Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It frightens me to think that not only are we so vulnerable to these monsters but also that we are constantly blamed for being provocative or careless . |
| 32 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 33 | Many collars , sprays and powders are only claimed to be effective against fleas . |
| 34 | He exists , stressed and traumatised , in complete conflict with his biological program , literally dying to be free . |
| 35 | He exists , stressed and traumatised , in complete conflict with his biological program , literally dying to be free . |
| 36 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 37 | Your pond only has to be large enough to catch the returning water . |
| 38 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 39 | This is an astonishing view of the world ; a perversely reversed megalomania ; an assertion that all forms of political and military life were brought into existence by the grand design of the Soviet Union so that if those designs suddenly cease to be hostile , then all that is solid in the West will melt . |
| 40 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 41 | He had obviously decided to be pleasant to her . |
| 42 | Others have a large enough budget to be able to retain their independence , these publications will probably ask for background material only or will send a journalist to cover the story on the spot . |
| 43 | Although Boardwalk was drawn on the inside , Kelly hoped to get a good enough break to be able to settle third or fourth . |
| 44 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 45 | Rincewind turned to run , but the air suddenly seemed to be thicker than treacle . |
| 46 | A rich peasant is a peasant who works his own land but will employ some wage labour as well because he has a large enough plot to be able to , to need to do that . |
| 47 | Jesus was describing a fulfilled life which could only grow to be better and better . |
| 48 | Indeed they do not only appear to be immoral , but dishonest as well . |
| 49 | On the other hand , Virtual Network Architecture is nicely positioned to be scalable to the wide area . |
| 50 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 51 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 52 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 53 | She opened the front door and stepped out into the corridor , which was more private than the flat if mother was only pretending to be asleep , which was possible . |
| 54 | He trots around doing menial jobs under the eye of the warder , but in fact is a guerrilla leader who is merely pretending to be mad . |
| 55 | ‘ If you are on £3,000 a week with a mercedes and a lovely wife to put the tea on you are naturally going to be softer than the sportsmen who has nothing . |
| 56 | I would so much like to be wise , |
| 57 | I would very much like to be able to tell you how many species there are in the ‘ open water ’ group , but to be honest , in common with some scientists as well as other hobbyists , I 'm not sure . |
| 58 | This plan 's only going to be successful if they do n't suspect anything , and if they see her around they 'll suspect lots . |
| 59 | After all , the survey will have to be done at some stage and it is only going to be helpful to carry out a pilot if it tells the designer something he did not know . |
| 60 | For some reason there 's only going to be 2,000 singles pressed which means you 're either going to have to be very lucky or start saving your unpaid poll tax money now . |