Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are keenly aware the BMA leadership could come under attack from its rank and file . |
| 2 | Beyond whatever limits of cover are commercially obtainable the choice would seem to lie between limiting liability by agreement ( where this is possiblesee Chapter 2 ) with the client and exposing the private assets of the partners . |
| 3 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
| 4 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 5 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 6 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 7 | Overwhelmed by Pamella 's beauty , she remembers what Mark Boxer once said to her : ‘ Darling , you are much better the way you are now ; at 40 even the most beautiful women fall apart . ’ |
| 8 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
| 9 | As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation . |
| 10 | Swindon are long overdue an away victory . |
| 11 | When solutions are sufficiently dilute a plot of against c is linear and the third virial coefficients ( B 3 , A 3 , Γ 3 ) can be neglected . |
| 12 | We are together all the time for weeks and months on end . |
| 13 | Since published sources for instrument makers are extremely scarce the French archives provide the best ( and perhaps the only ) opportunity for new research on the Hotteterres . |
| 14 | If the solar System is at a special place , then the concept of terrestrial mediocrity ( that we are so ordinary the Universe at large must be just like our neighbourhood ) takes something of a knock . |
| 15 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
| 16 | Those palm trees are so funny the way the grow straight up . |
| 17 | But in the national insurance system , a bottom layer of income ( up to £43 a week ) is only contribution-free for those whose total earnings are below such a level ; once they cross the threshold , they are obliged to pay contributions on the lot . |
| 18 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 19 | Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago . |
| 20 | Jackie 's ears are down all the time . |
| 21 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 22 | Why my paternal so-called grandparents had been so stuffy the only time I met them . |
| 23 | ‘ Never has there been so great a need for the talented people universities can provide and nurture , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 25 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 26 | Never had they been so great a power in the country . |
| 27 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 28 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 29 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 30 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |