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 | Following the left bank of the river , you are rarely out of sight of the water . |
| 3 | A Great White would have been less out of place . |
| 4 | ‘ Sunday : Kids are suddenly back at school tomorrow and have to be labelled . |
| 5 | Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air : Would we have been better off without Home Rule ? |
| 6 | They are much more at home with stimulation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Probation officers are less often in contact with a whole school . |
| 12 | I am perhaps out of line with some of my hon. Friends in that I quite enjoyed the speech made by the Secretary of State for the Environment , who opened the debate for the Government . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Blair took the lead , claiming : ‘ Some young offenders are so out of control and such menaces to society that they are going to have to be put in some form of secure accommodation . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The brutal truth , however , is that some youngsters are so out of control they have to be detained , but that should be the last resort . ’ |
| 19 | the Wailers are so out of time , they 're all just like is just so slow it 's just like exactly the same but like about twenty times slower . |
| 20 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , I shall partially echo Mackie in insisting that many values are only there as part of a shared social construction . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This makes them stand out as new and unfamiliar against the industrial background , as if they are somehow out of place . |
| 28 | When your wrists are momentarily out of sight you can easily slip off the ropes in the manner described . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , the boards are easy neither to find nor follow , but that seems to heighten the anticipation and drama of it all . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |