Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd agree — While it 's great to see 2 away wins up , we have n't beaten any of the ‘ classy ’ teams yet … our wins have mostly been over the lower teams … which brings us to Wimbledon this week . |
| 2 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 3 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 4 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 5 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 6 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 7 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 8 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 9 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 10 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 11 | financial services have long been among the heaviest users of search ; Michael Brookes at Nomura referred to 20 major assignments in less than three years with many more slightly lower-level searches . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 13 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 14 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 15 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 16 | You produce a good magazine each month ; the readers ' letters alone are worth the annual subscription . |
| 17 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 18 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 19 | If he retires then , it will only be from the public arena . |
| 20 | Yes the chassis mounts will take the 4203 The engine will give a lot more torque but you will need an overdrive or the top speed will only be in the mid forties |
| 21 | But this would only be in the major things , Cassie . |
| 22 | It should , in my opinion , only be in the rare cases where the very issue of interpretation which the courts are called on to resolve has been addressed in Parliamentary debate and where the promoter of the legislation has made a clear statement directed to that very issue , that reference to Hansard should be permitted . |
| 23 | Well , yes , but in the long run that it , that wo n't be , it will only be in the short term , when we 're really honing out . |
| 24 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 25 | One local farmer commented that for McCartney to put an end to the hunt might not necessarily be in the best interests of the deer . |
| 26 | Also , if larger-than-normal books are stacked separately , or if special books are kept in separate collections , every book on the same subject will not necessarily be in the same place in the library . |
| 27 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 28 | She climbed into the carriage knowing it would perhaps be for the last time ; maintaining the horses and the grooms was a luxury she would have to forgo . |
| 29 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 30 | Were , we 're not attached to any sort of department , like housing or leisure , were actually in the organisation , were in the general management department and were not alone erm , the planning er originally the general manager 's department and the winners and equality unit are in that department as well and the general manager has his own erm policy , officer and secretarian , so were in the general manager 's department and in other Council 's that would be known as the Chief Executive Department . |