Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dad says there are really good routes worth doing that are only V.Diff and that 's all he ever wants to take me up , but I just do n't want to know . |
| 2 | The most outstanding are possibly Monotones , Gloria and Afternoon of a Faun . |
| 3 | Verses 10–11 are not part of the original story ; they record a saying used by the early Church to indicate the resurrection . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the creatures we generally think are alive are not clays ; they are dogs and humans and trees and mosses . |
| 5 | Ships like this are not things of a dim past , there were first-class passenger sailing ships on the Australian run within living memory * and there are Admirals alive who first went to sea in wooden sailing ships . |
| 6 | 8.4.1 Are there precedents available ? |
| 7 | The English are just heathens , are n't they Victorine ? |
| 8 | We 've got some beiges as well that a few are quite sort of close to white . |
| 9 | Some are just housewives , and there 's at least one who I know does n't need the money . ’ |
| 10 | The risk factors are mean values although some are clearly age- or sex-dependent : for example , the risk for the development of breast cancer is 5.0 × 10 -3 SV -1 in females and zero for males . |
| 11 | The rapid development of these centres during the 1980s in different parts of the country has led to different emphases being developed in practice ( some are mainly advice centres , other social centres ; others combine these roles with elements of campaigning work ) . |
| 12 | Out of 267 possible matches there are 215 identities , 21 substitutions are conservative and 30 are not conservatives . |
| 13 | Thus the two columns of section 2 are not opposites in the way that the two columns of section 1 appear to be . |
| 14 | The 16″ and 19″ colour models of the Sparcstation 2 are off 17% at $15,300 — £12,300 — and 11.9% at $16,300 — £13,000 — respectively . |
| 15 | Going grey and growing old are indeed processes rather than activities , irreversible and permanent . |
| 16 | Give my respect and thanks to the author , whose novel is the first English one and the French are only romances now , that I have been able to read for many a day . |
| 17 | Revenues from this were up 77% to £37.2m , while pre-tax profits grew 92% to £7.8 . |
| 18 | as if all this were n't reason enough , there 's always the environment . |
| 19 | The 415 were overwhelmingly clerics , professionals and intellectuals . |
| 20 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 21 | Costs in the accounts relating to Scheme 2 were not material . |
| 22 | Almost one-fifth of the assessments in Yardley , a poor parish , were of £5 — £9 , the highest only £11 , yet though nearly half were under 40s. , only one man in seven was taxed on wages . |
| 23 | What the case does not make clear is how ISS made its profit , although it seems that Philips retained some control over the prices charged by ISS ( see point 14 of the judgement ) . |
| 24 | This is fast ground |
| 25 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 26 | This is both noun and adjective . |
| 27 | This is partly thanks to the free insurance provided by one of the World Cup sponsors and partly historical perspective . |
| 28 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 29 | This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale . |
| 30 | This is when Sardinia has its most persistent winds . |