Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 2 | It is easy to become complacent and just feel that most of the words are probably right even when they are n't . |
| 3 | The non-celibate parish clergy were little better off than their peasant flock , but in the early sixteenth century over 25 per cent of all cultivated land was in clerical hands . |
| 4 | Candidates for the degree of MLitt ( Faculty of Arts ) or MPhil ( other Faculties ) by thesis pursue a research project under broadly the same conditions as those applying to PhD candidates , except that the minimum period of study is usually not less than 24 months full-time or 36 months part-time . |
| 5 | But if the idea of this procedure is simple , the practice is much less so because of the problems involved . |
| 6 | The small group turnover is now not more than £2.8m net ( or £3.36m gross ) and not more than £1.4m net ( or £1.68m gross ) for the balance sheet total . |
| 7 | The medium group turnover is now not more than £11.2m net ( or £3.44m gross ) and not more than £5.6m net ( or £6.72m gross ) for the balance sheet total . |
| 8 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 9 | Farm animals which are kept in bare pens are generally worse off than farm animals which are kept in pens with straw , both because straw can be used as bedding and because straw is a material which the animal can manipulate . |
| 10 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 11 | On the eve of American entry into the Second World War , all the social statistic used to measure people 's well-being showed that blacks were far worse off than whites in the United States . |
| 12 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 13 | Owning your own home means that home is no longer simply where the heart is — it is also a major financial investment . |
| 14 | The key question is now no longer whether stress accelerates ageing — there is a growing medical consensus that it can do so and often dramatically — but how best to prevent it . |
| 15 | As can be seen from the sample tasks above , identifying the place value of a column was generally rather easier than giving the place value of a particular digit . |
| 16 | At a United Nations sponsored meeting in Amsterdam in 1989 the international community agreed that industrialised countries should allocate 4% of overall foreign aid to population programmes , but in 1991 the average amount given for population assistance was only slightly more than 1% . |
| 17 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 18 | Using a number of different measures of inequality ( quintile income distribution , median income levels and a ‘ poverty line ’ of 140 per cent of supplementary benefit ) , Evandron ( 1990 ) found that carers were consistently worse off than non-carers . |
| 19 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 20 | ‘ Too bloody true ! ’ he snarled , but cooled down marginally , though that dangerous glint was still around somewhere when he added , ‘ But since you 've just said you 've no intention of marrying my cousin — this is what you 're going to do . ’ |
| 21 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 22 | The factories on the east bank of the Medway were even worse off as they had no direct railway outlet and also a poor road system . |
| 23 | Their favourite was the great Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367 , and had the Great Casterton villa been dug in the nineteenth century , this would certainly have been considered a victim whereas , of course , the pottery is certainly not earlier than AD 375 , and maybe much later . |
| 24 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 25 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 26 | Set-faced though he was , Victor was certainly not more than twenty-five , and Elizabeth probably younger , while Ernest was still in his mid-teens . |
| 27 | Nationalization was dead as far as I was concerned , we were back in the rat race . |
| 28 | Modern tackle has given today 's anglers a great advantage and simple things such as float control are now much easier than they must have been in the silk line and gut era . |
| 29 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 30 | Many wage earners were indeed better off than ever before , and after 1922 the economy was free from inflation . |