Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 2 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 3 | The normal Chinese day starts at 8 a.m. , and of course is 6 days working a week , so we are rather lucky that the course leaders have allowed us to start at 8.30 . |
| 4 | Again this assumption is rather gross as the social and health care needs of the two age groups are rather different and the costs of supporting these two age groups are also very different . |
| 5 | It will probably necessitate reorganising part of the database and , therefore , navigational systems are rather inflexible once the design has been implemented . |
| 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 | We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside . |
| 8 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 9 | In writing this I am acutely aware that the energy of commitment fuelled by the gravity of the situation in the Philippines has once more taken a hold of me . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's when things are economically difficult that the time is right to mount operations like this ’ he said . |
| 11 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 12 | Manufacturers are acutely aware that the only way of stopping parallel trade in the Community is uniform pricing . |
| 13 | Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man . |
| 14 | If that departure has not been wholly amicable and an adjustment arises which increases an individual 's tax liability , there is the prospect of prolonged discussions with former partners and possibly problems of collectability as far as the Revenue is concerned . |
| 15 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 16 | Their environments are locally various and the types are often divided from each other by the topography of the country , so that several different regional types have developed over the years . |
| 17 | Most hakims are medically unqualified and the main conditions they treat are fatigue and depression , digestive disorders , psychosexual problems , and skin conditions . |
| 18 | The chief lesson you gather is that the South African police are remarkably well-informed and the ANC recruitment procedure sadly lax . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dissonances are most acute when the dissonant voices are close together . |
| 21 | Multi-stage sampling surveys of this kind are most effective when the sampling units are carefully stratified at each stage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 26 | That it tends to be the lower status , less experienced teachers whose attitudes are most positive and the longest serving , institutionally most powerful teachers who are the most negative may explain why this willingness apparently bears so little fruit . |
| 27 | Antibiotics and more importantly intravenous fluid therapy are most important and the only way to save serious cases . |
| 28 | We are most worried that the Burmese Government have disregarded not only the United Nations Commission on Human Rights but the foreign minister of the Philippines who went to Burma on behalf of the Association of South-East Asian Nations but was allowed to make representations only on his own behalf . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sir John , one of the most respected Conservative back-benchers in the Commons , added : ‘ I am personally glad that the air has been cleared but sorry . |