Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Index followed a year later , originally launched inside the stores , but eventually intended to be fully independent . |
| 2 | Inflation for the month of December was officially stated as 40.1 per cent but was unofficially recognized to be much higher . |
| 3 | One would , for example , assume right turns to be objectively more dangerous than left turns . |
| 4 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 5 | The use of reading lists , tapes , slides , video-recordings etc. needs to be carefully planned , because they form a major resource . |
| 6 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 7 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 8 | During his eight years as Premier Cain 's government , widely considered to be relatively free from financial corruption , had prohibited nuclear warships , decriminalized brothels , enacted freedom of information legislation , reformed licensing laws and increased expenditure on education . |
| 9 | He can be a ‘ character ’ , a source of quaint rustic humour or homespun rural philosophy on such matters as the seasons and the weather , but he is rarely expected to be either forward-thinking or ‘ forward ’ in his demeanour . |
| 10 | Always leave details of where you can be contacted — even if you only intend to be away from your usual number for a few hours — and provide your child 's full name , date and place of birth , and your GPs name , address and telephone number . |
| 11 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 12 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
| 13 | It was an unhealthy enough place to be even at the best of times , swampy and malaria-ridden ; any Europeans trading there would have been only too aware of the risks involved , and the depleted crew of the Orynthia , overworked and probably ill-fed , must have been as vulnerable as they could possibly be . |
| 14 | er one that occurs to me , no , no speaking on it myself , the jury might be interested , sometime I just like to get a feel of what a brochure looks like , not divided as it obviously has to be here , could , could we see a couple sometime , not , not now |
| 15 | Now his view obviously has to be seriously considered put forward , as it is , by a leader who has the support , when he was elected , of ninety percent of the Party , including ninety percent of the unions . |
| 16 | ‘ James , I wo n't tell you again — this is not our country , we are merely permitted to be here by its citizens . |
| 17 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 18 | ‘ The forest plantation is quite young and the ditch was ploughed in 1987 , so the body has obviously come to be there after that . ’ |
| 19 | Potential carers will naturally expect to be thoroughly vetted and would be required to undertake an eight-week training course before being entrusted with the care of a child , which could take anything up to six months . |
| 20 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 21 | One aim of the network would be to hasten the entry of new research into clinical practice — a process that most researchers have long felt to be much too slow . |
| 22 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 23 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 24 | I 'm only going to be away for a few days . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm only going to be away for forty-eight hours … ’ |
| 26 | Then she added , ‘ Well , I 'm only going to be here for three weeks . ’ |
| 27 | Yet as Andrew Palmer , deputy finance director at Legal & General Investments warned at the same conference , ‘ like all chains , Taurus is only going to be as strong as its weakest link . |
| 28 | He 'd decided that if Pilger was only going to be there one day a week he could share an office with Hayling . |
| 29 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 30 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |