Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They are keenly aware the BMA leadership could come under attack from its rank and file . |
2 | Beyond whatever limits of cover are commercially obtainable the choice would seem to lie between limiting liability by agreement ( where this is possiblesee Chapter 2 ) with the client and exposing the private assets of the partners . |
3 | Two-nil up at home against moderate opposition — it would have been downhill all the way for most teams . |
4 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
5 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
6 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
7 | Overwhelmed by Pamella 's beauty , she remembers what Mark Boxer once said to her : ‘ Darling , you are much better the way you are now ; at 40 even the most beautiful women fall apart . ’ |
8 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
9 | As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation . |
10 | When solutions are sufficiently dilute a plot of against c is linear and the third virial coefficients ( B 3 , A 3 , Γ 3 ) can be neglected . |
11 | We are together all the time for weeks and months on end . |
12 | If the solar System is at a special place , then the concept of terrestrial mediocrity ( that we are so ordinary the Universe at large must be just like our neighbourhood ) takes something of a knock . |
13 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
14 | Those palm trees are so funny the way the grow straight up . |
15 | But in the national insurance system , a bottom layer of income ( up to £43 a week ) is only contribution-free for those whose total earnings are below such a level ; once they cross the threshold , they are obliged to pay contributions on the lot . |
16 | Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago . |
17 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
18 | Never had they been so great a power in the country . |
19 | ‘ Never has there been so great a need for the talented people universities can provide and nurture , ’ he says . |
20 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
21 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
22 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
23 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
24 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
25 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
26 | Today 's guardians of the Abbey are just thankful the south transept has n't suffered a similar fate . |
27 | It is n't often that you hear a genuine story of a tail wagging the dog but spreadsheets and personal computers are just such a case . |
28 | The Mamores are just such a group of mountains , containing 11 Munros placed magnificently between Loch Leven and Glen Nevis , and since there is easy access from both north and south you have all manner of decisions to take about where to start and finish , how many to do and in what order . |
29 | You ought to try taking some of them , honestly they 're so easy the exams are , like history , ah , talk about easy , spartan erm , you could G C S E , P E mum |
30 | I mean you know Colin Moore 's such a handful really I mean we 're always worried every time he got the ball . |