Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The daughter of a warehouseman , she was 26 years old in 1910 , so had presumably been more than ten years in the trade .
2 Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again .
3 Well , not necessarily , sometimes I do n't tell them at all or they comment on it and I explain , it 's a , but it 's only been yesterday and today you see really .
4 if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass
5 THE Berlin Wall has long been more than the ugliest symbol of Europe 's division .
6 The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain .
7 The signs had all been there if only she 'd had the gumption to read them .
8 They had all been there when Moran read out the telegram .
9 The same for rehearsals — I think we 've all been there and discovered the dos and don'ts , and they 're pretty obvious anyway .
10 The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development .
11 That had all been more than two years before .
12 This had obviously been there since manufacture and had caused the blockages I had blamed on sand .
13 Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there .
14 Outer and Inner Mongolia together are more than 13 times the size of mainland Britain .
15 The propeller blades alone are more than twice Barbel 's height .
16 But if it is desirable to assign a property to an entity , then that will far more frequently , although not invariably , be needed precisely when the property is not an inherent quality of the entity in question ; further , this will especially be so when the property is tied to some particular event — hence the high incidence of present and past participles among postnominals .
17 ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door .
18 A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day .
19 And the vision held out was of a Russia transformed from grinding poverty , ignorance , and rural backwardness into a society that would not only be just and free but modern , dynamic , industrial .
20 Pure logic is only a small part of the thinking we habitually do , and can only be so because it is only appropriate for certain limited activities .
21 That will only be so if the unbelieving partner is to leave , because at that point the values and foundations of the marriage are shown to be violated and at odds .
22 They could only be so if the seller had stolen the goods .
23 In particular , what hours would be applicable to children and should they only be there if they are eating a meal or snack ?
24 Sales figures around Christmas and New Year are very prone to changes in seasonal patterns , and total sales in the last three months together were less than 0.25 per cent higher than in the previous three months and only 1.4 per cent higher than in the corresponding three months a year ago .
25 And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire .
26 But the ambivalence that some studies have shown must call into question the relative importance of the history of family attitudes to bedwetting as perhaps being equally or more important than any postulated physical reasons .
27 If the current trend continues , the landowners to whom the bothies belong , could decide that enough is enough and withdraw their permission for usage .
28 But it will probably be around the time of the Full Moon on the 14th that you decide enough is enough and when you realise that success , solace or excitement can only be found in a different setting .
29 This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw .
30 Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality .
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