Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , a compromise : management can never be wholly altruistic or spotlessly ethical , but the harm done to others can be minimised . |
| 2 | In the first instance , her comment that ‘ ethnic and sexual minorities were pandered to ’ I found to be blatantly racist and most offensive . |
| 3 | In preparations for post-war construction , Resistance figures had planned to ban the continued publication of all newspapers that had collaborated and to create a press that would be economically viable as well as politically free and pluralist : there should be no repetition of the venality of journalists , the concentration of ownership , the submission to the forces of capital , of the inter-war years . |
| 4 | Such support would be based on the following principles : adjustment should be economically viable as well as socially and politically bearable ; it should conform with long-term development objectives ; it should be based on a joint assessment by the EC and the country concerned ; and it should be undertaken in close co-operation with the international financial institutions ( primarily the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) . |
| 5 | Yes , the three artists will mingle with the guests at the buffet supper which we hope will be by candlelight , and the whole evening will be rather intimate and rather special to people who do come . |
| 6 | Once you 've established that you have the interest of around a dozen parents ( the number can be bigger or smaller , although a circle can be rather unmanageable if too many people are involved ) , decide on a system of allocating sitting ‘ jobs ’ so each parent in the circle gets a fair share . |
| 7 | If the relationship between formal and informal sectors is purposeful and dynamic , these ‘ maps ’ will be rather untidy and always changing . |
| 8 | A quick response heating system may be most satisfactory or indeed radiators backed up with electric convectors . |
| 9 | The introduction of change may be most acceptable and often unnoticeable through new media such as video screens . |
| 10 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 11 | If it is a matter of delicate legal analysis what the best interpretation of the precedents cited in McLoughlin would require in that case , then any answer provides very weak evidence about which decision would be most popular or most beneficial for the future . |
| 12 | As a result , environmental study is virtually neglected in the curriculum in the years when it could be most meaningful and most beneficial , especially to school leavers . |
| 13 | What is theologically and pastorally appropriate in the eastern Mediterranean and the Ukraine can not be theologically wrong and pastorally unsuitable anywhere else . |
| 14 | The textual norms of each genre will further suggest certain options and rule out others that are grammatically acceptable and may , in other genres , be textually acceptable as well . |
| 15 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 16 | It seemed to Susan that she must be terribly drunk or terribly tired . |
| 17 | ‘ Mon dieu ! ’ said the little man , not apparently sure whether to be terribly angry or frightfully cross , ‘ Nicole ! ’ |
| 18 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 19 | In fact many women said it was kinder to cry than to be angry because , they claimed , if they said what they were really thinking their husbands would be so incredulous and so humiliated that the marriage would not survive . |
| 20 | As a male chainworker commented to Commissioner on the Factory Acts in 1876 : ‘ I should advocate their [ women 's ] time should be so limited as neither to interfere with their own health and morals or with our wages ’ . |
| 21 | Shareholders would be unwise to be so trusting and surely have little to lose from the insistence that directors comply with externally monitored rational decision-making procedures . |
| 22 | It was ludicrous to be so young and yet a has-been . |
| 23 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 24 | This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will . |
| 25 | You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear for ever . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , one of the biggest , says Thomas Davenport , a management consultant with Ernst & Young and one of the earliest advocates of re-engineering , is a company 's existing computer system , which can be so complex and yet so central to the firm 's business that it is too expensive and too risky to scrap entirely ( though not always — see box ) . |
| 27 | Strange how they can be so strange and then , quite suddenly , so normal . |
| 28 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 29 | Carrie felt impatient with her — no grown-up should be so weak and so silly — but she was sorry as well . |
| 30 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |