Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in the evening when the body temperature is beginning to fall , there is a natural tendency to fall asleep and in the morning , when body temperature begins to rise rapidly , we are most likely to wake up . |
| 2 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 3 | New members are most welcome to come along . |
| 4 | Standards are much easier to work on — the work is at eye level and your back does n't have to break . |
| 5 | They have not always been sufficiently quick to follow up when there has been evidence that a site has been tampered with , and certainly they have not always been keen to organise rescue excavations to investigate these sites . |
| 6 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 7 | Because the elite , through their superior wealth , are better able to live up to the so-called modern values , which are all the more costly to support because of their external source , they are further differentiated from the poor . |
| 8 | Improved diet would have reduced death rates primarily because well fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease . |
| 9 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 10 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 11 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 12 | These changes have very real implications for librarians , who must ensure that their initial trawl of new publications is comprehensive , since they are less likely to pick up , through a later stock revision , titles they have initially missed . |
| 13 | ‘ Also you are less likely to fall off as the saddle is constructed with two pommels to grip . |
| 14 | The system ought to be to attempt to guess , or find out by other means , the numbers that other people are less likely to put down . |
| 15 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 16 | Bacteriological plastic Petri dishes ( e.g. from Sterilin ) are preferable to glass because the embryos are less inclined to skid about . |
| 17 | ‘ I am only curious to find out why kissing you ignites such a conflagration inside us both … ’ |
| 18 | The paper versions ( hard copy ) are extremely difficult to search through systematically , particularly if the search is to extend over several years . |
| 19 | Potassium permanganate has the disadvantage of producing solid manganese dioxide during the process of oxidation which can cause blockages and importantly where any of the chlorinated oxidising agents are used care needs to be taken when phenolic contaminants are present as there have been instances of chlorophenols being formed which in turn produce most obnoxious odours sometimes toxic which are extremely difficult to break down . |
| 20 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |
| 21 | At the other end of the spectrum , some farmers are so keen to pass on as much as they can to the next generation they leave themselves and their spouses with no capital or income on which to live . |
| 22 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 23 | Well those things are so difficult to work out oh trying to get the li rid of the spaces there have that |
| 24 | The problem is that most of us are so busy rushing around that we fail to become aware of those feelings and to consider what they might be telling us . |
| 25 | I am merely concerned to point out that a clarification of particular-identity is normally given in terms of our experience with things in perceptual space and perpeptual time . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , the place is filthy and we are only able to clean up superficially . ’ |
| 27 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 28 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 29 | ‘ And John … preached , saying , There cometh one mightier than I after me , the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose ’ ( Mark 1:7 ) . |
| 30 | Sadly , as in India , when we are already one match down ! |