Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also consider that requests for assistance should come through the Deputy Director Operations as arranged and not be dealt with in a haphazard way between unit commanders who are presumably not in the full operational picture . ’ |
| 2 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
| 3 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 4 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 5 | Numbers of mandibles are high in both samples , but the relative proportions of maxillae are much less in the trampled sample , 24 per cent instead of 64 per cent ( Append . |
| 6 | I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it . |
| 7 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 8 | Bob , now retired , commented that his father would have been justly aloft as the focal point of the town , to remind all visitors of the great contribution made by this aircraft type to Canadian history . |
| 9 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 10 | ( In Example 90 , the triads are so frequently of the augmented type that it seems probable that the harmony was composed first and the horizontal outline of each voice delineated only afterwards . |
| 11 | The monster 17-inch displays are only really worth the extra expense if you 're into desktop publishing or graphic design . |
| 12 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 13 | Such conflicts are generally not in the long-term interests of either party : the deterioration in the investment climate adversely affects the interests of both parties . |
| 14 | And an Iraqi airways jumbo chartered by the British Embassy is expected to fly the three hundred and six people who are already here in the Iraqi capital , to Jordan . |
| 15 | If you make it a chore or a conflict you are already back on the vicious cycle . |
| 16 | Phil Clarke , Andy Platt , Martin Dermott , Steve Hampson and Jason Robinson are already out of the televised first round encounter , while Joe Lydon is struggling with a twisted ankle . |
| 17 | we 're only just off the main road |
| 18 | Some are completely on another plateau , you know , they 're just not in the real world ; they wander round and do n't make eye-contact unless they 're talking to you ; they just look at the ceiling all the time when they 're lecturing . |
| 19 | It even OK to sleep with her — whether you 're still together in the same house or living apart . |
| 20 | The problem I think comes when you go when you become insolvent , you know , and I think that 's and so therefore unless we 're going to come up with some system where we do insure our pensions as we do our home , then you , you , you 're still back to the basic contract between a company and an individual . |
| 21 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
| 22 | And then you 're straight on to the next job . |
| 23 | The incomparable off-roader , its restyled interior also sets new luxury standards for a leisure vehicle — they 're fully up to the rich appointments of a Mercedes-Benz saloon . |
| 24 | You may obviously you 're going to have two payments coming in but you may well find that you know they 're no longer on the same sort of day . |
| 25 | We 're never even in the damned cabin at the same time . ’ |
| 26 | Apart from its royal members , the number of Knights of the Garter is limited to twenty-four , and this restriction , coupled with the fact that since 1946 it has been once more in the personal gift of the monarch , makes its membership peculiarly exclusive . |
| 27 | MORE than 12 years after teaming up in Heriot-Watt University 's volleyball team , two Royal Bank staff are once again in the thick of the action . |
| 28 | Test scores are still well below the not-too-high state average . |
| 29 | Negotiations are still underway between the National Rivers Authority and the Harwich Haven Authority ( HHA ) for a dredging project which would help protect The Naze . |
| 30 | Thus in painting , where patronal relations , in directly commissioned works ( the simplest example is the portrait ) , have also persisted , there are still some examples of artisanal and many post-artisanal relations , the latter still often in their first phase , where a painter 's relations to a gallery which sells his work are still commonly in the distributive phase . |