Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Does the Minister agree that we are long past the stage of apportioning blame ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would n't be in here , quotations are only normally the question from a pre-suppliers ? |
| 10 | Such accounts of the British ‘ constitution ’ are only superficially the result of the absence of a constitutional document . |
| 11 | And , as had been so memorably the case with the Punjab , the proof of the pudding was found to be in the eating . |
| 12 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am just not the type to keep playing tennis at 28 or 29 , ’ the 23-year-old revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | Such piscatorial matters are not normally the column 's province , of course . |
| 15 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 16 | 3.2 Geographical extent Important factors to be considered when examining a geographical area are not simply the distance involved ( usually a radial measurement from a given place ) but the character of the area , the ease of travel/communication and the character of the business in question . |
| 17 | So far , so good , but finding a set of correlations of this sort still says nothing about whether they are necessarily part of the memory formation process unless I can find a way of showing that they are not simply the aftermath of the unpleasant experience of tasting the bitter bead ; that is , I must meet my own third , reductionist criterion . |
| 18 | First , the reasons for the expansion of the social services are not simply the desire and anxiety of successive governments to reduce unemployment , cheaply and speedily , as Bacon and Eltis claim . |
| 19 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 20 | These values are not primarily the pursuit of small amounts of money paid in a weekly wage . |
| 21 | In addition , although not technically unfit , a house can still be very unsuitable for the needs of its occupants in terms of accommodation and access to jobs and services , aspects that are not generally the subject of legislation . |
| 22 | But they are not even the heart of it . |
| 23 | Tiny gardens are not just the perogative of new housing estates . |
| 24 | His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome , but threaten to undermine it . |
| 25 | The politics of the inner city problem are not just the surface manifestation of economic imperatives ; here there is no straightforward linear determination of superstructure by base . |
| 26 | This concept has the advantage of stressing that people 's perceptions and beliefs are not just the inheritance of a shared ethnic descent , but are rooted in broader economic structures and material interests . |
| 27 | Disused mineral workings are not just the adventure playground of the young and old but provide many recreational needs . |
| 28 | The economics of maintaining a safe environment are not just the concern of government for , through taxation , individuals contribute to the national purse . |
| 29 | Their 10-wicket trouncing of England in the deciding Cornhill Test at the Oval yesterday more than confirmed they are not just the world 's one-day cricket kings . |
| 30 | In effect Bleach are not just the antithesis of The Chart Show , but a challenge to latterday Designer Credibility . |