Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also consider that requests for assistance should come through the Deputy Director Operations as arranged and not be dealt with in a haphazard way between unit commanders who are presumably not in the full operational picture . ’ |
| 2 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
| 3 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 4 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 5 | Numbers of mandibles are high in both samples , but the relative proportions of maxillae are much less in the trampled sample , 24 per cent instead of 64 per cent ( Append . |
| 6 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 7 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 8 | Bob , now retired , commented that his father would have been justly aloft as the focal point of the town , to remind all visitors of the great contribution made by this aircraft type to Canadian history . |
| 9 | Two Rob Roy canoes had been in ahead of the main raiding force on the night of 22/3 November , one pair of these canoeists were caught — described later — and the second missed their rendezvous , paddling back to England . |
| 10 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 11 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
| 12 | The monster 17-inch displays are only really worth the extra expense if you 're into desktop publishing or graphic design . |
| 13 | MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter . |
| 14 | I mean , these metal strips are down there for the public entertainment license , they were n't gon na give us it because the carpet was lifting . |
| 15 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 16 | Such conflicts are generally not in the long-term interests of either party : the deterioration in the investment climate adversely affects the interests of both parties . |
| 17 | And an Iraqi airways jumbo chartered by the British Embassy is expected to fly the three hundred and six people who are already here in the Iraqi capital , to Jordan . |
| 18 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |
| 19 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 20 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 21 | The fangs of this pygmy rattlesnake are clearly visible but are not yet in the full striking position . |
| 22 | But the plates like these are not just for the rich . |
| 23 | This is because their world knowledge tells them that the banks found near rivers are not usually of the financial type ( although it must be stressed that this interpretation is not wrong , it is just less likely ) . |
| 24 | Management consultants are not quite in the American lawyer category when it comes to vilification , but they attract their fair share ( well almost … ) : the Financial Times defines a management consultant as someone who sees something working in practice and wonders whether it will work in theory … |
| 25 | The four stars are not quite in the same × 7 field . |
| 26 | They are not always on the best of terms with the carters with whom they have to deal , and threats of actual violence do not tend to the increase of business . |
| 27 | And it is better if you have something you are allowed to wake them up about as well , so that you are not always on the receiving end . |
| 28 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 29 | The men who come to the colonies from France are not always of the best quality . |
| 30 | The wartime Hallé ensemble and intonation are not always of the purest quality , and despite excellent remastering , the mono sound of Baxi 's Third Symphony was never exactly ingratiating , although an amazing amount of detail does register — not least the gleaming anvil stroke in the first movement . |