Example sentences of "be extremely [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 2 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 3 | ‘ I know , however , that you will go from strength to strength with your new Chairman and I am confident that you will be extremely successful . |
| 4 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 5 | ‘ If we do receive information on victims among people we will of course be extremely sorry for them , ’ said the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman , Mr Vadim Perfiliev . |
| 6 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 7 | I shall be extremely sorry to see it leave . |
| 8 | ‘ Listen , ’ she snapped , ‘ if I have to come down there and tell you what to do with the handbrake , you 'll all be extremely sorry , all right ? |
| 9 | But if these were all roles he played , they were necessary ones ; they protected a man who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people . |
| 10 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 11 | It proved to be extremely accurate and was able to detect 93 per cent of infected files in my virus library , which is a very good result . |
| 12 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 13 | British investigative writer Anthony Summers says : ‘ I think we have to be extremely cautious . |
| 14 | Most will be extremely cautious until new case law defines the extent of the new Act . |
| 15 | Spiders , too , must be extremely cautious in their courtship . |
| 16 | One has to be extremely cautious about interpreting past usage of terms like " women " , " girls " , " ladies " and " females " , but it certainly seems to be the case that " females " and " girls " — precisely the terms with either derogatory or patronizing over-tones — are used more frequently than " women " , while " ladies " is generally used if the speaker wishes either to be polite or ironic . |
| 17 | Dissonance is most powerful in a generally consonant context — hence the need to be extremely cautious in its use . |
| 18 | They used to be extremely good value ; now they are eminently ignorable . |
| 19 | From such a position , deviant behaviour could be extremely good or heroic behaviour , such as risking one 's life to help others or showing courage over and above the line of duty . |
| 20 | In general the condition of the work was found to be extremely good . |
| 21 | Erm again , you say that you 're going round to all the schools and what have you , and again , this can only be extremely good because , after all , this is where |
| 22 | Although memory that an arousing slide has been presented is generally likely to be extremely good , there is evidence that the types of details remembered about such a slide may be different from those remembered from more mundane slides . |
| 23 | ‘ It turned out to be extremely good for me because within twenty-four hours of leaving I was asked to go to Hollywood and prepare Scrooge for Paramount Pictures . |
| 24 | But I would be extremely chary of asking the newer ‘ red ’ and ‘ yellow ’ forms to live in alkaline or even neutral water . |
| 25 | They will be extremely unhappy that people in the north and the midlands with similar properties will be allocated to lower bands . |
| 26 | Greatly disturbed by excitement and they can be extremely emotional . |
| 27 | Music can be extremely memorable , and the involvement of all the senses is a well-tried expedient . |
| 28 | This means that corrections must be extremely small at any one time . |
| 29 | Therefore corrections must be extremely small and like the localiser , what you are aiming at is a steady indication of the GP needle , rather than trying to put it dead in the centre . |
| 30 | We stand by our conclusion that the effect of open ocean primary production on the drawdown of anthropogenic CO 2 appears to be extremely small in comparison with other sinks . |