Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's already known that women who take the contraceptive pill are much less likely to develop it . |
| 2 | A succession of managers have sworn by his midfield drive and energy but , it seems , been only too happy to let him move on . |
| 3 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 4 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 5 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 6 | And I am much too disappointed to curse her , to realise that she is probably in for a cut herself . |
| 7 | I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process . |
| 8 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 9 | ‘ Now , we advertise repeatedly for any POWs who are in trouble , and we are only too pleased to help them . |
| 10 | Which is why we have an enormous range of Stainshield carpets , and knowledgeable staff who are only too happy to give you advice on how to choose a carpet with a carefree , long life . |
| 11 | This needs to be done skilfully , and is usually done by trained researchers , who are adept at getting people to talk and at avoiding asking leading questions — because that is not merely cheating , it will lead to you deluding yourself : in this type of interview people are only too eager to tell you what they think you want to know . |
| 12 | I am born of noble stock and I am not too proud to admit it . |
| 13 | you do not mind my taking this method of answering your letter and I hope that you , I did not put you to too much trouble to locate a recorder to listen to the tape , I am just too lazy to write it all down and think that what I have to say I can put it better in words than what I can on paper , I 'll let you do that part . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you are not yet ready to use them correctly . ’ |
| 15 | The predictions of economic theory are not sufficiently clear-cut to permit us to proscribe monopoly outright . |
| 16 | All these things are just as likely to rid you of a headache as taking a pill . |
| 17 | Research by London Weekend Television , however , has shown that light ITV viewers , who can be expected to see a given commercial very few times , are just as likely to recognize it as those who should have seen it several times . |
| 18 | It is of vital importance to the successful operation of the police that they should have the co-operation of the public and they 're much more likely to get it if democratically elected representatives of the public are well represented indeed in the majority at least on the police authority . |
| 19 | And one of the things that these trainings help you is that if you expect something of a child then you 're much more likely to get it ! |
| 20 | They 're not even supposed to have them . |
| 21 | ‘ Do I take it you 're not entirely disappointed to see me back ? ’ |
| 22 | Yes because they 're not very nice to eat they just get in your teeth I 'll rinse these up |
| 23 | we actually ended up with a lot more I P R people and we 'd done all the work and they got most of the money now that 's fine that 's the way life goes sometimes , but I must admit I think that depending on how big an event you want to make it you 're maybe as well to keep it an B A I E event and open it up quietly at the end |
| 24 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 25 | The bookies are probably quite pleased to have him back because he 's got a very loyal following of er , of people who 'll put bets on him |
| 26 | AMERICA 'S psychiatrists believe that too many defendants in important court cases in the US are escaping conviction by claiming that they are insane — and psychiatrists are often too keen to help them . |
| 27 | Many graduates could benefit from TOPS courses because their degree courses are often too specialised to allow them to acquire the generalised skills useful in many jobs . |
| 28 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |
| 29 | They are far too liable to have it chopped off . |
| 30 | Such symptoms are far less likely to trouble you if you gradually reduce your intake until you are able to go without the substances altogether . |