Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and [adv] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 2 | About 20% of care is consistently shown to be inappropriate and only about 15% of medical interventions are based on solid scientific evidence . |
| 3 | I talked to you and you were grand , and you said Mother would be grand and then suddenly Sean manages to spoil everything . ’ |
| 4 | When the arm spines are cleaned in bleach the smaller ones are seen to be thin and only slightly rugose with the area of attachment reinforced while the larger spine has an almost smooth shaft with a multipointed head . |
| 5 | The corgi must have a regal air , be docile and reasonably well behaved.The fee for the show … as many dog biscuits as they can eat ! |
| 6 | The traditional system suppliers such as VBS with their Beacon system and Genigraphics were few and far between while Matrix , now part of Agfa , was the dominant supplier of medium-priced film recorders . |
| 7 | Speyside was an area where the units were large and almost exclusively family farms . |
| 8 | Two East Antrim players were sin-binned and not surprisingly Antrim got their second goal in the 69th minute through Allister Reilly to grab the vital points . |
| 9 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 10 | The voice is dead and not only cricket-lovers will suffer the hush . |