Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desdemona is not a whore , he is not ‘ Justice ’ ( V.ii.17 ) , and when he kills her — ‘ I that am cruel am yet merciful ’ ( 90 ) — we see that he has even learned Iago 's trick of euphemism ( cf. |
| 2 | If they do n't love me for what I am that 's just tough shit ! |
| 3 | Many of the word trigrams that are possible are not present in the corpus . |
| 4 | The way you look after yourself when you are pregnant is very important , both for you and your baby . |
| 5 | The recognition that all parts of the psychobiological system governing the lives of individuals are interrelated is surprisingly recent . |
| 6 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 7 | In identifying these three , Urry is concerned to argue against both the Marxist concept of base and superstructure and the ‘ autonomist ’ approach that the three spheres are autonomous are both inadequate , because they fail |
| 8 | Those of us who are apathetic are usually tired , cynical and very draining to be with , because we drag others down to our level , or try to . |
| 9 | Now we 're all being so frank , I 'll be frank too . |
| 10 | I 'm the only sensible one here , and you 're both being very childish . ’ |
| 11 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 12 | The men are all being so unkind , they 're making fun of my relaxing clothes . |
| 13 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 14 | People who are overweight are more likely to have heart attacks ; there is also a link between certain forms of cancer and people eating too much stodgy food . |
| 15 | The point with which we are concerned was therefore well in the mind of the committee . |
| 16 | A librarian whose shelves are full is therefore obliged to weed at a rate which is precisely equal to that of his new accessions . |
| 17 | erm I mean it 's a surely it 's a political decision is it not , I mean there 's been a lot of controversy as you I 'm sure are well aware about the Medley boat station ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure being rather photogenic has helped me , ’ he says . |
| 19 | It is impossible to quantify these concepts precisely and the assumption that changes are small is more likely to be valid in large-scale problems ( where one coefficient , for example , is less important in relation to the rest of the data ) than in the simple examples used for illustration , but the underlying principles are independent of such considerations . |
| 20 | Even if the time for which these representations are available is very brief ( because of the word mask ) two representations will still be better than one . |
| 21 | In addition , because health problems associated with childbearing are not of great importance in the vast majority of developed countries , such data on material morbidity as are available are both unsystematic and infrequent , and must be culled from relatively obscure sources . |
| 22 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 23 | Whether the beta-adrenergic effects of adrenaline , which tend to increase myocardial work and reduce subendocardial perfusion , are detrimental is still controversial . |
| 24 | S&P500 futures were chosen for investigation because they are frequently traded and have a small tick size ( relative to daily price movements ) , and so the assumption that prices are continuous is approximately correct ( when the futures market is open ) . |
| 25 | If young people , as yet unformed in their disciplines and unconfident in their values , are left largely in control of their own leisure time and the adults to whom they are closest are either absent or benignly indifferent to their activities , then a moral vacuum is created . |
| 26 | Our argument is that a discussion about whether positivist or natural law theories are correct is as useful as a discussion about whether Italian or Greek is the correct language to speak : it is however useful to recognise that someone is an Italian speaker if one wants to communicate with him . |
| 27 | Whether the performance indicators relating to these issues are relevant is more difficult . |
| 28 | Whether or not these criticisms of inefficiency are valid is extremely difficult to assess , and the situation is complicated by repeated political interference by governments of both parties in the pricing , investment and employment decisions of nationalised industries , thereby concealing their real performance . |
| 29 | ‘ I think you are both being very considerate . ’ |
| 30 | It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression . |