Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few Tit for Tat individuals do n't meet each other often enough to be of mutual benefit . |
| 2 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 3 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 4 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 5 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 6 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 7 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |
| 8 | The aim is to contribute to anthropological understanding of the incest taboo and also to be of practical use to the therapeutic team . |
| 9 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 10 | Patients readmitted to hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding shown endoscopically to be from oesophageal varices were classified as having failed surgical therapy . |
| 11 | It has yet to be of proven value , but studies are currently in progress . |
| 12 | The association maintains that a full family history has proved over and over again to be of vital importance . |
| 13 | The lexicon system provided with the ANLT is sufficiently large however to be of comparable size to that used in the probabilistic system . |
| 14 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 15 | The stylistic originality of the novel , although remarkable in itself , was judged ultimately to be of secondary importance . |
| 16 | There is nothing to suggest that a link with the County Hospital was ever contemplated ; the proposed collaboration was evidently to be with other poor law institutions only , and the initial approach was made in fact to the North Evington Infirmary in Leicester . |