Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all too easy to be cynical about British fashion , but his constructive criticism and public demand for action is long overdue . |
| 2 | But it 's much more likely to be due to human error . |
| 3 | I think if you have mainly pain in there it 's much more likely to be a little bit of inflammation under the this tendon which goes from the muscle here over the top of the kneecap and attaches in there . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's much more likely to be here for your children , ’ Laura had told her firmly . |
| 5 | It 's much more comfortable to be someone else , to manufacture feelings . |
| 6 | Well it 's he 's being very intelligent cos it 's much too big to be a cat . |
| 7 | Right after that you 'll learn that once the bird is stabilised in the dive it 's all too easy to be a bit late recovering and end up pulling g . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's all too easy to be heroic with the lives of other people , ’ he told MPs . |
| 9 | There are occasions when the strategy demands whole group discussions and it 's all too easy to be lulled into thinking the drama is going well because a group of very articulate children are thoroughly engaged in the work and able to vocalise their very imaginative ideas , while other children are left out of the real decisionmaking processes . |
| 10 | If , indeed , more than one craftsman was responsible , it is only just possible to be sure of areas where relevant contrasts occur . |
| 11 | Climber and Hill Walker is only too pleased to be of assistance in bringing the circumstances of Jeremy 's death to public attention — Ed . |
| 12 | The section , ‘ The family ’ , is perhaps more likely to be explored in terms of an imaginary one — the family in a story or rhyme , or the family of dolls that lives in the doll 's house . |
| 13 | Here the exclusion of liability is obviously least likely to be reasonable . |
| 14 | There is obviously still much to be learned from a study of the two hybrids . |
| 15 | This is obviously too short to be considered a day 's walk so if you 're sticking to the low level route you should link straight in to Day 11 by following the road from Elterwater to Grasmere . |
| 16 | Firm I 's pessimism may be more readily justified if the competition between the firms is so intense that Firm II's choice of action is solely motivated by the desire to minimise the profits made by Firm I. This supposition is obviously too extreme to be realistic , but its relaxation involves further problems into which we shall not enter here . |
| 17 | Liverpool 's dockland is much too complex to be described in detail in a work of this kind , and is in any case largely inaccessible to the general public , but Albert Dock , which you can visit , is of particular interest and importance . |
| 18 | If the patient 's fever took several days to appear then it is much less likely to be Belladonna no matter how much the rest of the picture looks like it . |
| 19 | What is much less likely to be recognized is the importance of considering the interrelationship between these various initiatives , and certainly there is no sign as yet that such an evaluation is to take place . |
| 20 | This is much less likely to be a problem in numerical work , which is therefore particularly important for studies of regimes inaccessible in the laboratory ( e.g. convection in conditions where non-Boussinesq effects — see the Appendix to Chapter 14 — are significant , perhaps in connection with an application such as solar granulation , Section 26.6 ) . |
| 21 | Giving up smoking together too is much more likely to be successful than if you have to struggle alone . |
| 22 | That next-door neighbour dabbler you are so concerned about is much more likely to be involved in the ‘ soft-occult ’ , and may still be open to a little reasoning . |
| 23 | Or , as is much more likely to be the truth of the matter , evidence of the parents ' fear that they might be depriving the child of some advantage if the ritual is omitted . |
| 24 | Nowadays the public attitude is much more likely to be : I must be in the house at 10.30 to watch Sports Report or whatever . |
| 25 | Competition in a market with few suppliers , none of them controlling the market but each relatively large ( oligopoly ) is much more likely to be distorted if one of those suppliers takes over or acquires an interest in another , than in a market characterised by fierce competition among many suppliers . |
| 26 | The eldest daughter , even if she is not the eldest child , is much more likely to be asked by her mother to help in the care of younger children than is an eldest son . |
| 27 | A school which is seen to be supporting its clients is much more likely to be supported in turn , by the community it is there to serve . |
| 28 | Of course often they also fall into the first two categories mentioned , but it seems that household membership operates separately in relation to giving assistance , so that a particular child who shares a home with their parent is much more likely to be giving personal care than their siblings . |
| 29 | For example in the case of people of Asian origin living in Britain , the expectation is much more likely to be that the main supportive bond , especially in respect of financial support , will be between sons and parents . |
| 30 | Since paid work still is much more likely to be distributed this way than the reverse , there is a built-in tendency for caring responsibilities to fall on women , even without cultural expectations that women are particularly suited to these tasks . |