Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evil may have intelligence , but the Devil 's strategies against the church are not , it seems to me , to be understood as rational military strategies , rather they are more like desperate and increasingly vicious attacks ( does he know his time is short ? ) . |
| 2 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 3 | But while the legislators were vying with each other to amend insolvency laws which all were agreed were far from fair or just , in 1842 they were able to agree on the need to do away with the notorious symbol of that unfairness and injustice , the Fleet Prison . |
| 4 | My opinions were indeed in many and most important points erroneous ; but my heart was single . |
| 5 | However , I could n't help thinking that there was n't enough attention paid to the more natural types , the emphasis being instead on sharp or heavily mid-biased sounds . |
| 6 | It 's only after that that once again she begins to be worried at possible consequences ‘ What if God hath seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve ’ and therefore , of course , ‘ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe ’ . |
| 7 | Well er , at our school it 's just like that and then , then |
| 8 | The hardware , such as x ray , theatre , and laboratory equipment , is still of Chinese or even Russian origin , with some items being over 40 years old . |
| 9 | These are activities which we would be unable to perform without a detailed knowledge of their personal circumstances , and trying to persuade them auditing is even necessary or that anything has changed since Uncle Albert 's day , is nigh on impossible and certainly not an adequate reason for an additional fee . |
| 10 | There 's more to this than just finding Mike before he gets to Bernard , is n't there ? ’ |
| 11 | The beautiful grille in front of you is partly of 1620 and partly of 1760 . |
| 12 | Thus we have Macdonald reporting on the " almost unanimous chorus of opinion that women 's work as compositors is so inferior to men 's that it does not pay in the long run " ( the chorus in question being from employers ) But the testimony of individual employers is far from unanimous or even consistent . |
| 13 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 14 | How do you improve the lighting in existing houses , flats or apartments when the electrical lay-out is far from ideal and far from flexible ? |
| 15 | The pound had NOT been devalued — it was just worth less than before , a line echoed by Mr Lamont in TV interviews . |
| 16 | ‘ He had never run on heavy ground in his life and his best form was always on good or fast going , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 17 | Pippin II was still at large and still had supporters . |
| 18 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 19 | Constantine 's death in November 1028 , and the marriage of the fifty-year-old Zoe to Romanus Argyrus , who thus gained the Byzantine throne , brought this to nothing , and it was probably in 1029 or later that a stronger link with Cnut became attractive . |
| 20 | It was far from perfect and now it 's over . |
| 21 | When I saw it , in 1985 , Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin was far from finished and still , in part , a building site high in the mountains , which is an even stranger spectacle to come across . |