Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 2 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 3 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 4 | The Torres reds are also available and surely the ‘ jewel in the crown ’ must be the superb Gran Coronas Black Label , which the proprietor serves with the pride of someone who knows you wo n't be disappointed . |
| 5 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 6 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 7 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 8 | We recognised that training for this role needed to be more structured and now a formal training programme to supplement and extend my training has been set up with the cooperation of senior medical staff . |
| 9 | Managers and proprietors soon realized that if halls were to be half full they might as well be totally full and so every ingenious method was used to maximize attendance . |
| 10 | Self-help groups can be very useful and ideally every physician caring for diabetics should have access to a person skilled in helping people to rid themselves of the smoking habit . |
| 11 | Initially the quantity expected to be eaten should be very small and gradually the amount increased up to a normal portion for the age of the child . |
| 12 | If menstruation was hidden — in theory , at least — the bodily changes which accompany it were clearly observable and indeed the outward signs of its invisible presence . |
| 13 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 14 | The British music business is extremely competitive and only the bands who are prepared to commit themselves totally to their careers will succeed . |
| 15 | With regard to children 's adjustment when there is a step-parent and a non-custodial visiting parent , the research evidence is less clear and obviously the age of the child can be a crucial factor which has not yet been properly researched . |
| 16 | It is already residential and only the degree of care would change . |
| 17 | It is already residential and only the degree of care would change . |
| 18 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 19 | Colour is also important and here the grey of senecio , rosemary and santolina is the perfect foil for the purple sage , choisya and ceonothus , the latter ideally planted against that southerly fence . |
| 20 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |
| 21 | He has argued that such a thing is indeed possible and often a potential solution to the legitimation crisis ' . |
| 22 | This is quite correct and yet the preferences of green consumers are already impairing sales of poor-world wares like palm oil , coffee and sugar . |
| 23 | Despite its classification as an A road , it is relatively quiet and only an occasional car will disturb a walker 's appreciation of the scenery . |
| 24 | It 's completely comprehensive and really the only thing I would say in addition to that is er there are further meetings coming up . |
| 25 | At L 2 the slope of a , the ray from the origin is actually tangent , I 'm sorry , the the ray is actually tangent and therefore the slope of that ray is the same as the slope of the total product curve at that point . |
| 26 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 27 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 28 | In the case of a planet N is very large and therefore a considerably larger quantity of volatiles can be acquired by the planet by this means than it could acquire by capturing gases directly from the PFM . |
| 29 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
| 30 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |