Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So subtle are often the |
| 2 | By this fantastic ideological wrench these critics are able to turn the world upside-down to prove that those films that appear ‘ … most local and concentrated are often the most universal in appeal ’ ( Philip French , The Observer , 16 October 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Of these twelve , the first eight are much the most abundant , with silicon and oxygen head and shoulders above the rest . |
| 4 | Of course , the British are not the only ones to take holidays and it is possible that you will be sharing your hotel with a group ( perhaps a large one ) from another country . |
| 5 | The firm exports to 75 countries , but the British are still the main buyers . |
| 6 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 7 | Amongst the most salient are perhaps the following : |
| 8 | BELVILLE : I wish this be not the hour , the very hour . |
| 9 | If this were not the case it would be a dead subject , beautiful perhaps but boring . |
| 10 | If this were not the case , then the collocation dictionaries would not adequately represent the test data . |
| 11 | His Lordship indicated that even if this were not the case he would have rejected any agency argument on the same grounds as Staughton J. , and the Court of Appeal . |
| 12 | If this were not the case , human energies would be endlessly employed in rediscovering the wheel and , indeed , every other mental , physical and emotional discovery ever made . |
| 13 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 14 | If this were not the case and F t < E ( S T ) , a trader who bought a futures contract now and held it to delivery would , on average , make a profit of E ( S T ) - F t . |
| 15 | If this were not the case , it would be open to a constable to ask a member of parliament or other prominent person to stop speaking ( or never even to begin his address ) , and a failure to do so would constitute an offence . |
| 16 | But suppose this were not the case . |
| 17 | If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins . |
| 18 | If this were not the case , then the two components would necessarily remain coupled in a way that would allow little difference from convection due to just one of them . |
| 19 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 20 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 21 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 22 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 23 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 24 | If this were indeed the whole truth about anorexia nervosa , it would be a straightforward medical problem , and therefore comparatively simple to resolve . |
| 25 | The 1890s were probably the most remarkable decade in British deaf history — no other decade with the possible exception of the 1980s saw the social status of deaf people held so high in public esteem . |
| 26 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 27 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 28 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 29 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 30 | When it comes to mysteries about the distribution of creatures of the Oriental Region , the local nature of that of the gharial is possibly the greatest of them all . |