Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
| 2 | Knowing I am rather a special person . |
| 3 | I think you are rather a vain girl and thinking too much about your figure . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
| 5 | We are rather an old congregation , there 's no doubt about it , apart from the here . |
| 6 | There are effectively no vibrational selection rules , so the technique is particularly useful for detecting vibrations that do not appear in either IR or Raman spectra . |
| 7 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 9 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 10 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 11 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 12 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 13 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 14 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 15 | Good photography or colour reproductions can enhance the quality of a book , but are rarely a crucial factor outside the obvious field of the visual arts . |
| 16 | He had been right the first time . |
| 17 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 18 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 19 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 20 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
| 21 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 22 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 23 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 24 | After all , leg ulcers are overwhelmingly a nursing problem . |
| 25 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
| 26 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 27 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 28 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
| 29 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |
| 30 | We are , therefore , left with mortality rates : there are obviously no definitional problems and there are no major problems in relation to data . |