Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 2 | Ways into reading text , strategies for coping with monolithic texts as well as texts considered to be of less " value " are arguably as vital a part of the educational process as any learning about text . |
| 3 | The results have , sometimes , been less than spectacular . |
| 4 | ‘ We did attempt to do that in the early stages , for example with Ascom Timeplex , but generally what 's happened is that the distribution relationships have been less than perfect , ’ explains Howard . |
| 5 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 6 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 7 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 8 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 9 | Her parting exchange with Rain had been less than friendly . |
| 10 | An uninformed reader of ‘ Safety : the perils of self-regulation ’ might be forgiven for concluding that the powers that be and their executive arm , the Health and Safety Executive , had been less than wholehearted in promoting and enforcing safety ( Talking Point , 12 January ) . |
| 11 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 12 | The variation in salinity at a depth of 1,600m has been less than standard deviations from the 1975–78 mean . |
| 13 | While it is good to see statutory and voluntary bodies asking themselves , ‘ what are we doing about West Belfast ? ’ the responses have been less than convincing . |
| 14 | Once more , the collection of interest payments had been less than efficient . |
| 15 | Prior to his dismissal Garrett had commissioned Vander Schaaf to investigate allegations that the Navy 's own investigation of the matter had been less than thorough . |
| 16 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 17 | Where the information supplied to the Council has been less than adequate , discussions at meetings between representatives of bodies and the Council 's members and officers have been helpful in enabling the Council to obtain more of the information it wishes to have to assist it in determining the grant offer . |
| 18 | Revenue from turnover and income tax and from privatization had been less than expected . |
| 19 | The difficulties had been less than expected . |
| 20 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 21 | People just dropped in , even though many had been less than welcome with some of It 's staff . |
| 22 | As such it was widely interpreted as a personal triumph for Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , whose position as leader of the party had been less than secure since his election in October 1991 . |
| 23 | While the technique ( which combines content with process ) has been well documented , the research on its effectiveness has been less than exciting . |
| 24 | He could not afford too many jaunts like this — especially as his father had been less than joyful at his return . |
| 25 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 26 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 27 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 28 | His armed forces are still dependent on non-Arab personnel , secrecy surrounds the extent of military ties with the United States and Oman has been less than enthusiastic in supporting Arab League action against the Camp David accords . |
| 29 | Though not strictly competitive , the selection of schools inevitably involves comparisons according to a range of formal and informal criteria , and since funds have until recently always been less than sufficient to serve all deserving cases , an element of competition is inescapable . |
| 30 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |