Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 2 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 3 | He maintains that when you do this test , which will show how you approach problem solving , you will be somewhere along that continuum . |
| 4 | Hard solders join by interdiffusion at high temperatures with the metals being bonded , so that composition at the join will be somewhere between that of the solder and that of the object . |
| 5 | anyway I 'm not sure when our allocation of tickets goes on sale , but it 's only likely to be somewhere between 2–3,000 . |
| 6 | Now we 're going to be somewhere between forty and forty five percent . |
| 7 | On a scale of judicial independence the British courts would be somewhere between those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , but rather closer to the former than the latter . |
| 8 | Depending on the procedural details , as they emerge , I suspect of course that the truth for most teachers will be somewhere between these two extremes . |
| 9 | Less than an hour before the end Europe 's chances of retaining an outright lead were judged to be somewhere between slim and nil but that was before Mark James and Howard Clark made their massive contribution . |
| 10 | Given the dire state of the rouble , computer sales in Russia now tend to be mostly to those pockets of the economy still generating hard currency . |
| 11 | Certainly not the Ketterings ' ancestors as they appeared to be mostly of sly Italian clerics . |
| 12 | But the total number of human genes may be upward of 100,000 and many of these represent a number of different options . ) |
| 13 | Using the cumulative normal distribution table , we know that this range will be within plus/minus 1.96 standard deviations of the expected mean . |
| 14 | Was not the citizens charter supposed to be all about open Government ? |
| 15 | While existing premium products were considered adult they were , says Bartle , thought to be all about formal occasions , badge values and impressing others . |
| 16 | E.g. everyone in some place might wear white Sta-Prests and the next mob might be all in dark green . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I seem to be all in one piece , Nurse — sorry , Sister . |
| 18 | But it 's good to be all in one piece again . ’ |
| 19 | If you look back at any year you only get ten or 20 good records and they 're not likely to be all in one week . ’ |
| 20 | I must apologise for this stupid oversight which is doubtless my fault — a symptom of the pressure we seem to be constantly under these days . |
| 21 | Lord above , she had not imagined there to be much above ten hundred to be left ! |
| 22 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 23 | But for one Chilean exile , Andres Valenzuela , Thursday will be much like any other day — long , boring and lonely . |
| 24 | There need not , I reflected , be much in this , for Miss Macdonald was patently the soul of loyalty , and in her eyes no Stavanger — no male Stavanger , at any rate — could do anything wrong . |
| 25 | They also argue that the performance of students who entered universities and polytechnics with vocational qualifications tended to be somewhat below that of A level entrants . |
| 26 | Yes , but do you agree your houses are going to be somewhat above that ? |
| 27 | That does n't seem to be so at some stages it is a little difficult getting it over as a as a a retired person talking to someone who is facing redundancy about retirement . |
| 28 | It is logical that this should be so for actuarial skills are in limited supply , are in increasing demand , and frequently carry a great deal of responsibility . |
| 29 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 30 | I believe strongly in our separate strengths — surely it should be so with all couples — that you give each other support , and character . |