Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 2 | Working in Habitat on Kings Road proved to be depressingly similar and again Ms Ledson was paid off , that time after three weeks . |
| 3 | Companies with well-established brands , which are the best vehicles for such expansion , are likely to be increasingly few and far between — this explains the keen interest in and premium price paid for Rowntree . |
| 4 | The storage of grain or many bolts of cloth imposed loads upon the structures of these buildings almost as heavy as the machinery contained in the textile mills and therefore their construction had to be equally robust and similarly fireproof . |
| 5 | At the very least I had expected him to be physically frail and mentally chastened ; a boy worn out by his long addiction and frightened of the criminal charges that hung over him , but instead he came out of the limo and down the dock with the frisky energy of a puppy . |
| 6 | Facilities are to be environmentally efficient and visually attractive . |
| 7 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 8 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 9 | ‘ We have to be environmentally responsible and commercially aware to secure our future business , ’ said , commercial manager for Protective Coatings ( Europe ) . |
| 10 | This all-enfolding system was to be thoroughly metaphysical and consistently rational . |
| 11 | Also , the project is proving to be even larger than originally thought . |
| 12 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 13 | She did not appear to be unduly depressed and now said that she thought the act had been rather drastic , but did not regret it . |
| 14 | They turned out to be practically unbreakable as well as hard-wearing . |
| 15 | This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered . |
| 16 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 17 | 2 Source B is a propaganda poster produced by the suffragettes and is therefore likely to be heavily biased and also exaggerated . |
| 18 | Considering " all-cause cardiovascular mortality , " the exercise test was found to be moderately sensitive and moderately specific . |
| 19 | The jaws appear to be slightly wider than long . |
| 20 | The male of the species tends to be slightly smaller and more slender than the female . |
| 21 | In the first instance , her comment that ‘ ethnic and sexual minorities were pandered to ’ I found to be blatantly racist and most offensive . |
| 22 | The questionnaire was designed to be largely self-explanatory and relatively quick to complete . |
| 23 | It is worth remembering that simple sentences are more likely to be grammatically correct than long , involved ones . |
| 24 | " Why , what has happened to them ? " said Clara , who felt such a question to be not impertinent but positively requested . |
| 25 | From the point of view of the banker or shareholder these may seem to be not unreasonable or even undesirable limitations . |
| 26 | A quarter consider it very worthwhile and almost another half consider it to be fairly , a quarter found it to be not very but only 5 per cent thought it was not at all worthwhile . |
| 27 | Yet the only writer who knew himself to be mortally ill and yet managed to achieve great things was Franz Kafka : ‘ It is not easy to build an oeuvre knowing that one has a revolver pointed at one 's neck . ’ |
| 28 | Alix seemed to her to be both practical and highly intelligent . |
| 29 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 30 | If a 3 is found to be both positive and statistically significant then the model suggests that dividends are undesirable and that rational shareholders should prefer to take their returns in the form of capital gains . |