Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easiest to discuss these in terms of the human requirements upon notation ; indeed , even with computer-based catalogues and indexes , people will be required to use and write or remember notation ( at least until the day when document arrangement is no longer relevant , or when machines are widely available to re-file information , regardless of size or form ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I am rather inclined to think that the working conditions in this part of the country are opposed to the development of first class footballers , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I am rather surprised to hear that , because Greater Glasgow health board is very dissatisfied with the lack of consultation over the closure of two wards in Ruchill hospital in my constituency . |
| 4 | I am most grateful to have the opportunity to develop once again on the Adjournment the problems associated with trunk roads in Leicestershire . |
| 5 | I am most keen to take advantage of this offer , which is unlikely to be available in 1993/94 , given the dire state of BR 's overall financial position . |
| 6 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 7 | Indeed , I am most likely to have relationships on a day-to-day basis only with a relatively small number of people . |
| 8 | I am most happy to live in the room here , this lady has been so kind in accommodating me . |
| 9 | Since the point has now been referred by your Lordships ' House to the European Court of Justice in that case , I am most reluctant to become involved in any discussion upon it . |
| 10 | A biography of an artist is a tricky proposition for a writer , since the artist may prefer to be judged through art , not life ; the incidentals of an everyday activity , not altogether under the artist 's control , are rather unimportant compared to the artist 's concentrated effort to create paintings or sculpture . |
| 11 | Catalysts are rather esoteric thins which look — in the form industry uses them — either like macaroni or granules and they come in any colour of the rainbow . |
| 12 | In fact , its code is incorporated into the searcher , so that the two are rather hard to tell apart . |
| 13 | But some are rather hard to spell |
| 14 | An outsider to consider in the County Championship at attractive odds would be Derbyshire , who are rather over priced at 16–1 with Coral-Ladbrokes for instance go 8–1 . |
| 15 | The origins of fingerspelling are rather difficult to trace , though there are better records than for signs . |
| 16 | With their abundant documentation , monastic estates are rather easier to study . |
| 17 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I am dead chuffed to have got that ninth win . |
| 19 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 20 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 21 | If we look far enough ahead electric vehicles are eventually likely to replace the internal combustion engine but this will probably be far in the future for a number of reasons . |
| 22 | The proportion of men aged 65–69 who are economically active has decreased particularly quickly , from 30 per cent in 1971 to only 11.4 per cent in 1986 ( Table 5.6 ) . |
| 23 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 24 | Parents are mostly unwilling to carry it out unless they are very desperate and nothing else has worked . |
| 25 | Most applications for development are dealt with very rapidly by urban local-planning authorities , which are mostly eager to acquire new economic activity . |
| 26 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 27 | Detailed faults are incredibly complex to put right . |
| 28 | A word of warning here , I have seen tiny Neons for sale , but these are incredibly hard to keep alive for the newcomer to the hobby . |
| 29 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 30 | This is the reverse of the case in C&P , and this has been most encouraging to see . ’ |