Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few Tit for Tat individuals do n't meet each other often enough to be of mutual benefit . |
| 2 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 3 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 4 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 5 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 6 | These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings . |
| 7 | I mean , Helen Burn 's plea here is not to be to eager for retribution to come in this life , but trust to it erm |
| 8 | ‘ In the end it was not to be for Donal but hopefully one day they will find a cure . ’ |
| 9 | The overlap between tort and contract should be looked for particularly in problems involving the negligent carriage of passengers by rail , road or sea , and the sale ( or repair ) of goods or houses that turn out not to be of merchantable quality or reasonably fit and that cause physical injury to the buyer ( or owner ) . |
| 10 | An obvious possibility was forsc = frog , but the combination with ‘ enclosure ’ appeared not to be over logical . |
| 11 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's all wrong , ’ said the woman , ‘ they ought not to be in white homes . |
| 13 | Elaine gets a lot more help than many disabled people , and some would say she is lucky not to be in residential care . |
| 14 | Jan. 1587 , lie bound to good behaviour Elizabeth Watson of Halling 20 shillings and William Symons 10 shillings , also Henry Bray , Yeoman 10 shillings , all of Halling to appear at the next quarter sessions at Maidstone and in the meanwhile to be of good behaviour . |
| 15 | Even if Kirov was still listening out for radio contact , he was unlikely still to be in direct touch with the pilot . |
| 16 | The aim is to contribute to anthropological understanding of the incest taboo and also to be of practical use to the therapeutic team . |
| 17 | In the event this 10.30 am five-minute slot , launched last week by ITV , turned out to be beyond neat description . |
| 18 | The temple ritual turned out to be of passing significance to Judaism . |
| 19 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |
| 20 | Many of the boundaries surrounding the village earthworks have been sectioned , and surprisingly some have turned out to be of prehistoric and Roman date . |
| 21 | Like the absence of dilation in the pupils following a head injury , this apparently small , perhaps even seemingly trivial , symptom turns out to be of crucial importance . |
| 22 | If it does turn out to be of general significance at a variety of scales it will imply that the increased environmental stress associated in some way with regressions promotes an increase in extinction rate and corresponding vacation of ecological niches , with a consequent opportunity for new species to establish themselves . |
| 23 | They may turn out to be Of equal value to those who do . |
| 24 | That will turn out to be of huge significance for the action of chapter 4 . |
| 25 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 26 | Muriel was favoured by all three partners , but the comments of her present employer turned out to be of particular importance . |
| 27 | These anomalous properties of water may turn out to be of considerable importance in the preparation of homoeopathic remedies . |
| 28 | And it certainly turned out to be of considerable scientific interest . |
| 29 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 30 | Patients readmitted to hospital with gastrointestinal bleeding shown endoscopically to be from oesophageal varices were classified as having failed surgical therapy . |