Example sentences of "[adv] to be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The biggest initiative has been the virtual nationwide provision of two-year part-time course for full-time teachers leading to Certificates in Education ( FE ) , but there has also been a growth in Diploma and higher degree courses and there seem likely soon to be additional initial BEd . |
| 2 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 3 | Wittgenstein 's account of the source of the illusion that thinking is a stream which must be flowing under the surface of the auxiliary activities of making trials and comparisons , if these are not to be mere mechanical procedures ( 107 ) , is particularly interesting . |
| 4 | We would like — wishful thinking perhaps — there still to be some apparent magic in the way we renew and transform our outward image . |
| 5 | There are also to be 100 time-ownership properties and an 18-hole golf course . |
| 6 | There seem also to be other compositional differences , such as in the silicates which make up the greater part of both planets . |
| 7 | Under the Ayyubids there was also to be another major development , the raising of a mercenary army of Turkish slave soldiers to protect the rulers . |
| 8 | Those of the low Arctic ( within a boundary similar to that of Aleksandrova , discussed on p. 85 ) appear mainly to be boreal alpine species that have spread northward . |
| 9 | WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ? |
| 10 | Which is why it always surprises me when people turn out to be such bad listeners . |
| 11 | For , far from being the paper-plates-and-pasta evening which Alex had imagined , this dinner party had turned out to be solid English upper-middle-class stuff of the most formal kind . |
| 12 | I 'm a musician , so St. Andrews night is one of the , the great weeks of the year and erm invariably turns out to be male orientated , erm |
| 13 | The ex MFV had been fitted out to be self sufficient in every way , with the latest navigational aids , long range fuel and water tanks and a very comprehensively fitted out workshop on board for mechanical and other repairs . |
| 14 | The ‘ some information ’ turned out to be nine specific subjects in research and development fields , which , though useful , excluded anything to do with weapons . |
| 15 | From the Birch causeway , a long raft of small duck out on the middle region turned out to be 52 ruddy duck — our highest total for a count at Abberton . |
| 16 | Central reforms were eventually to adjust such discrepancies , but as with the tax changes , they turned out to be blunt bureaucratic instruments not sufficiently finely tuned to local needs . |
| 17 | However , some computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) have what are called logical comparison instructions , which turn out to be unsigned fixed-point binary comparisons . |
| 18 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 19 | It was the battle hymn of the striking coal miners in 1984 , and the old man used to sing it while he watched them fighting the police on the television , but it turned out to be another lost cause . |
| 20 | However , the Scot has had successive deciding-frame victories here in Belgium and perhaps his Wembley success may turn out to be another false dawn as he chases his first ranking title of an erratic season . |
| 21 | ‘ These patients turned out to be high spirited chums at school , ’ reported Dr David Watson . |
| 22 | He takes over from Alloa-based Derek Allison who has moved on to be British national coach . |
| 23 | This snowstorm might put them off , but we would do well to be extra watchful tonight . ’ |
| 24 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 25 | You learn to be middle aged and then to be old aged . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't , ’ Markby said tentatively , ‘ like to interfere with the chef 's methods , but ought there to be that burning smell ? ’ |
| 27 | Gandhi , of course , was wrong in supposing there to be any fundamental conflict in Irwin between the viceroy and the man . |
| 28 | He had n't the speed yet to be sure Golden Girl would come about . |