Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most that can be said is that the majority of individuals said to be non-right handed still show left hemisphere language representation ( Annett , Hudson , and Turner , 1974 ; Fleminger and Bunce , 1975 ; Clyma , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | I am sorry it took place but I promise you it would be wisest to go home and forget it . ’ |
| 3 | It would be awful to sit around in pitch black . |
| 4 | It would be awful to get up next morning and find she had drifted down the canal . |
| 5 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 6 | When the index is computerised it will be practicable to increase greatly the number of names on the index . |
| 7 | It may not always be practicable to follow exactly the recommendations as written in the accident report , but that is not an acceptable reason for merely discarding them . |
| 8 | it would be hypocritical to object really . |
| 9 | Still , it would be easy enough to find out what the police had done about it , and it would be tidier to do so . |
| 10 | He had enjoyed the workmen 's company but he would also be grateful to get away from the noise of the machines , especially the incessant throbbing of the jackhammers . |
| 11 | These can be used to ward off chills ; for rheumatic or arthritic pain , excessive perspiration , athlete 's foot and other skin disorders of the feet or hands such as dermatitis or eczema . |
| 12 | State companies , accustomed to cosy relations with government , will be loth to offer up their own 10% of flesh . |
| 13 | Gentleman , this is to quaint you all of you cor Serning the Billing of this workhous think to starve the poore theare Stephen Wite Stratford Lews of Barfield Wile of TataSon Loyd hintlesham but let them tak care of thin Selves for farit that is hap on shall there Brains be Blown out and that as sure as death and fail not and the hous shall not be bilt a toyle for theare shall be 500 planted soon and will di all it and pull Wiles hous down . |
| 14 | Brandy , meat and bread and cheese were distributed and he rode round the encampment raising his hat in response to the men 's cheers and delivering an admirably concise address : ‘ My brave boys , we have one march more and then all our labour is at an end ; sit down at your tent doors and be alert to take up your arms . ’ |
| 15 | Most visitors , however , will come to Palazzo Grassi to see a marvellous display of drawings by Leonardo , and they will be right to do so . |
| 16 | The first is that since the person against whom the powers are being improperly exercised is entitled to resist such use , he is in principle entitled to know sufficient to enable him to make a judgment about whether it would be right to do so . |
| 17 | I do n't think it would be right to do so . |
| 18 | Continuing that theme , would it not be right to say though that Plato only gave to come back into human form to those people such as philosophers and that most other people would come back as some other form . |
| 19 | Now , er when I say do you really want your jobs back , I was just thinking , I was thinking really would the atmosphere be right to go back , would you ever be happy working there again ? |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be right to set up a retraining scheme for soon-to-be-redundant members of the shadow Cabinet ? |
| 21 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that , given the higher participation rate in Scotland and the importance of the four-year degree there , it would be right to allocate proportionately more resources to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council ? |
| 22 | I therefore worked on the premise that if , if a fifth of our work comes from then it must be right to have approximately a fifth of our staff based in |
| 23 | He feels that in the circumstances it would not be right to have too much fun . |
| 24 | Accordingly it would not be right to strike out the third party notice on the ground that the claim to contribution is doomed to failure . |
| 25 | So Mr it would perhaps be right to think then that you 're looking for cover for the firearms unit ? |
| 26 | This conviction may be enviable , but not everyone is able to match it , and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise . |
| 27 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 28 | Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ? |
| 29 | It would be rash to conclude too much from this , but it does indicate that while the index has been compiled carefully and thoroughly , the cross-referencing could be slightly inproved . |
| 30 | In the meantime , I believe that it would be rash to read too much into the opinion by taking it out of its narrow context . |