Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 2 | As far as output is concerned , some do particularly badly — producing outputs completely in the wrong ballpark ; some , however , are rather better and a few are really quite good . |
| 3 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 4 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 5 | The normal Chinese day starts at 8 a.m. , and of course is 6 days working a week , so we are rather lucky that the course leaders have allowed us to start at 8.30 . |
| 6 | Again this assumption is rather gross as the social and health care needs of the two age groups are rather different and the costs of supporting these two age groups are also very different . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 8 | It will probably necessitate reorganising part of the database and , therefore , navigational systems are rather inflexible once the design has been implemented . |
| 9 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 10 | The three measures of the extent to which reproductive success varies within each sex are fundamentally similar though the last is the most convenient since it offers a measure of the potential change in fitness between generations , relative to the average ( see Crow , 1958 ) . |
| 11 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 12 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 13 | In writing this I am acutely aware that the energy of commitment fuelled by the gravity of the situation in the Philippines has once more taken a hold of me . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said . |
| 15 | In many cases they are vastly higher than the highest note anybody has heard or can imagine . |
| 16 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 17 | Manufacturers are acutely aware that the only way of stopping parallel trade in the Community is uniform pricing . |
| 18 | Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man . |
| 19 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 20 | The financial costs of incineration , even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling . |
| 21 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 22 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 23 | We said that non-standard forms are rarely more than a social irritant to some people , and that there are few situations where such forms could cause real communication problems . |
| 24 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 25 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 26 | Their environments are locally various and the types are often divided from each other by the topography of the country , so that several different regional types have developed over the years . |
| 27 | Most hakims are medically unqualified and the main conditions they treat are fatigue and depression , digestive disorders , psychosexual problems , and skin conditions . |
| 28 | Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus — such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones . |
| 29 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 30 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |