Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , what was the plan about the others for all you knew who you believed was there , might have been somewhere else in the flat . |
| 2 | The whole setup had been quiet , almost deserted ; there had been music playing , but that had been somewhere far-off in the house . |
| 3 | The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen . ’ |
| 4 | In music , the world 's top artists are most often with the world 's top record companies . |
| 5 | But while the report has been detailed on closures and mergers , it has been less so on the specifics about how the shift to the community will be achieved . |
| 6 | In spurious Caledonian footie parlance , if The Cateran were a Willie Johnston sorta band — fiery , brilliant hot-heads with a tendency to put their foot in it — then The Joyriders are much more in the Alan Hansen mould : cool , confident on the ball and capable of supreme moments of inspiration . |
| 7 | Those who succeed are much more in the image of representatives at the party conference than members of the old ‘ Establishment ’ . |
| 8 | In contrast , the effects of the reformulations in [ 22 ] and [ 12 ] are much more like the effects of the repetitions in [ 23 ] . |
| 9 | The sexual and aggressive drives are much less under the guidance of rules . |
| 10 | It might have been all right in the past but it does n't work now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You would have been all right in the end . |
| 12 | No these numbers are basically nationally at the moment . |
| 13 | Churchill had been long enough at the Treasury , and could perhaps go to the India Office . |
| 14 | The above were all covered by the Corporation Superannuation Scheme , but there are believed to have been more motormen and conductors who had not been long enough with the Corporation to qualify . |
| 15 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
| 16 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 17 | This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools . |
| 18 | So in financial terms the local authorities are entirely virtually in the pocket , literally in the pocket of central government . |
| 19 | I do n't believe we are so far from the nomad as people in Europe believe . |
| 20 | Such factors , however , are only partly under the control of government . |
| 21 | The mites are only just beneath the skin . |
| 22 | Like the majority of d-i-y models , it has an 82mm planing width , and a maximum cutting depth of 0.5mm. larger capacity machines which take off as much as 3mm per pass are more expensive , and are only really worth the money if you are a professional . |
| 23 | its not , you ca n't , the thing is you ca n't defend them without how you die , you ca n't train people how to avo to die , you can only train them how to avoid it , so it does n't really matter if you get fired or not , but they show you the drills and you have to do them to the best of your ability the blank rounds are only there to the conditions , now this is why they 've got these laser got laser sights all over the body , helmet and torso and the actual weapons got a laser on top and you get , if you get near one of these things you go dead and your out , and you can actually simulate |
| 24 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 25 | ‘ We are alone just for the moment . ’ |
| 26 | A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item … |
| 27 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 28 | Although the carriers are normally fully under the control of the computer , there is the facility for the work group to give commands to the computer from one of 40 VDUs scattered throughout the plant . |
| 29 | This was surprising ; Atrazine and other herbicides like Alachlor are made to degrade quickly , and discharges are normally only in the parts per billion range . |
| 30 | ‘ I am off-duty , ’ said Sally-Anne awefully , ‘ and I am bound to tell you that although I am here I am not here in the sense of waiting on you . ’ |