Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those special events are treats that we save up for look forward to are also subject to the ravages of inflation . |
| 2 | ‘ But , given a level playing field , we believe that the work commitments we are agreeing to are as great as can be justified in commercial terms , and hope that this is recognised by Whitehall . ’ |
| 3 | The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed . |
| 4 | In order to be commercially successful it is not sufficient for a product or a process to be technologically innovative , though this will stimulate interest — from the competition as well as the customer . |
| 5 | Organisations will need to be technologically aware . |
| 6 | Is he going to be similarly lenient again with the two players here . |
| 7 | ‘ What do you intend to do this afternoon , Travis ? ’ she asked her younger son , despite her cheerful and pleasant tone , with a trace of anxiety which Leith recognised from having seen her own mother trying to be similarly tactful with Sebastian on occasions . |
| 8 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 9 | One of his main pieces of evidence is the failure of the ‘ announcement ’ effect of the result on the stock exchange to be strongly supportive with the theory . |
| 10 | It was said to be strongly critical of her role in its publication , her relationship with her husband and her role within the Royal Family . |
| 11 | The newspaper reporters , the commercial writers and the popularizers may have great social insight and great interviewing skills , but their work is very likely to be strongly value-laden and biased and they are not working for the development of sociological theory . |
| 12 | The adoption of this approach within certain subjects is based on what Ball calls an academic perspective , where teachers tend to be strongly subject-centred , to view their own subject as setting special intellectual demands because of its allegedly ‘ linear ’ quality , to favour homogeneous ability grouping , and to prefer whole-class teaching methods . |
| 13 | He has found the management problems in each sector to be remarkably similar . |
| 14 | Even so , when the report was actually published in August 1985 , the Commission 's own figures proved to be remarkably similar to those reported from West Germany . |
| 15 | He found the frequency , modulation rate , and the timing of the phrases to be remarkably similar in the two sounds . |
| 16 | However , young children 's ability to develop language is extremely robust , and unless there are additional cognitive or emotional problems , children learn the language of their community even under conditions where exposure to adult input seems to be remarkably impoverished . |
| 17 | A cost of £900,000 , generally recognised to be remarkably low , was made possible by cheap labour , innovatory techniques and a favourable terrain . |
| 18 | We can observe a familiar transition from a relatively general training , in these highly valued skills , to degrees of specialization and professionalization in more complex societies , but some forms of specialization seem to be remarkably early and , on the other hand , there are probably no societies in which relatively general training in forms of these basic skills is not attempted . |
| 19 | Although Macaulay ridiculed Mill 's expectation , it turned out to be remarkably accurate . |
| 20 | The educational history of the surveying profession began around 1881 ; after the granting of the Charter in 1868 , an initial examination structure was developed in 1880 which proved to be remarkably durable and apposite , surviving almost intact until 1932 . |
| 21 | Middle-class moralists might be ardent , even strident , but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent . |
| 22 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 23 | THE Passion Flower ( Passiflora caerulea ) is the most popular of this large family of 500 species , because it has proved to be remarkably hardy in many parts of Britain . |
| 24 | The relationship between the new science and earlier developments in biology also turns out to be remarkably complex . |
| 25 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 26 | Numerically c turned out to be remarkably close to ‘ the velocity of light in air , as determined by M. Fizeau ’ which was ‘ 70 843 leagues per second ’ . |
| 27 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 28 | This solution , which appears to be remarkably simple , will be described in this chapter . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you do seem to be remarkably interested in my love life . ’ |
| 30 | Omar was a devout Muslim and like the best Somalis was proud and fearless , though he proved to be remarkably tactful and forbearing whenever I was impatient or angry , and always upheld my authority even when I made a mistake . |