Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if one of your customers is in financial trouble and he owes you money which is due in 20 days , you are much better off than if the debt does not fall due for 100 days . |
| 2 | We are pensioners with no help from Income Support so I want to know why we should pay for these people , a lot of them are much better off than we are and can afford to smoke and drink . |
| 3 | Under the new-look European farm policy agreed last year farmers are much better off than they thought they would be . |
| 4 | ‘ Other British sports are much worse off than athletics but are they doing as much as we are to put things right ? |
| 5 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 6 | Except I am much more so than you ! |
| 7 | Not too bad we we got well we had been together near enough since we left school but you know we decided to have a go at it seriously in in seventy five and then we recorded an album and a single in say seventy seven , seventy eight . |
| 8 | Dermot Reeve maybe , but not Ian Terrence Botham , for his days are over as surely as Dr W. G. Grace 's . |
| 9 | Farm animals which are kept in bare pens are generally worse off than farm animals which are kept in pens with straw , both because straw can be used as bedding and because straw is a material which the animal can manipulate . |
| 10 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 11 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 12 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 13 | In fact , positive consequences are not always enough when used alone . |
| 14 | You 're only here once so you 've got to try and make the most of it and enjoy life to the full . ’ |
| 15 | We 're only together tonight because you put us both on the same invitation . |
| 16 | As long as we 're not worse off than what we were before we moved . |
| 17 | Well what they do they make sure that you 're not better off when you 're not working than you are working |
| 18 | But they 're still better off than the other Arabs , the ones that do n't work for the French . |
| 19 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 20 | You 're hardly ever up before I go to work . |
| 21 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 22 | They are usually slightly longer than broad and contiguous throughout their length . |
| 23 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 24 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 25 | It is easy to become complacent and just feel that most of the words are probably right even when they are n't . |
| 26 | The date of the Withington and Newton St. Loe mosaics remains unclear , but , on stylistic grounds the author would assign them also to the fourth century ( pace Smith 1969 , 100 ) : they are probably slightly later than the above pavements ( section 4.3 ) but almost certainly are before 340 . |
| 27 | As a result , adjusted earnings are up very helpfully as you can see . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been up so late since Studio 54 closed , ’ confessed socialite Nan Kempner during a recent encounter . |
| 29 | In Spain , linear state subsidies for building led to meandering lines ( Carr 1982 : 266 ) with the result that today , railway routes are often appreciably longer than the competing road route . |
| 30 | ‘ It could have been as long ago as last Christmas , ’ he said . |