Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the case of those groups which are less advanced today the process will take longer , but that is all the difference . '
2 I am not sure why the Minister would not take that on board .
3 I am not sure why the idea of an old woman in an unlit room reading out newspaper headlines for her grandson tickles me so , but it does .
4 I am not sure why the hatred exists .
5 If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility .
6 We are not sure how the land masses lay , but they certainly bore no resemblance in either form or distribution to modern continents .
7 The issues to which my hon. Friend referred are just those where the health service needs to do a little better on listening to patients ' needs .
8 Or , wh what that , that we just give out grants , and we 're not responsible how the money is spent .
9 If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost .
10 A If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost .
11 If the figures are more marginal then the Policyholder should be offered the possibility of a constructive total loss or the option of having the vessel repaired whereupon we would pay the insured value less the Policy Excess subject to proof being provided that the vessel has in fact been repaired .
12 If both have identical mark positions but are still asymmetric then the fault can only be analysed by measuring line lengths to determine which is wrong .
13 Class lists for 1979–80 are now available fro the Medau Office in Epsom .
14 but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period
15 I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans .
16 Some groups can be more individualistic where the individual identifies less strongly , there are fewer icons , there 's less erm dogmatic er certainty about doctrine and so on , so more room for an individual variation and those groups will be relatively er looser and there would be less identification of the individual with the leader or the leading principals .
17 Where an old person is still to be seen at the centre of a web of relationships that extend down the generations and through the individual members to the community beyond it can be quite startling how the pleasure derived from life remains undiminished despite quite severe physical and material handicaps .
18 His belief is that it is preferable if the RF tuner and RDS processing stages of the receiver are continuously active whenever the vehicle ignition is switched on .
19 But if those forms of capital are n't available then the business has to raise capital by some other means and this is very often done by liquidated assets that they currently hold and releasing the capital for the new project .
20 He attacks oralism as an additional depriving agent since it insists on having no further stimulation other than speech , when it is the language stimulation which is most important not the modality of stimulation .
21 With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , it is less obvious how the placebo effect works .
22 If the algorithm is not admissible then the decision to end the search is fairly arbitrary .
23 If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate .
24 Secondly , computer mapping allows the user to experiment ; if the final product is not satisfactory then the labour involved in redrafting the map is negligible in comparison with manual methods .
25 It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) .
26 The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) .
27 It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time .
28 It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament .
29 * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study .
30 In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen .
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