Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] be " in BNC.

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1 The most complex and most difficult to analyse are tasks requiring original thinking often with many apparently random alternations between deduction and induction , this occurs in fault diagnosis tasks .
2 Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred .
3 I have been extremely fortunate to have worked in three scientific spheres : botanical , paleontological and malacological , over 19 years and even luckier to have been able to do scientific illustrating for publication , on subjects as diverse as grass flowers and tiny rodent jawbones !
4 This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets .
5 The erection of a large shrine as an imposing architectural feature is not unusual in the Roman world , although the only other example in Britain appears to be the extraordinary octagonal structure at Lufton , identified as a ‘ cold plunge ’ but more likely to have been a shrine associated with a water cult .
6 But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way .
7 All told , I regard myself as incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity of being Chairman of the National Gallery , and I could n't have enjoyed it more .
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