Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 2 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 3 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Sheep dipping in the UK is no longer to be compulsory , in the light of evidence that the organophosphorous pesticides used in the annual dip may be a health hazard . |
| 5 | While ‘ it is too soon to be sanguine ’ , the board says , it believes the worst is over for its portfolio , and that with the benefit of devaluation for the whole of the second half , earnings for the full year should allow the trust 's record of dividend progress to be maintained . |
| 6 | ‘ While it is too soon to be certain that there will be an appreciable improvement in the UK economy this year , the early signs are encouraging , ’ said the board . |
| 7 | It is too soon to be sure that any such desecration has been avoided , but the excellent scheme by Allies and Morrison which has now been adopted is already on course for completion by the arrival of the Tall Ships in 1992 . |
| 8 | As yet it is too soon to be sure of what happened . |
| 9 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 10 | Alcuin was so far from being certain of this standing with Coenwulf that he asked a Mercian patrician — probably the senior Mercian ealdorman Brorda — to greet the king peaceably ‘ if it is possible to do so ’ . |
| 11 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 12 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 13 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |