Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 2 | More widespread concern about bank credit risk or the imposition of credit controls on the banking system could stimulate the development of the market , but they are presumably not the routes through which the Bank of England would prefer development to take place . |
| 3 | They went together , they 've been somewhere together the other night . |
| 4 | While men and women under 30 are most often the victims of crime , the impact is greatest upon those over 50 . |
| 5 | The chief candidates for this distinction are most certainly the higher primates , and of them perhaps more especially the near relatives of man , the chimpanzee and gorilla . |
| 6 | In the UK , these are most typically the nationalized industries . |
| 7 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 8 | They are difficult to investigate as the ones carrying out the dealing are obviously not the ones who have access to the inside information . |
| 9 | And so it goes on : cases which are obviously only the tip of the iceberg since they relate to repeated absence caused by serious illness of a relative . |
| 10 | But whereas neurosis is , in a sense , a private affair , affecting mainly the person who suffers from it , delinquency and acting-out of neurotic conflicts are much more the concern of society as a whole and are certainly likely to affect others to a greater degree than is normally true of the symptoms of a conventional neurosis . |
| 11 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 12 | You will be buying fish that have been fully acclimatised to the British seasons , and which are long past the ailments associated with new imports . |
| 13 | We are long past the stage where talk about the curriculum could be left to the academics ; beyond the stage where the views of the professions and the wider society had to be sought . |
| 14 | Does the Minister agree that we are long past the stage of apportioning blame ? |
| 15 | It began in fact with what are perhaps still the best crime short stories to be found ; the tales of Sherlock Holmes . |
| 16 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 17 | Strange that this bird sits there and sings While we must only sit and plan Who are so much the higher things — The murder of our fellow man … |
| 18 | Like a horse and carriage , love and marriage do go together ; but selfishness and self-seeking and the anger generated by violated sensitivities and unmet needs are so often the outer evidence of an increasing inner barrenness . |
| 19 | The carelessness born of fatigue and the complacency that follows victory are so often the preconditions for disaster , and they have to be fought with great patience and total concentration . |
| 20 | Take for example the level of wages and working practices of the print unions in Fleet Street which are so obviously the result of the use of naked power . |
| 21 | It would n't be in here , quotations are only normally the question from a pre-suppliers ? |
| 22 | Women are not like that ; or at least , the details , the weaknesses they dwell on in narration are only rarely the physical ones that men delight in . |
| 23 | Such accounts of the British ‘ constitution ’ are only superficially the result of the absence of a constitutional document . |
| 24 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
| 25 | And , as had been so memorably the case with the Punjab , the proof of the pudding was found to be in the eating . |
| 26 | ‘ I am just not the type to keep playing tennis at 28 or 29 , ’ the 23-year-old revealed yesterday . |
| 27 | But the change will further enhance the power of companies ' sponsoring brokers , who are already frequently the only analysts providing research on these illiquid shares . |
| 28 | Cunt and Rocky are just not the same issue . |
| 29 | ‘ On complex issues , Cabinet committees are just about the worst possible way of arriving at sensible decisions … . |
| 30 | There are just about the right number of ladies to infuriate the right-thinking and to make effective use of primary colours as highlight and contrast ; Kate Hoey in lime , Gillian Shephard in vivid egg custard , Alice Mahon in a fetching cerise , Glenda Jackson in a decent , sombre , high-necked red , Margaret Beckett , that oldtime leftist , even had a floor-cross royal blue . |