Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 2 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |
| 3 | One thing we were both sure of was that we would return in the near future with no carp tackle , but to fish purely for the cats , that is if we can get booked of course . |
| 4 | What we can , however , be reasonably certain of is that they will have at least some common experiences of television dramas ; these can themselves provide us with useful starting points . |
| 5 | We 're Vice Presidents of Somerset Cricket Club , and the one thing that John is most proud of is that he once slow-bowled Dennis Compton during a match against the MCC . ’ |