Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She convinces herself today that something was red yesterday that most assuredly was blue . " |
| 2 | Only rarely are other sites like hunting bases recognised , usually from scatters of flints , and very few have ever been scientifically examined . |
| 3 | Only rarely is such a person genuinely odd , at least in the beginning . |
| 4 | Fully saturated colours , interestingly , tended to be at the red end of the spectrum for the six subjects involved in this study , and only rarely were saturated blues , purples or blue-greens reported . |
| 5 | Such approaches are best made by telephone rather than in writing and will only rarely be successful . |
| 6 | ‘ Much rather be alive than dead . ’ |
| 7 | To be so close to a girl and yet so rarely be able to caress her . |
| 8 | Well th th the auxiliaries would have one shop steward like for brushing and tacking , mending you know there 's perhaps only be fifty altogether . |
| 9 | If overtime was indeed needed , so perhaps was work-sharing , a modern idea which tries to spread the dignity of jobs around . |
| 10 | I 'm not getting anywhere my legs are n't long enough is this free , Dee , do you know ? |
| 11 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 12 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 13 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 14 | The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference . |
| 15 | She wanted to cry then , terrible tears of hopelessness , for the kiss and the way he held her so comfortingly were hopeless . |
| 16 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 17 | The finest of them all was probably Roger Payne ( 1739–97 ) , paradoxically an uneducated , hard-drinking workman , content to live in squalor , yet , over the years 1770–97 , producing for such patrons as Lord Spencer work that influenced the craft not only in England but in France , whose binding had for so long been supreme . |
| 18 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 19 | Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed . |
| 20 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 21 | This was a departure from tradition , since the illuminated cars had hitherto only been decorative . |
| 22 | They 'd only normally be happy to do that , if they did n't have the policy in the first place , would n't they . |
| 23 | ‘ Not far from here , near Boaler Street , so just be careful , young Anne . |
| 24 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 25 | Only once was I innocent enough to voice my fears , bringing down wounding charges on my head . |
| 26 | What moves much less still is riven timber . |
| 27 | Only gradually were these treacherous areas brought into profitable use from peat digging to farming or , especially in our own time , for afforestation . |
| 28 | ‘ There has only ever been one criteria for choosing a Wedding Present single . |
| 29 | ‘ Look at the one wearing the collar , then or now , there 's only ever been one liar , and it 's the Holy Roman Empire . ’ |
| 30 | " There 's only ever been one other person , " I said , stumbling over the words so that they sounded false even to me . |