Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been deftly successful with its new Universal credit card . |
| 2 | They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last September , and Dulcie has been keenly involved with Medau for over 36 years , starting with the Post Natal Classes at Days Lane School , Sidcup , taken by Molly Braithwaite and Peggy Secord . |
| 3 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 4 | His granddaughter , Jessie Mould , has been keenly interested in the movements of her family over the generations and after she had discovered that her seventeenth-century ancestors were mentioned in Richard Gough 's History of Myddle ( 1701–2 ) she published More Tales of Banks Peninsula and wrote in her foreword : |
| 5 | Social revolutionaries have been keenly aware of the force of nationalism , as well as ideologically committed to national autonomy , even when it is not actually wanted , as among the Lusatian Slavs , whose language is slowly retreating , in spite of the previous admirable efforts of the German Democratic Republic to foster it . |
| 6 | The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs . |
| 7 | In Spain , governments have been keenly aware of RENFE 's position as the model whose pay and conditions were likely to have major repercussions for other firms throughout the economy . |
| 8 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 9 | The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled : Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces . |
| 10 | The newer recruits who joined the water authorities after reorganization of the water industry are predominantly young men in their twenties . |
| 11 | These are predominantly agricultural labourers in Bolivia 's main Quechua-speaking areas : Cochabamba , Potosi and Sucre . |
| 12 | The cracks are predominantly concentric with respect to the impact centre , though some are radial . |
| 13 | These are predominantly coarse-grained red-beds comprising conglomerates and coarse sandstones , but some beds of grey mudstone and siltstone have also been noted . |
| 14 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |
| 15 | If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues . |
| 16 | Largely for this reason , answers to the question ‘ Do you like shopping ? ’ are predominantly favourable ; many women mention ‘ getting out of the house ’ or ‘ meeting people ’ as advantages of shopping . |
| 17 | The survey showed that EHA patients with leg ulcers treated by DNs are predominantly elderly women who are moderately disabled , have had previous episodes of ulceration and lead restricted social lives . |
| 18 | However robbery , rape and assault are predominantly intra-racial for white offenders in America , but significantly inter-racial for black offenders . |
| 19 | The British picture is different ; rapes , robbery and assault are predominantly intra-racial as far as can be analysed , except for racial attacks on blacks . |
| 20 | It should , however , be noted that seasonal jobs in retailing , like regular jobs in the sector , are predominantly part-time jobs . |
| 21 | The term suggests that the memory and reasoning processes of the people are predominantly visual ( though picture is also used of other senses ) ; one of the things they have to learn is to make abstractions from such data . |
| 22 | As these figures suggest , councillors are predominantly male , middle-aged , and middle-class to a far greater extent than the population as a whole . |
| 23 | As a general rule , Turkoman , Afghan and Anatolian rugs are predominantly non-figurative , whereas those from the other rug-producing countries often use realistic , if sometimes highly abstracted , plant , bird , animal and human forms . |
| 24 | Some of the masses , such as those at Huntly and Belhelvie , are predominantly ultrabasic . |
| 25 | Some are predominantly academic , others vocational . |
| 26 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 27 | Broadly speaking ‘ classical ’ texts such as Balzac 's ‘ Sarrasine ’ are predominantly readerly , whereas modern texts are predominantly writerly . |
| 28 | Services are predominantly curative . |
| 29 | Lewis and Meredith ( 1988 ) reveal similar tensions and problems although the picture which they draw is less bleak , showing a number of women whose recollections of caring for their mothers are predominantly positive , even if stressful . |
| 30 | If most of your ticks are against the statements in section A , then you are predominantly left-brained ; whereas If you have placed more ticks against the section B statements , you are predominantly right-brained . |