Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some of the South American ones are rather more like opera , than National Anthems , erm , and of course , sometimes you come across er tunes , which are I suppose , Anthems . |
| 2 | They are much more at home with stimulation . |
| 3 | Greenaway 's obsessively elaborating and allusive aesthetics have always been strangely at odds with his reductive philosophy , but the insistent paranoid patterns — lists , correspondences , arcane games — which in earlier films served to bind them together are much less in evidence in the new film . |
| 4 | All of them things are all right in peacetime — we like to have ceremonies and royal robes — but now it 's up to us ali — not Kings and Queens . ’ |
| 5 | Saunders and Houghton are together now at Villa , along with Steve Staunton , who left the year before because nobody foresaw how Liverpool might need his ability to cover three positions . |
| 6 | Probation officers are less often in contact with a whole school . |
| 7 | They may , perhaps , legitimately be so viewed when sexual satisfaction becomes totally dependent upon them to a point at which they take the place of the interpersonal psycho-genital stimuli to which most of us are subject ; or , as in one or two instances , when they are so grossly in departure from presently accepted norms that no correlation of them with accepted stimuli and practices is possible . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is argued , the needs and wants of a less developed country are so far in advance of that country 's productive capacity that it is useless to waste resources focusing on them . |
| 9 | As the creation of space is the primary concern , it is not surprising the interests of developers and of the well-being of cities are so often in conflict . |
| 10 | Many poor countries are so deeply in hock that they end up borrowing just to pay interest on their initial debts : the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks . ’ |
| 11 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 12 | The Lyle family took out the lease in 1920 and spent their own money on the restoration of Barrington Court and the creation of the Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens , which are only partly on Trust owned land . |
| 13 | However , I shall partially echo Mackie in insisting that many values are only there as part of a shared social construction . |
| 14 | And so , although Laura would have liked to put her university degree to some good use , she had been so madly in love with her husband that she had willingly bowed to his wishes . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it awoke an unexpected flood of tenderness towards him in her , because it made him so very human , this man of whom she had once been so deeply in awe and whose power over her still unnerved her when she reflected on the realities of their relationship . |
| 16 | Well , it just has not happened , and when they have decided on a theme , it has been so late at night that Ministers have not been told , ’ said one disgruntled insider . |
| 17 | Here again I learnt to admire and like these people , with whom I had been so recently at war , and to see clearly both the differences and the similarities between people of different nationalities and the fantastic ability of people to respond to leadership tuned to their needs . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , the boards are easy neither to find nor follow , but that seems to heighten the anticipation and drama of it all . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , the more snow , the more avalanches come down on to roads and into the valleys , but it is skiers who are normally most at risk . ’ |
| 20 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 21 | but he sort of pooh-poohed it and sort of said well you know , we 're getting a bit to old for all this modern sophistication of computers and so on , well I said well quite frankly I am not totally in agreement with you , because as you probably know Clyde was looking into a program which will could alleviate a lot |
| 22 | Victoria thinks that I am not sufficiently in love with her to want children . |
| 23 | Although there are few certainties in the headhunting business , those firms which survived the 1970s are largely still in existence , and will probably continue to prosper , through building up a loyal client base . |
| 24 | Because such systems do not take into account the variation in individuals , they are generally only of interest to the classicist . |
| 25 | Because such systems do not take into account the variation in individuals , they are generally only of interest to the classicist . |
| 26 | Before the final curtain some teams had registered and paid their deposit for the 1994 tournament to be held in Birmingham , preparations for which are already well under way . |
| 27 | There is a long way to go as only 350 tonnes were collected during 1990 — but plans are already underway to gear up collection across the country . |
| 28 | Town and the others bring in branded drugs which are already legally on sale in Britain . |
| 29 | The explanations are not flatly in conflict but neither are they compatible — a nuanced matter which suggests that facts and interpretations can not be kept apart . |
| 30 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |