Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 2 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 3 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 4 | The long-standing philosophical controversy into which this topic most obviously fits is the political one about equality . |
| 5 | So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley . |
| 6 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
| 7 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 8 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
| 9 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 10 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 11 | ‘ So Hung is the new T'ang 's man now ? ’ |
| 12 | So listening is an important communication tool . |
| 13 | The vulnerability she had long felt was the open heart she had tried to close as soon as she looked into those powerful eyes . |
| 14 | Daily brushing is the only solution . |
| 15 | The sudden impact of being in a situation of which you have long dreamed is a temporary high , soon destroyed by the dread possibility of them all going away again . |
| 16 | There is rather a lot of evidence that what laymen especially valued was the propitiatory function with God of beautiful worship , with splendid chants , vestments woven by the most skilful women , and lavish expenditure of gold on the book covers seen in church and on the altar crosses . |
| 17 | This is not simple mimicry , which would only entail being the same bright colour as a distasteful species . |
| 18 | So vot 's ze bad news ? ’ |
| 19 | Better preserved are the Collegiate church of SS . |
| 20 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 21 | When we faint we return to normal breathing and so fainting is a fail-safe mechanism for hyperventilation control . |
| 22 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 23 | Indeed , so marked was the Judaic orientation of the Celtic Church that it is on record as having been explicitly accused of Judaism , and its adherents of being Jews . |
| 24 | As this met the requirements of the hotel , serving customers would merely have been a needless waste of effort and resources which could be profitably siphoned off elsewhere . |
| 25 | Maybe I was worried that someone else would read my diary , but if so this worry could only have been a slight one : I was much too careful to afford anyone the opportunity to snoop . |
| 26 | Such an equilibrium could only have been a temporary one , being based upon the fear of a common enemy , rather than on a positive material joint interest . |
| 27 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 28 | For these , it seems obvious , Hitler 's public association with the radical ‘ solution of the Jewish Question ’ and the linking of the Führer to the widespread knowledge and rumours of the extermination of the Jews in the east , can only have been a further negative feature of his image . |
| 29 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 30 | The most important would obviously have been the particular use of a vessel in the pantry or kitchen , on the dining table , or for drinking . |