Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minority were badly enough damaged to be at risk of dying . |
| 2 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 3 | Her husband 's smile , which she had long since discovered to be a deceitful thing , wavered on his lips like a breeze over a cornfield , and he was slow to answer . |
| 4 | This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned . |
| 5 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 6 | Trusts however depended on remedies in personam : the intended beneficiary could sue only the trustee , even if the trustee had long since ceased to be in possession of the object under trust . |
| 7 | The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina . |
| 8 | All these developments appeared to confirm Angell 's view that the boundaries of the real communities in Europe had long since ceased to be represented by state frontiers . |
| 9 | After that story was published , the discounting game , which had long since ceased to be a secret in the computer room , was a factor in the boardroom . |
| 10 | Since money had long since ceased to be a matter of concern to Wendell Harvey , he never stinted on spending it . |
| 11 | By this time the Ottoman empire had long since ceased to be a threat to Christian Europe . |
| 12 | On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes . |
| 13 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 14 | If the heir has sold an object under trust , and a person with knowledge [ of the trust ] has bought it , the beneficiary none the less rightly requests to be put in possession of it . |
| 15 | So much remains to be done if we are to achieve true integration in the arts and wider society . |
| 16 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 17 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 18 | I would so much like to be wise , |
| 19 | At the Salon des Indépendants all these artists were grouped together in Salle 45 , together with the work of Morgan Russel and MacDonald Wright , who called themselves ‘ Synchromists ’ and somewhat pretentiously purported to be representatives of a new school which was to be the culmination of all European painting ; they were , in fact , rapidly absorbed into the more vital Orphist movement . |
| 20 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 21 | Net realisable value is the actual or estimated selling price ( net of trade discounts ) less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distribution . |
| 22 | I think there is a tendency erm for local authority planners to have horizons set by the end date of the current plan period , and work , try and work in that , sort of around the real world I think , where nothing happens , or nothing is conceivable , beyond that time period , erm , this particular approach , er does not work in the case of new settlements , there is no need when having established your design size for a new settlement that it necessarily all has to be built within current plan period , and I think this sort of approach is recognized in Cambridgeshire where , in case of the A forty five new settlement , a view was taken at an early stage that a new settlement of three thousand dwellings was needed to meet long term development needs in Cambridgeshire , an area where the planning issues and problems where very similar to those of York , and the approved structure plan in policy proposed that new settlement to be designated as three thousand , of which two thousand portion would be built within the current plan period , so it seems to me that the the question of size need not be an impediment to erm designation of a new settlement if the existing requirement and need are adjudged not to require the sort of new settlement size that we are creating . |
| 23 | Those who live alone perhaps need to be especially secure from harm coming and going from their home . |
| 24 | [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . |
| 25 | ‘ I know , ’ Flavia went on , ‘ that people do n't like a divorce in their family , but when you think that his has so long ceased to be a real marriage You have n't seen them together , Michel and … |
| 26 | When the truth of the relationship together is faced , the prospect of living alone suddenly ceases to be unbearable . |
| 27 | Obviously it was once a depressed area and equally obviously much remains to be done , but things have certainly changed since the advent of the HIDB and WIIC . |
| 28 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 29 | As we togged up and down the Seefeld baby slopes learning how to sno-plough and how to get up when you failed to sno-plough , it became apparent that this was , with or without ganglion , perhaps not going to be Jack 's Number One sport . |
| 30 | A pensioner walking his dog on the other side of the street quickened his pace , obviously not wanting to be there when the men in white coats came for me . |