Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the scum playing at high flying Newcastle , a win could possibly move us to within single digit points range of the scum whose fans incidently are becoming more insufferable with every day that passes . |
| 2 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 3 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 4 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 5 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 6 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 7 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 8 | Certain kinds of violence had long been thought particularly un-English . |
| 9 | The winter Olympics especially are becoming ever harder to fit into sensitive mountain settings , which must be protected from a rolling programme of environmental damage . |
| 10 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 11 | She went on : ‘ The image has obviously been watered down these last seasons and the situation must be reversed . ’ |
| 12 | It 's for those reasons , sir , that the City Council feels that it can no longer support the proposed proposals for new settlement , just to come to your question about the issue of scale , I am not able to define what er small is in P P G three , it 's obviously been left deliberately vague , but I would draw your attention to the Ucwetec T P A study I 've just referred to which makes it quite clear in their terms that to be self contained in transport terms the nearest any settlement ne really needs to be in excess of twenty thousand people . |
| 13 | Head End commissioning Manager said : ‘ There are a lot of people who together are working tremendously hard to achieve THORP start-up . |
| 14 | Estimates will apparently be pitched slightly lower than comparable items in Western sales , and payment can be made in any Western currency . |
| 15 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 16 | It is , like most of the concepts in social science , a contested , relatively vague one that can only be made less vague , of greater theoretical relevance through systematic empirical exploration . |
| 17 | The idea that a baseline need only be established immediately prior to delivery of an operational system is considered to be unsound . |
| 18 | Many people have become paupers after their association with her but the pleasure of her company can only be had as long as one is in possession of riches to bestow on her . ’ |
| 19 | Accordingly P P G three on paragraph thirty three states that a new settlement should normally only be contemplated where certain criteria are satisfied , including avoidance of the greenbelt . |
| 20 | ‘ This view can not perhaps be made entirely consistent with all that is said by Lord Eldon in the case Ex parte Gifford ( 1802 ) 6 Ves . |
| 21 | It would perhaps be putting too much faith in the chain of causation to argue that pit closures and decline in the coal industry over the past decade had anything to do with England 's failure with the new ball . |
| 22 | As a result , the main criterion was based on estimated teaching activity with past research performance apparently being accorded relatively little weight . ’ |
| 23 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 24 | conflict — which alone is considered wholly harmful . |
| 25 | The raising of a mentally handicapped child is a long and hard road , but then many would say so is bringing up any child . |
| 26 | By 1914 Great Britain alone was producing as much coal as the whole of Europe had done in 1880 . |
| 27 | Section 7(4) has thus been rendered partially otiose . |
| 28 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 29 | Oak Grove Road slopes down sharply from Croydon Road and houses had already been built nearly half way down . |
| 30 | He had already been seen once that day . |