Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also evidence that many who have the financial means to be mobile are actually committing themselves to post-retirement migration . |
| 2 | Restitution questions over property nationalised by the State following the communist putsch of 1948 are also damaging relations between galleries and the public . |
| 3 | The Spanish are now promoting the use of the caper berry , the fruit that is produced after the plant has flowered , as a garnish for both food and drinks . |
| 4 | The retired are also important to the economy as suppliers of a wide variety of services and other forms of labour . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , ‘ those areas where pressure to build is greatest are precisely those where pressure not to build is also greatest ’ ; but , ending on an optimistic note . |
| 6 | By July 1988 , when the House of Commons Energy Committee came to reassess the figures , it concluded that ‘ many of the critical assumptions that underlay the Inquiry Inspector 's view that Sizewell B will be economic are no longer tenable ’ . |
| 7 | Versions of Hewlett-Packard Co 's Snake workstations based upon its latest PA 7100 are now due early November ( UX No 397 ) , reliable sources say . |
| 8 | The systems for recovering monies due are broadly similar in England and Wales and in Scotland . |
| 9 | ‘ Record companies and things like that are not my main concern . |
| 10 | There may be other achievements that you are proud of that are not listed here . |
| 11 | so no determination has been made about as yet and therefore upon that are not included in these calculations . |
| 12 | Things like that are not constructive at all , I mean I know you must get to the stage with some members of staff where you think oh , what else can I do , but |
| 13 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 15 | I think Sussex has got to find a new , new hat , and got to express itself and demonstrate that it is in no sense relying on twenty five years of erm of erm fairly high reputation that the next twenty five years and the next twenty five years after that are just as challenging , perhaps even more so . |
| 16 | So you tell my that are frightfully posh drive , he comes in backwards oh who 's that ? |
| 17 | They do n't they 're in like that are n't they straight in front of you . |
| 18 | and you 're actually partly doing that are n't you ? |
| 19 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 20 | Jews are like that are n't they ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 22 | N S A are the big boys in that are n't they ? |
| 23 | And they do n't know , so you 're happy with that are n't you , |
| 24 | Erm subterfuge and you know deceiving people , and pretending if you have n't got any nuclear arsenal when you have and and that kind of thing , you know , you will hear playing games like that are n't they , hiding up the truth . |
| 25 | we 're like that are n't we ? |
| 26 | he 's like that are n't you dear , always has to come and have a stir and there 's licks in the , look in the pan |
| 27 | There are lots of games on that are n't there ? |
| 28 | You 're good at doing that are n't you ? |
| 29 | Getting on with that are n't they ? |
| 30 | Yes , very good , and you 're sure you have n't put a three on that are n't you ? |