Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But a polished round of jumping on his reappearance at Wincanton last month showed Country Member to be much more the finished article than he was as a novice last term . |
| 2 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |
| 3 | I shall go even further : my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles . |
| 4 | Consequently , it is forecast that in 1992 our inflation rate will be below even the German average , which at the moment is 3.5 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone who 's prepared to use a child as a pawn just to score points in some personal vendetta has to be just about the lowest form of life . |
| 6 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England , tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest 's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north . |
| 7 | If one is to recognize that there are applied linguists and language teachers in the world identifiable by the difference of role they play ( even though these roles may exist in different degrees of convergence ) then the division of responsibility which corresponds with appraisal and application seems to be just about the only one to make . |
| 8 | In the last quarter of the 20th century , the USSR may be just about the only country in the world where health standards are actually falling . |
| 9 | dad start for Bears Speedway Exeter Falcons 54 Middlesbrough Bears 36 BORO battled hard enough but this proved to be just about the worst venue on which to open their League programme . |
| 10 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 11 | I happened to be just about the oldest one of the team of them really . |
| 12 | Organizations like this are not good at remembering the things you have done well and if , as most of us are , you are at the bottom of the pile , you will find that you are considered to be alternately either the best thing since sliced bread , or a liability to the organization . |
| 13 | In some cases duplicates may not be bibliographically exactly the same . |
| 14 | should be here today the old |
| 15 | ‘ The dividing line , ’ writes Ann Dummett in British Nationality Law , a Briefing paper on the Government 's Green Paper , ‘ between the two is to be almost exactly the same as the line which under the 1971 Immigration Act separates UK and colonies citizens with a right of entry to the UK ( patrials ) from those citizens who are subject to immigration control ( non-patrials ) . ’ |
| 16 | Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) . |
| 17 | ( Your list of five should be pretty much the same apart from how the problems are expressed . ) |
| 18 | Whichever is it , even if I 'm writing an article on the Queen Mother 's blood or the colour of Michael Jackson 's feet , I bet the first sentence will be pretty much the same . |
| 19 | In that case , the Dip.HE for such students will continue to be very largely the first two years of a degree course , though its provision may increase if credit transfer develops nationally and it becomes more common for students to undertake a two-year Dip.HE course in one institution and move to another for a third year . |
| 20 | This practice seems to be very much the same no matter whether the personal orientation of the research worker is materialist or idealist , Marxist or anti-Marxist , structuralist or functionalist , rationalist or empiricist . |
| 21 | Latterly it has become increasingly apparent that neighbouring small-scale communities , even when they are lumped together under the same " tribal " label , are just as likely to be sharply contrasted as they are to be very much the same . |
| 22 | Colleges should be doing to meet the needs of Roman Catholic schools , notwithstanding the harsh economic regime they share with the rest of higher education , it seems fair to conclude that without them the Roman Catholic educational sector would be very much the poorer . |
| 23 | A particular difference between murine class II-expressing macrophages and interdigitating dendritic cells seems to be that only the second subset is capable of triggering resting T cells , whereas the first needs primed T cells to induce immune responses . |