Example sentences of "[be] in the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think you 're in the least manipulative . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Although I do n't know why you 're in the least interested . ’ |
| 3 | And I do n't think I need point out that I am in the most awkward situation of all . |
| 4 | I am in the under sixteen boys football team . |
| 5 | But I do not think I am in the least inferior to those ‘ super-apostles ’ . |
| 6 | Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour . |
| 7 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 8 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 9 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 10 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 11 | There had been in the brilliantly brave ace at 5–6 in the first set tie break , which denied Sampras the set point he had earned with an ace of his own . |
| 12 | I have n't been in the least difficult about your doing all that sewing . |
| 13 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 14 | Cara had not been in the least surprised to hear it . |
| 15 | Indeed de Gaulle would not have been in the least surprised had he known of Kennedy 's assurance to Macmillan in April 1961 that Anglo-American relations would be strengthened by British entry . |
| 16 | ‘ You were scavenging ? ’ he enquired , as though he had not been in the least surprised to find her rummaging waist-deep through a multifarious pile of flotsam and jetsam . |
| 17 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |
| 18 | The retired group is much smaller in developing countries where about 55% are in the economically active age range and more than 40% are under 15 . |
| 19 | And if you look at the departments erm in the City and the County , it 's largely men who are in the most powerful positions in terms of policy making . |
| 20 | Amativeness , that is , love , and the nervous system , are in the most perfect mutual sympathy . |
| 21 | For example , many of the houses which they buy are in the most remote or inconvenient situations and would otherwise have been abandoned by the local residents . |
| 22 | Comparing this figure with the estimate of 614450 derived from the childhood supplement implies that nearly 90% of the unoccupied children are in the most disadvantaged group of one parent families . |
| 23 | Not all the ski areas are in the most sensitive ‘ mountain core ’ areas . |
| 24 | As long as the maximum dimension involved is small in comparison with the wavelength , we are in the slowly varying region . |
| 25 | The propertyless proletariat , exploited and progressively immiserized in line with Marx 's expectations , are in the less developed countries . |
| 26 | The present sixty , sixty five regime is discriminating against men , but when in reality it is the women who are in the much inferior position . |
| 27 | Kitchens Of Distinction are in the potentially painful process of arriving : they 're on a collision course with 1991 , and , despite all the fashion points stacked against them , the no-great-rush policy seems ready to pay off . |
| 28 | Although the reasons for observed variations in pregnancy and delivery complications by maternal age and parity are not full understood , the fact of these differentials remains , and when women are in the very early or late childbearing ages , of zero or high parity , they are at risk and are therefore in need of care and of health and family planning information and service . |
| 29 | Naturally they are in the very best locations , have the best views and are truly cosmopolitan in their ambience and atmosphere . |
| 30 | More than half of the gainfully employed population are in the very heterogeneous Class III but at least the coding is seldom changed . |