Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers have pointed out that the Gabcikovo power plant could only be economically viable if a substantial amount of water is diverted . |
| 2 | Every man , woman , and child in the country would own about 100 of them , but garaging them would be no problem as each car would be little bigger than a matchbox . |
| 3 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 4 | They are extremely difficult to hand-hold , which means that a mounting must always be carried around , and it should be rather firmer than a simple attachment to a camera tripod , because the binoculars are inevitably heavy . |
| 5 | But perhaps Charles 's realm was intended to be rather more than a prospective one . |
| 6 | Indignation came to be most heated when a new office was proposed by the Crown . |
| 7 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |
| 8 | The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time . |
| 9 | The Accommodation Office can usually fix you up with somewhere to stay ( especially if you visit during the University summer vacation ) and it will be much cheaper than a hotel ! |
| 10 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 11 | Zhang was not totally opposed to the idea , but some members of the increasingly politicized Guandong Army felt that more radical action to extend Japanese control in Manchuria could be taken if Zhang , known to be somewhat recalcitrant and a far from willing puppet , were out of the way . |
| 12 | It must be immediately obvious that such arguments will be somewhat confused unless a definition of development can be agreed . |
| 13 | Moreover , most of us seem to be so certain that a first edition is really a first edition . |
| 14 | This indicates that if the court 's desire is to protect the public from persons who take vehicles without the owner 's consent , that is by a sense of general deterrence , then this particular criterion of the Criminal Justice Act will not be applicable The question posed for the courts must be whether taking a vehicle without consent can ever , as an individual offence , be so serious that a non-custodial sentence can not be considered . |
| 15 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 16 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 17 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 18 | It noted the possibility that in theory the interests of the partners might be so separated that a blanket restriction on competition would be unreasonable but rejected the contention that the mere fact of administrative departmentalisation could lead to that result . |
| 19 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 20 | So a thirty year old service might be entirely different than a person with ten years service deferring his pension . |
| 21 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 22 | For sublanguage processing this may prove to be extremely useful if a large ( raw ) corpus is available , since the word classification will be specifically for that sublanguage type . |
| 23 | These experiments are , however , still pulsed , and it would be extremely valuable if a true continuous wave all-optical passive resonator system could be developed , to give the sort of experimental impetus that the xenon and helium-xenon lasers have given to laser instabilities . |
| 24 | Oversights can be extremely costly and a microcomputer model carefully constructed will not allow oversights to occur . |
| 25 | Types of property : A middle-terraced dwelling has to be less vulnerable than a secluded detached house . |
| 26 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 27 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 28 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 29 | But there are those who say that , if the Tories are serious , there is an easier way to take more account of what Scots want — one that might be less dramatic than a limited constitutional concession but probably more effective . |
| 30 | It is , however , grouped for other purposes such as local government and it may well be administratively convenient that a town or city , already thus organised , should form one or more parliamentary constituencies , even though some disparities in size as between different constituencies result . |