Example sentences of "to be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper reporters , the commercial writers and the popularizers may have great social insight and great interviewing skills , but their work is very likely to be strongly value-laden and biased and they are not working for the development of sociological theory . |
| 2 | We can observe a familiar transition from a relatively general training , in these highly valued skills , to degrees of specialization and professionalization in more complex societies , but some forms of specialization seem to be remarkably early and , on the other hand , there are probably no societies in which relatively general training in forms of these basic skills is not attempted . |
| 3 | The educational history of the surveying profession began around 1881 ; after the granting of the Charter in 1868 , an initial examination structure was developed in 1880 which proved to be remarkably durable and apposite , surviving almost intact until 1932 . |
| 4 | Middle-class moralists might be ardent , even strident , but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent . |
| 5 | Omar was a devout Muslim and like the best Somalis was proud and fearless , though he proved to be remarkably tactful and forbearing whenever I was impatient or angry , and always upheld my authority even when I made a mistake . |
| 6 | They were all written in nineteen thirty-nine or nineteen forty , and though they all concerned Walter Machin and his writing , or the industrial environment in which he lived and had grown up , they nevertheless contrived to be oddly impersonal and unrevealing . |
| 7 | POLICE in Cleveland last night warned people depositing cash to be extra vigilant after a company director was robbed outside a bank . |
| 8 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 9 | If you 're watching a sett that is n't often visited by humans it 's as well to be extra careful and observe the following basic rules . |
| 10 | Now I have my lovely mate , I have schooled myself to be neither malicious nor miserable , and not to hate People . |
| 11 | Thus , for a short interlude , the religion of the monarch could be said to be neither papist nor Protestant ; and while it was safe to admit to either persuasion , it was wise to support neither too vigorously . |
| 12 | However , that morning Agnes intended to be neither forgettable nor invisible . |
| 13 | The creation of these new consumption needs by TNCs tends to be neither random nor arbitrary , but structured in terms of a hegemonic world view . |
| 14 | I just hoped whatever it was would prove to be neither inconvenient nor dangerous . |
| 15 | Old , or unearned , money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going , whereas new money tends to be both . |
| 16 | It seemed to take an unreasonably long time and much bad temper , evasion and deliberate obfuscation , together with consultation of a diary that appeared to be alternately blank and covered with scribbled hieroglyphics . |
| 17 | The need to assist people to be economically active where they live may make it expedient to encourage educational support systems linked with other services at the local level . |
| 18 | If a business makes both exempt and taxable supplies , it is said to be partially exempt and will be able to recover only part of the input VAT . |
| 19 | Anne seemed to be scarcely listening and at a sound from her mother dashed back to her side , followed by Sarah and Mrs Bennet . |
| 20 | The Blumler report lists a few breaches of the rules of coverage during the experiment , but , proportionately , very few indeed , and Members seem to be broadly happy that the cameras have respected the rules . |
| 21 | Working in Habitat on Kings Road proved to be depressingly similar and again Ms Ledson was paid off , that time after three weeks . |
| 22 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 23 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 24 | Such an approach is considered to be increasingly unreliable and subject to significant variations depending upon the assumptions made . |
| 25 | Perhaps this will increase if it can be shown , in a cost minimisation analysis , to be equally effective but of lower cost . |
| 26 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 27 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 28 | The storage of grain or many bolts of cloth imposed loads upon the structures of these buildings almost as heavy as the machinery contained in the textile mills and therefore their construction had to be equally robust and similarly fireproof . |
| 29 | The 1840 Preface to The Chronicles of Crime ; or The New Newgate Calendar indicates a new ‘ moral ’ tone — ‘ Chronicles of Crime must comprise details , not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society , but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable ’ . |
| 30 | Fourthly , implicature , or at least some closely related concept , seems to be simply essential if various basic facts about language are to be accounted for properly . |