Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | The solid , silvery bubbles are most probably a species of algae called Sailor 's Eyeballs ( lovely name ! ) , which live in small , harmless colonies . |
| 3 | While men and women under 30 are most often the victims of crime , the impact is greatest upon those over 50 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 7 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that we are long past the stage of apportioning blame ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 13 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 14 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 15 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It would n't be in here , quotations are only normally the question from a pre-suppliers ? |
| 19 | Such accounts of the British ‘ constitution ’ are only superficially the result of the absence of a constitutional document . |
| 20 | ‘ Mick and Carla have been together quite a lot . |
| 21 | And , as had been so memorably the case with the Punjab , the proof of the pudding was found to be in the eating . |
| 22 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 23 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 24 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 25 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 26 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
| 27 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 28 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
| 29 | I had just taken up my position behind the till of the kitchen gadget department and the store had been open only a matter of minutes when my first customer literally ran into view . |
| 30 | I am not normally a vodka drinker but well , why not , it slipped down very easily with the sardines ! |