Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking ‘ classical ’ texts such as Balzac 's ‘ Sarrasine ’ are predominantly readerly , whereas modern texts are predominantly writerly . |
| 2 | the quality concepts are understood , the benefits are widely enough known to convince even the sceptics about the importance of using the framework . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dyson luxuriantly , pressing the point of his pencil through the surface of a copy-pad , ‘ I am rather heavily committed , of course . |
| 4 | Now I am rather less . |
| 5 | And as far as this freedom for schools , I am rather more interested in freedom for parents , and things like open enrolments seem to me to be more akin to how far the au pair can drive the Volvo in twenty minutes than any real choice for parents . |
| 6 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 7 | I shall say something this morning about the negotiation on political union , in which I am most closely involved , but I do not want to concentrate on those themes today , because the world has not obligingly stood still as we prepare the approach to Maastricht . |
| 8 | A governess is what I am most surely not . |
| 9 | I am most certainly not advocating a local income tax , more an income-related property tax . |
| 10 | ‘ I am most grievously shocked , and so too , will be John Patten . ’ |
| 11 | I am besides about to be deserted by my husband , who is to go this next week to Rome to prepare the way for the Brownings . |
| 12 | These areas are rather regularly distributed in controlled transition , more randomly in uncontrolled transition . |
| 13 | These provisions are rather awkwardly drafted as a result of the need to accommodate both the use of the system of Central Authorities and the other permitted modes of transmission . |
| 14 | In practice sensitization and dishabituation are rather closely related processes . |
| 15 | France 's ever-vigilant culture police are rather belatedly railing against the transatlantic intruder . |
| 16 | Certain sociological facts and considerations are rather hastily admitted , usually in a received and well-worn form , and some minor place is reserved for them . |
| 17 | Moorhens , for example , are rather poorly adapted to parasitising their own . |
| 18 | The character stats are amongst the most comprehensive in any RPG , but are rather poorly presented . |
| 19 | This is the argument that suggests that senior officers are rather like Sir Humphrey figures in Yes Minister , who take the view that there 's nothing wrong with the government except for all these elected clowns that clutter the place up |
| 20 | Indeed despite the small proportion of women councillors they are rather better represented in local councils than in Parliament . |
| 21 | Rumens 's play has similar concerns , though they are rather less delicately expressed . |
| 22 | But we should be able to achieve that without cutting back in those regions where needs , though still real enough , are rather less acute . ’ |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the significance of ASW consultation with male relatives , and a tendency to examine social factors which may have challenged GP definitions less than with other referrals are rather less positive . |
| 24 | OK , the radical Maoist lesbian communes of what used to be Berkeley University are rather less keen on topless sunbathing than the nubiles of Saint Tropez . |
| 25 | Carbohydrates : Fish are rather less good at assimilating this energy source than humans . |
| 26 | The causes of weakness in adhesion are rather less understood at present than they are in cohesion but no doubt they are generally similar in character . |
| 27 | ONE day you 're a movie star , the next your rolls are rather less grand . |
| 28 | Fujitsu Ltd 's threatened losses have caused the company to run afoul of Nippon Investors Service , one of the Japanese credit rating agencies — in Japan the rating agencies are rather less independent than their US counterparts — to review its Triple-A rating of Fujitsu 's long-term bonds and its A1-Plus domestic commercial paper rating for a possible downgrade . |
| 29 | The rest of us are rather less censorious and happily Nilsson 's greatest roles are all preserved on disc . |
| 30 | Where they are rather less successful is in evoking the Bachian overtones of the Double Violin Concerto . |