Example sentences of "[prep] be extremely " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women . |
| 2 | This conformed to the usual character of émigré groups in being extremely quarrelsome and factionalised . |
| 3 | Therefore , are we not wise in being extremely cautious before we hand over our money supply to a third party ? |
| 4 | The information Paul provided turned out to be extremely useful . |
| 5 | He seemed to her to be extremely ancient ( he was 35 ) . |
| 6 | I think you have to be extremely clear-minded and unemotional about what your objectives are and if it is a public company you must remember the paramount importance of the owners of the business — the shareholders . |
| 7 | Not only is colostrum known to be extremely nutritious but it too has special protective properties against illness . |
| 8 | Because the stone-built , partly render-clad building proved to be extremely sound , little alteration to the exterior or renewal of materials was necessary . |
| 9 | The list is longer , but what I am getting at is that it is going to be extremely expensive to cut down this pollution . |
| 10 | They used to be extremely good value ; now they are eminently ignorable . |
| 11 | His question was meant to be extremely scathing . |
| 12 | Plausible cases are likely to be extremely rare in practice . |
| 13 | Rules and regulations are firmly in place , however , and it is thought to be extremely unlikely that Mrs Marcos would make any serious attempt to return the body . |
| 14 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 15 | Even so , the competition proved to be extremely tight . |
| 16 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 17 | However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction . |
| 18 | Colonisation schemes in many tropical American countries for example , have also proved to be extremely expensive ( e.g. $US6000 per family in Bolivia , Curtis 1979 ) , as is also the case of Indonesian policy of migration from Java to the outer Islands ( see Booth & McCawley 1981 for detailed accounts of the failure of these schemes ) . |
| 19 | If the car is low to the ground , it is likely to be extremely difficult for the patient to get in and out , so you might try using a car in which you can raise and lower the suspension . |
| 20 | Bowling at Dundonald International Ice Bowl has proved to be extremely popular . |
| 21 | The statement also recognised that , in terms of accuracy , integrity , consistency and up-to-date status , the quality of the index would need to be extremely high . |
| 22 | The exercise proved to be extremely complex and time-consuming because of the sheer volume of material involved ( ie in excess of 60,000 files ) , and the variety of different reference systems used . |
| 23 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 24 | Cancer incidence : We consider the contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ to be extremely poor . |
| 25 | However , past experience at other rubbish-burning plants , such as the Greater London Council 's incinerator at Edmonton in North London , suggests that the Corby version will need to be extremely efficient to make a profit . |
| 26 | However , that part of evolution which to modern man appears to be extremely cruel , must not be condemned and relegated to the depository of ‘ evil ’ for evil has no meaning in respect of evolutionary processes . |
| 27 | There are escape routes for those , too , and if injured rabbits do get back into the system they are likely to be extremely difficult to capture . |
| 28 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 29 | I personally would n't regard having to contact Germany for spares as the end of the world , and have always found Warwick to be extremely helpful in such circumstances . |
| 30 | We 've got three percussionists , some backing vocals , a lead vocal , bass guitar , two lead guitars , and we tend to be extremely threatening to the audience . |