Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [subord] [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 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It will probably necessitate reorganising part of the database and , therefore , navigational systems are rather inflexible once the design has been implemented . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | In many cases they are vastly higher than the highest note anybody has heard or can imagine . |
| 8 | The financial costs of incineration , even with high environmental standards , are rarely higher than the costs of recycling . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 13 | Showing the insignia of Neutral deities cuts no ice with Thadeus — such gods are little better than the Proscribed Ones . |
| 14 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 15 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 16 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 17 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 18 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 19 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 20 | The fact that the pieces have lain for 300 years under the sea bed means that they are remarkably fresh while the tight settings have ensured that the inlaid stones are still in place . |
| 21 | Dissonances are most acute when the dissonant voices are close together . |
| 22 | Multi-stage sampling surveys of this kind are most effective when the sampling units are carefully stratified at each stage . |
| 23 | Thus expenditure-reducing policies are most appropriate when the problem is identified as a deteriorating current account balance , whereas tighter monetary policies may be preferable if capital outflows are the source of undesirable pressure on the exchange rate . |
| 24 | These types of errors are most frequent when no language model was used , because there were many more combinations of word sequences that may be confusable . |
| 25 | Placements are most successful when the policy-makers and professionals involved have a positive attitude to exploring integrated care and are willing to support the care-givers and the parents . |
| 26 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 27 | Second , the extremities both of gloom and zeal are most manifest when the Committee considers adult education and , especially , working-class attitudes to literary education . |
| 28 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 29 | Estimates of the numbers in the trade , or of union membership , are necessarily vague before the union began publishing statistics in the mid-1870s . |
| 30 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |