Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't mean you 've got to , should , does n't mean you 've got to have a loud voice , it just means you 've got to speak , speak clearly and slowly enough to be clear . |
| 2 | There was altogether less to be frightened of . |
| 3 | I particularly like the way the teacher 's emphasising that it 's sometimes all right to be rude to adults . |
| 4 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |
| 5 | In both countries , a significant fraction is of ‘ unknown ’ origin or ‘ background ’ , in the air long enough to be difficult to assign to any one source . |
| 6 | I positioned myself in the entrance to the doorway sufficiently enough to be able to see through the er the window we have in the shield erm to see quickly into the room to see er what 's in the room and if there are any persons in the room . |
| 7 | These single parents care about being mothers but they do n't care so much about being married and they care even less for being rendered dependent . |
| 8 | The checks of his three-piece suit were large and loud enough to be migraine-inducing , and the tie , although defiantly striped , was not one she recognised . |
| 9 | You could see city below and you could hear anything big , but you were just far enough away to be able to sleep safely . |
| 10 | He wants so desperately to be vital , but he is being terribly dishonest with himself . |
| 11 | She received him alone , a privilege granted to her because they were so soon to be married . |
| 12 | But adaptation was considered only ever to be superficial . |
| 13 | Although they had been unable so far to be sure whether or not either neutrons or gamma rays were being emitted from the cell , if fusion was indeed occurring then there should be evidence within the cathode — helium or tritium should be present , though in very small quantities . |
| 14 | Alcuin was so far from being certain of this standing with Coenwulf that he asked a Mercian patrician — probably the senior Mercian ealdorman Brorda — to greet the king peaceably ‘ if it is possible to do so ’ . |
| 15 | But it is pointless and unhistorical to condemn the absence of " democracy " in the recruitment of diplomats when Europe in general was still so far from being democratic . |
| 16 | All these reforms may be necessary , but alas , so far from being sufficient that a reassessment of future conservation needs to be made . |
| 17 | I am not suggesting that it is proven that our motives , reasons and purposes are not themselves reducible to mechanically operating causal factors , as a fully determinist model would have it ; but if that is the case , we are so far from being able to specify these factors that they do not offer a model we can actually work with — as we saw in the discussion of positivist criminology in Chapter 2 . |
| 18 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 19 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 20 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 21 | For all she knew , so far from being lonely and deprived at this moment , he might well be taking his mild pleasures in his usual fashion , with some lady chanced upon by pure luck in the wilds of Anatolia . |
| 22 | Therefore , all that is necessary for a species to acquire a culture is that its members should be capable of learning and memory , and meet other members of their own species sufficiently often to be able to learn things from them . |
| 23 | I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane . |
| 24 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 25 | It was found that end-users were able to master the basic commands of the interface sufficiently well to be able to retrieve references on search topics within their fields of interest . |
| 26 | It is therefore a problem for the homoeopathic practitioner to learn these pictures , many of which are somewhat similar , sufficiently well to be able to match accurately each patient with the correct remedy . |
| 27 | Mind you , I 've erm far enough forward to be able to get |
| 28 | So instead of being relaxed and content , he was tenser and less tolerant than ever . |
| 29 | So instead of being outraged , one is left with a resigned smirk . |
| 30 | At any rate he took it sufficiently seriously to be anxious to resign and retreat to Worcestershire immediately , without waiting to see what forces might crystallize around him , and to make tentative plans for spending the winter abroad . |