Example sentences of "be [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 2 | It 'll be right one day . |
| 3 | If , as we have suggested , the consumer will instead be encouraged to continue to save , or pay off more debt , the growth in retail sales volumes could well be effectively zero . |
| 4 | ( Since we have taken the concentration diffusivity to be effectively zero , this is sufficient to give the effect we are looking for ) . |
| 5 | The instructor 's rating in terms of party size is presumably linked to school party abseiling expeditions where the group may be merely one class , or a whole year group for instance . |
| 6 | Whether they are aboard here or on Santorini it will be all one to them when they join us in what Lieutenant Denholm is pleased to call vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 7 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 8 | They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits . |
| 9 | Clearly , groups of two bases would be insufficient , because there would be only 4 2 = 16 ordered pairs ( that is , there are four ways of choosing the first base , and , for each choice , four ways of choosing the second ) , and hence only 16 different amino acids could be specified . |
| 10 | This information for each edge could be packed into one 32-bit word ( 7 bits for the letter , 1 bit for the flag and 24 bits for the index ) , which would be only 4 bytes per edge . |
| 11 | But she erm thinks that the way it should be only four days rather than three . |
| 12 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 13 | In fact , if every Briton decided to go to the seaside on the same day there would be only four inches of sand per person ! |
| 14 | For example , there might be only four contracts traded per year , with the following delivery months : March , June , September and December . |
| 15 | The ’ Harriet was hungry ’ example may be only nine words long , but it nevertheless demonstrates many aspects of knowledge that need to be made explicit to a computer before it could be said to understand . |
| 16 | It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town , though in actuality it might be only five or six . |
| 17 | ‘ Therefore , ’ said Milton , ‘ since there appear to be only five possibles — all of whom we have decided are improbables — we 're going to have to work quite hard . |
| 18 | Economic conditions were described as deteriorating , and economic growth was expected to be only 1 per cent in 1992 ( compared with 2.25 per cent in 1991 ) . |
| 19 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 20 | But there could be only one winner , in 1985 as in 1919 . |
| 21 | This was a question to which , for a patriotic Conservative leader , there could be only one answer . |
| 22 | Sir Archibald Sinclair , the Secretary of State for Air , thought there should be only one company , and Lord Beaverbrook stated that free enterprise should have the widest possible scope in the operation of the companies . |
| 23 | He is optimistic , naturally , on the basis of sales growth in the earlier stores , but there will be only one new store in the US this year . |
| 24 | But it should be added that at the press preview , I seemed to be only one of several spectators who chose to devote themselves during these scenes to a meticulous scrutiny of their shoes . |
| 25 | By having to concede free elections at the round-table talks on Thursday night , the Communists have , in effect , accepted they will in future be only one partner in a pluralist political system . |
| 26 | If one affirms that there is and can be only one ultimate and self-sufficient principle , the transcendent Father , and also that the divine Triad is three distinct realities ( as Origen had taught ) , it is not easy then to affirm that the Son and the Father are in being identical or ‘ of one substance ’ — not at least without fairly complicated explanations . |
| 27 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 28 | Short now trails 2–1 in the best of 10 match , the winner of which will be only one step away from a contest with world champion Gary Kasparov in 1993 . |
| 29 | I feel there can be only one conclusion . |
| 30 | There can be only one all-powerful creator and sustainer of the world . |