Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If its dramatic focus seems different , it is because Carlo Rizzi 's tempi are rather faster than those adopted by Clive Timms ; the action progresses less with inexorability than by abrupt shifts of mood . |
| 2 | Well I think he 's been on before and he 's quite a decent chap , I think . |
| 3 | Well , she 's been dead longer than that , has n't she ? ’ |
| 4 | She 's been dead longer than Louisa , but … ’ |
| 5 | He 's been dead more than thirty years , and no one sees his plays now . |
| 6 | Hot-wire anemometers have been most widely and successfully used in gas flows . |
| 7 | The literal approach to construction has been most consistently and in our view , most erroneously applied in a line of cases concerning general medical practitioners . |
| 8 | Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before , associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted . |
| 9 | Basalts , because of their low viscosity , tend to form low , thin flows which spread out over large areas , and are rarely more than thirty metres thick . |
| 10 | There are rarely more than two in a grave , the largest number from a single grave being the 17 examples from grave 1 at Breach Down ( Kent ) . |
| 11 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 12 | HIS WEATHER forecast had been right even if his poll prediction remained unconfirmed . |
| 13 | Most counties have a population in excess of 400,000 but the Isle of Wight and Powys in mid-Wales are little more than 100,000 . |
| 14 | They are most closely and evenly spaced along the road from Cologne to Bavai , indicating the hand of the provincial administration ; more may yet be found on other roads . |
| 15 | It is interesting that such distinctions are most clearly and most confidently made in relatively complex and highly specialized societies . |
| 16 | ( The consequences of this decentring of the subject are most fully and interestingly developed in the post-structuralist work of Lacan and Derrida . ) |
| 17 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 18 | Another , after describing her loveless relationship with an unsatisfactory husband , is amazed at Jim Dixon 's remark that she would have been better off if she had n't married . |
| 19 | Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure . |
| 20 | I sometimes ( no , often ) feel that you are much more than eighteen months older than me . |
| 21 | They are much more than just quaint old fashioned words . |
| 22 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been down here since God knows when . |
| 23 | You should have left it there Dominic would eat it , he 'll find it , he 'll say who 's been down here and had a sandwich you have n't had one |
| 24 | This morning they 're different again down there cos I 've been down there and I 've looked at the situation erm and I 've had a word with the lads there and I will try and alter it a little bit more . |
| 25 | she did , oh she was sending money and dad 's been down there and the money ai n't been paid into bank though |
| 26 | But , I mean , she 's been down there and must be gone now something has , but I said surely she would have heard from the police if it 'd been |
| 27 | Do n't worry about the swimming cos we 've been down there and she said yeah , I ca n't stir myself . |
| 28 | Oh no I mean we 've been down there when you put dash like , when you have to wire , er a bolt goes on the dashboard and everything , well Christ I 've been round , we went round er Sunderland works , Nissan , at Sunderland , and we 've been round Rover works |
| 29 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 30 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |