Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 2 | Ways into reading text , strategies for coping with monolithic texts as well as texts considered to be of less " value " are arguably as vital a part of the educational process as any learning about text . |
| 3 | It 's been downhill since those blokes who did n't play on Frankie Goes To Hollywood went . |
| 4 | The results have , sometimes , been less than spectacular . |
| 5 | ‘ We did attempt to do that in the early stages , for example with Ascom Timeplex , but generally what 's happened is that the distribution relationships have been less than perfect , ’ explains Howard . |
| 6 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 7 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 8 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 9 | We made love again , and we must have been tired , because it ca n't have been less than two hours later that I woke up . |
| 10 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 11 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 12 | Her parting exchange with Rain had been less than friendly . |
| 13 | An uninformed reader of ‘ Safety : the perils of self-regulation ’ might be forgiven for concluding that the powers that be and their executive arm , the Health and Safety Executive , had been less than wholehearted in promoting and enforcing safety ( Talking Point , 12 January ) . |
| 14 | Although some bonuses have been paid they have been less than 1 per cent . |
| 15 | In keeping with that statement growth in undergraduate numbers over the past few years has been less than 1 per cent a year . |
| 16 | Rangers ' early season form has been less than inspiring but manager Walter Smith has put most of the team 's problems down to so many personnel changes caused by a succession of injuries . |
| 17 | The variation in salinity at a depth of 1,600m has been less than standard deviations from the 1975–78 mean . |
| 18 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 19 | Fresh , though he could n't have been less than thirty and Jezrael was still young enough to think that was old . |
| 20 | While it is good to see statutory and voluntary bodies asking themselves , ‘ what are we doing about West Belfast ? ’ the responses have been less than convincing . |
| 21 | Once more , the collection of interest payments had been less than efficient . |
| 22 | Prior to his dismissal Garrett had commissioned Vander Schaaf to investigate allegations that the Navy 's own investigation of the matter had been less than thorough . |
| 23 | Basing themselves at York might have suited their training schedules and their travel arrangements , but it has been less than ideal for their public relations . |
| 24 | Where the information supplied to the Council has been less than adequate , discussions at meetings between representatives of bodies and the Council 's members and officers have been helpful in enabling the Council to obtain more of the information it wishes to have to assist it in determining the grant offer . |
| 25 | Revenue from turnover and income tax and from privatization had been less than expected . |
| 26 | The difficulties had been less than expected . |
| 27 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 28 | People just dropped in , even though many had been less than welcome with some of It 's staff . |
| 29 | As such it was widely interpreted as a personal triumph for Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , whose position as leader of the party had been less than secure since his election in October 1991 . |
| 30 | While the technique ( which combines content with process ) has been well documented , the research on its effectiveness has been less than exciting . |