Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Been on quite a few weeks |
| 2 | If she had n't been dead already the shock of his going to prison would have killed her . |
| 3 | More widespread concern about bank credit risk or the imposition of credit controls on the banking system could stimulate the development of the market , but they are presumably not the routes through which the Bank of England would prefer development to take place . |
| 4 | They went together , they 've been somewhere together the other night . |
| 5 | The solid , silvery bubbles are most probably a species of algae called Sailor 's Eyeballs ( lovely name ! ) , which live in small , harmless colonies . |
| 6 | While men and women under 30 are most often the victims of crime , the impact is greatest upon those over 50 . |
| 7 | The chief candidates for this distinction are most certainly the higher primates , and of them perhaps more especially the near relatives of man , the chimpanzee and gorilla . |
| 8 | In the UK , these are most typically the nationalized industries . |
| 9 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 10 | They are difficult to investigate as the ones carrying out the dealing are obviously not the ones who have access to the inside information . |
| 11 | And so it goes on : cases which are obviously only the tip of the iceberg since they relate to repeated absence caused by serious illness of a relative . |
| 12 | But whereas neurosis is , in a sense , a private affair , affecting mainly the person who suffers from it , delinquency and acting-out of neurotic conflicts are much more the concern of society as a whole and are certainly likely to affect others to a greater degree than is normally true of the symptoms of a conventional neurosis . |
| 13 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 14 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 15 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 16 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
| 17 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 18 | You will be buying fish that have been fully acclimatised to the British seasons , and which are long past the ailments associated with new imports . |
| 19 | We are long past the stage where talk about the curriculum could be left to the academics ; beyond the stage where the views of the professions and the wider society had to be sought . |
| 20 | Does the Minister agree that we are long past the stage of apportioning blame ? |
| 21 | But also at every age , we can do things which are perhaps just a little beyond our reach . |
| 22 | Such opinions have commendable moral tone but they are perhaps not a recipe for electoral success . |
| 23 | It began in fact with what are perhaps still the best crime short stories to be found ; the tales of Sherlock Holmes . |
| 24 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 25 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 26 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 27 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 28 | Strange that this bird sits there and sings While we must only sit and plan Who are so much the higher things — The murder of our fellow man … |
| 29 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 30 | Like a horse and carriage , love and marriage do go together ; but selfishness and self-seeking and the anger generated by violated sensitivities and unmet needs are so often the outer evidence of an increasing inner barrenness . |