Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson whose own title defence is in tatters , admitted : ‘ There are eight or so teams up there , but there is no indication that any of them are putting together the kind of run that looks ominous ‘ Blackburn showed the sort of confidence against us that comes from the feeling that you have got a chance . |
| 2 | Scuba diving courses are popular and even snorkelers will see a wide range of unusual creatures , such as flying fish , sea-horses , sword and hammer fish in these deep blue waters . |
| 3 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 4 | Just over one in ten ( 11 per cent ) fall into the elite ‘ Captain ’ category ; nearly threequarters ( 72 per cent ) are male and often Southerners . |
| 5 | Although capping salaries is part of what they all want , many owners are convinced that only television can provide a long-term solution to the game 's financial problems . |
| 6 | There are 1500 or so bronze casts of Degas ' sculpture , not one cast in his lifetime |
| 7 | Others are witty or deliberately kitsch . |
| 8 | ‘ Penny is in and out every few minutes at present , and we do n't want her to guess that we 're more than just owner and programme manager , do we ? ’ |
| 9 | Made from palm and coconut oils they 're gentle and usually fragrance free . |
| 10 | In our example , x 29 , x 59 and x 97 are basic and so nodes 2 , 5 and 7 are assigned to the second generation and P(2) = P(5) = P(7) = 9 . |
| 11 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 12 | I seem to remember an American thesis writer who crashed to the ground over this contorted problem , and I am sure that both Worsley and Sir John Summerson ( who contributes an elegant introduction to Mansbridge 's book ) would concur that mystery still surrounds the problem of Nash the draughtsman . |
| 13 | He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 14 | For Craigendarroch 's lodges are more than just holiday homes . |
| 15 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 16 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 17 | You 'll find there are more than just sausages . ’ |
| 18 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 19 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 20 | Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’ |
| 21 | She was supposed to be pregnant and perhaps Scotland might still get its heir but would it be a male prince and who would protect him over the coming years ? |
| 22 | The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom . |
| 23 | I still remain to be convinced that either Cantona ( or McAllister for that matter ) can stand up and be counted when the crunch matches come around . |
| 24 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 25 | Peter Reid 's City team — who will be unchanged if neither Niall Quinn nor Keith Curle show reactions to the hamstring problems they defied to play against Leeds — need little motivating , though . |
| 26 | I am sure we all have one objective in mind , which is how we can best serve our members , and I 'm sure that both Richard and I are of the same view on this . |
| 27 | Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ? |
| 28 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 29 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 30 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |