Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a senior British official : ‘ These are rather vague outline ideas , there are no detailed proposals . |
| 2 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 3 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 4 | Measurement of h-parameters demands that the input terminals are effectively open circuit with respect to signals while the output terminals are effectively short circuited as far as signals are concerned . |
| 5 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 6 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 7 | Certainly there are commercially available recognition units which can be plugged into home computers but they are very unsophisticated . |
| 8 | He says there are vastly more vehicle miles travelled on the road system with 3 carrier bags of shopping in the back of a car than there is with 38 tons of shopping being delivered to the supermarket in a lorry . |
| 9 | I mean there , there would have been presumably enormous opposition to that and in the process output would have almost certainly fallen an an and er there were no resources for mechanization so collectivization as a short-term option is really out . |
| 10 | Clay figurines are also made , but they are mostly styleless work ( as are some bronzes ) , toys or cheap offerings . |
| 11 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 12 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 13 | Some US congressmen believe that the Japanese are secretly developing test-tube fusion technology and that the US is already losing the race for the economic bonanza of all time . |
| 14 | ‘ You can not see it , you can not measure it by instrumentation , but there are incredibly powerful air currents up in the stratosphere which can move at anything up to 300 mph . |
| 15 | The general situation had been most unsatisfactory right from the start in 191 7 , even amongst the proletariat of Petrograd , the core of Bolshevik support . |
| 16 | There has been most impressive progress in Sheffield . |
| 17 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 18 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
| 19 | There are rarely early warning systems for other aspects of the organisation . |
| 20 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 21 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 22 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 23 | The island has always been predominantly Roman Catholic , ever since the days of the first settlers , and it is still so today . |
| 24 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 25 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 26 | The South Korean government has been remarkably low key in its response , apparently intent not to inflame the situation . |
| 27 | For the second of the historical periods mentioned ( 1538–1801 ) the following books ( all available in paperback ) are most useful background texts : Sixteenth Century England by Joyce Youings ( London 1984 ) , English Society in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Spufford ( 1985 ) , and English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter ( London 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Comparing it with my friends who I 've worked with for years , who are most expensive sort of fair enough . |
| 29 | Tropical bats and other mammals , particularly primates , and also lizards , may take fleshy fruits from trees , and other mammals and reptiles may disperse fallen fruits , but birds are most important overall , and bird dispersal was probably critical in the advance of the angiosperms . |
| 30 | Even allowing for the fact that television programmes are necessarily selective choosing shocking cases to illustrate the point , and also allowing for the evident confusion with the programme caused by pre-1 April material combined with a post-1 April dialogue , some disturbing situations were illustrated . |