Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why bream beats are most often quite some distance from the margins is difficult to say . |
| 2 | In order to prove this , he needed to determine the distances to these other galaxies , which are so far away that , unlike nearby stars , they really do appear fixed . |
| 3 | I was Mr Chairman as all the budget process have been perhaps so perhaps some budget Direct Committee when in fact . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that there are possibly far too few people in the Chamber and , even more important , far too few in the Smoking Room , the most vital part of the House of Commons ? |
| 5 | And there are still just as many options open to them when looking for a loan . |
| 6 | In our defence we would say that the state 's water supplies are still only around half of what is normal at this time of year , and that many Californians , currently refilling their swimming pools and reflooding their orange groves , may live to regret it . |
| 7 | In Britain pressure groups are probably just as much in evidence as they are in the United States . |
| 8 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 9 | Taxes on companies ' profits are also now far less than they used to be ( down by over a third ) . |
| 10 | There are nearly twice as many military personnel in East Germany per 1,000 of the population . |
| 11 | It is doubtful whether either of these distinctions would bear scrutiny on the broader canvas of moral and social philosophy : the moral thrust of Caldwell is that people are often just as much to blame for failing to think as they are for thinking about their actions and its consequences , and this very argument was applied to rape in the paragraphs above . |
| 12 | Even when there is clearly a need for the service provided , there are often far too few people willing to involve themselves in providing it , so that when the originators leave , the service dies . |
| 13 | They 're not getting it right , and there are really no longer any excuses . ’ |
| 14 | We are now just over half way through our year long programme of fund raising in aid of Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and the efforts of JM employees past and present and their families to raise money for this most worthwhile cause have been quite fantastic . |
| 15 | Employment problems are now perhaps even more of a threat to credit payments than illness — granted that long illness is relatively uncommon among people of credit-using age . |
| 16 | Although there are now far too many centre tables and a head waiter who manages to imitate the late owner 's rudeness without any of his Irish charm , the service is as chummily swift as ever and the house wine a modest £7.75 . |
| 17 | We were extraordinarily disappointed at first about the delay but a cancellation would be just about too much to bear . |
| 18 | I I may not be away very often this summer . |
| 19 | I 'll see you later , I 'll be home probably about half past two . |
| 20 | Yet calculations based on the average number of listeners per set showed Tanganyika 's regular radio audience to be probably just under half a million . |
| 21 | There are almost twice as many remand prisoners as the prison is used to . |
| 22 | I think she must have been quite well off some time , had fallen on really hard times . |
| 23 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 24 | However , Heritage Year , we felt , would simply provide another occasion , of which there were already far too many , for Britain 's architects , town planners and local authorities to pat each other on the back and give themselves awards . |
| 25 | The Jewish population of Berlin also increased and peaked at about 3–4 per cent at the time of World War I. In multi-ethnic Vienna the Jews , though a different and more often stigmatized nationality , were still only yet another nationality . |
| 26 | Her children were both obviously too little to understand more than the tone of her voice , and as she dressed them to go out with her to the shops she was saying " and when Daddy comes home , we 'll show him , shall we ? |
| 27 | In Birmingham , Newton ( 1976 , chs 3 and 4 ) identified over 4,000 organized groups and estimated that there were probably about twice that number in total . |
| 28 | Cable manufacturers and engineers BICC , rated 49 and employing 45 000 , considered that there were probably far too many headhunting firms around , but users could learn by experience and then stick to those they knew best . |
| 29 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
| 30 | There were nearly twice as many accidents at private parties as there were nn er public displays . |