of its false intellectualism and its established assumption that to be intelligent is only and always to be an intellectual . |
| 28 | It is impossible to quantify these concepts precisely and the assumption that changes are small is more likely to be valid in large-scale problems ( where one coefficient , for example , is less important in relation to the rest of the data ) than in the simple examples used for illustration , but the underlying principles are independent of such considerations . |
| 29 | Even if the time for which these representations are available is very brief ( because of the word mask ) two representations will still be better than one . |
| 30 | Whether the beta-adrenergic effects of adrenaline , which tend to increase myocardial work and reduce subendocardial perfusion , are detrimental is still controversial . |