Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Community seemed to be their only option , the Greeks thought they had better be thoroughly Community-minded . |
| 2 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 3 | Karelius said , ‘ The good news had better be damned good . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 5 | He was puzzled , and she knew she had better be very careful about giving lectures on health to the customers . |
| 6 | A market three times the size of all the liberalising economies of Eastern Europe combined would suddenly be wide open . |
| 7 | There cold be very great inequalities between individuals when measured over a whole life . |
| 8 | Here in Hertfordshire we have a fire and rescue service , that we can quite rightly be as proud of as the fire fighters we surveyed are . |
| 9 | But the needs of a UK-based company trading with customers and suppliers in the EC , will naturally be vastly different from those of a multinational organisation with operating divisions in a number of countries . |
| 10 | Artists ' writing on art can naturally be more practical or technical , even in defining their own aims . |
| 11 | However , some flights will naturally be more likely to be accessed than others . |
| 12 | If you fail to arrange pupillage you will naturally be very disappointed , but should not feel aggrieved . |
| 13 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 14 | If that does n't make you feel humble you must naturally be so humble that the hell with you anyway . |
| 15 | The investigation of this issue is quite problematic since it would obviously be rather awkward for a sociologist to hang around lots of families with a stop-watch ! |
| 16 | The basic success of the policy however has tended to draw into its influence many who initially chose not to participate , since it would obviously be professionally unsound to be seen to be consciously not taking part . |
| 17 | For example , assessment by a health visitor of a mother 's knowledge about maintaining a safe environment for her young child in the home would obviously be quite different from an occupational health nurse 's assessment of an employee 's risk of accident at work . |
| 18 | The diet following infarction will obviously be quite light . |
| 19 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 20 | I would obviously be very grateful for any sponsorship which my colleagues in the bank can offer . |
| 21 | Any bacterium that could tap a different source of food would obviously be very successful and eventually some did . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd obviously be very disappointed not to beat Blueharts , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Anyway , whatever the ideas that inspired the advocates of the prison , it would obviously be very dangerous to assume that their ideas were automatically embodied in the actual operation of the prison system when it came into being . |
| 24 | Talking to children who are themselves dying can obviously be very difficult . |
| 25 | But I mean that would obviously be very difficult |
| 26 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 27 | Moreover I can address myself retrospectively to the perceptual experience as such as well as to the photograph qua photograph , and the logic of my reports will obviously be very different in the two cases . |
| 28 | ‘ This would obviously be very bad news for the UK — not only in terms of our leverage , but also in terms of the attraction of the UK as a sound investment plank . |
| 29 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 30 | It would obviously be too insensitive to say something in front of the girl . |