Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British picture is different ; rapes , robbery and assault are predominantly intra-racial as far as can be analysed , except for racial attacks on blacks . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , Miss Grimsilk — I am most intrigued where did you learn your German ? |
| 3 | We are rather living apart now , some down South |
| 4 | Given the subject covered by the consultation paper , we are rather concerned not to have been notified of its existence . |
| 5 | We erm , we have some photographs of w which are rather horrendous actually , of R T As . |
| 6 | The reason seems to be that men and machines are fundamentally complementary rather than comparable , this point was originally made by Jordan ( 1963 ) . |
| 7 | Two specimens of the same species , we normally assume , are numerically distinguishable even if they are qualitatively completely alike . |
| 8 | Such systems are effective as conservation strategies and are economically successful elsewhere in Jamaica . |
| 9 | Unlike other family dependants … women are economically dependent not because they need care but because they give it . |
| 10 | From this it is clear that Goldner and Hendrix are acutely aware not just of quality but also of rarity and of what will not be available again . |
| 11 | Educational policies are generally arrived at through painstaking research into past and present practices , yet policies which ultimately dictate the future are rarely radical enough to reflect all the detail and ramifications of this research . |
| 12 | A stuff sack should be used to carry your bag in a rucksack , but stuff sacks are rarely waterproof so always put the whole lot inside a polythene bag . |
| 13 | These skirmishes are rarely any more than two males approaching each other and lowering their heads until they are pointing head down in a vertical position . |
| 14 | Consequently , there are rarely any really diagnostic ceramic or metal artefacts that can provide any clue as to their age . |
| 15 | These faults are rarely detectable so , in turn , the individual kite-maker benefits through being able to purchase quality material in small quantities from the kite shop . |
| 16 | Conditions are jolly hot there , and they 're going to have to get used to that quite quickly , the big thing is to get them through and out into the desert as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | Things are little better here , and it is n't only record sales which have been affected . |
| 18 | In Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia former enemies who by rights should , and quite probably do , detest each other are vigorously horse-trading today . |
| 19 | I looked forward to the visit not only because visitors from Lord Darlington 's days are most rare now — Mr Farraday 's circle , naturally , being quite different from his lordship 's — but also because I presumed Mr Graham would accompany Sir James as of old , and I would thus be able to get his opinion on this question of bantering . |
| 20 | Omissions are most patent perhaps in surveys made with a political bias . |
| 21 | something to a third party for decision , they are most likely not to have agreed about it , and however one analyses their disagreement , they are in dispute . |
| 22 | Your actions are most likely then to be remedial . |
| 23 | Those whose actions are most likely directly to involve human suffering or even death may hesitate to use their whole industrial and political muscle for fear of the adverse reaction of public opinion and decision-makers should their action be the cause of some tragedy , such as death . |
| 24 | Not all people who recurrently diet or who are excessively thin are necessarily anorexic just as not all people who drink regularly or excessively are necessarily alcoholic . |
| 25 | On other occasions you may want to place specific feature material or to say " thank you " , and personal meetings are obviously useful here . |
| 26 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here . |
| 28 | Phonemes are obviously sensitive enough to make fine discriminations between lexical descriptions since this is their function by definition . |
| 29 | The smoke contains levels of carcinogenic substances and heavy metals like cadmium , lead and berillium that are way in excess of permitted limits , some of which are much higher anyway than those in West Germany — lead 34 times , berillium 80 times and cadmium 166 times . |
| 30 | However , I think the stakes are much higher now , and Sun is growing more desperate . |