Example sentences of "be [subord] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 2 | Now the system at the moment seems to be er suggested by the government that V A T should go up and those that really need the money will be if not wholly , mainly compensated , they will of course get another rise if the cost of living goes up because their pensions will go up . |
| 3 | One of the reasons for her unpopularity could be because right now she — and only she — has the full confidence of Kurt Cobain , the man without whom Nirvana ca n't function . |
| 4 | The French kings were as yet too weak to use the arrière-ban , if they had wished to , save in quite exceptional circumstances , as in 1124 . |
| 5 | The head says the figures explain more about where a school is than how well it educates |
| 6 | As I have a real a real concern that as soon as that happens er , er the sch stuff is , is if often just dumped on the side of the road and I suspect that 's more to do with commercial operators than , than to do with the private householders and it and it and it and it , it , it 's it does seem er to me that er , er that , that issue needs er needs to be addressed as well . |
| 7 | This is because not only does the ruler get bigger as you go up , but also the size of your eyes . |
| 8 | The reason I pressed Dr Goode on the degree to which he could and should rely on Dr Carrington 's decision is because both morally and legally , such a decision can be relied upon only if made by someone who 's lucid and fully aware of what he 's doing . |
| 9 | This is because more recently reconnected field lines are always closer to the open/closed field line boundary which lies at the equatorward edge of the cusp . |
| 10 | This is because only about 40 per cent of total costs are ‘ specific ’ to particular sectors ; the rest represents facilities , such as track , signalling and administration , that are shared by the different sectors . |
| 11 | Part of the reason for that is because sometimes even the press gets it wrong , or at least we used to get it wrong . |
| 12 | The reason I 'd put pu pupil comment where it is , is because so far as I was concerned the top half of that I was gon na , was gon na be filled in by staff it is a report . |
| 13 | The rise of modern Universities has accredited an ambassador of poetry to every important capital of industrialism in the country , and upon his shoulders rests a responsibility greater we think than is as yet generally recognised . |
| 14 | Although the White Paper is as yet just a White Paper and not law , it seems that certain hospitals are being pushed towards ’ opting out ’ . |
| 15 | Learning how to reconcile the conflicting interests of the partners is a new challenge that is as yet imperfectly understood . |
| 16 | Many conventional doctors and scientists , however , are still reluctant to accept that acupuncture can have therapeutic as well as analgesic effects , and this is at least partly because there is as yet little theoretical explanation of how acupuncture could exert therapeutic — as opposed to analgesic — action . |
| 17 | Indeed , the public 's reception of mass communication content remains an academic problem since there is as yet little substantive evidence which directly links public perceptions , actions , and reactions purely and simply to media content . |
| 18 | The ergonomics approach to their use is shown in Fig. 2.4 but it must be admitted that this is as yet rarely followed in practice . |
| 19 | The area is as yet largely untouched by the ugliness of mass afforestation and still a paradise for lovers of the outdoors . |
| 20 | The huge value of a band of instrumentalists is as yet largely unexploited by the Church . |
| 21 | While discussion of a corporate information system is as yet largely speculative , our experience of the Payroll/Personnel database system over the last three years has given rise to various working hypotheses of relevance to management in general and the personnel function in particular . |
| 22 | It is as yet far from complete , with only half a dozen of the country 's forty-plus aerodromes included , but subscribers are promised that the remainder will be issued them as soon as possible . |
| 23 | This charming 17th century mansion is as yet relatively undiscovered , so you can enjoy the beauty of its gardens , the walks by ancient oaks and quiet lake without the pressure of people . |
| 24 | In the first place the penetration of robots , numerically controlled machine tools , and other microelectronic-based equipment in British industry is as yet very limited . |
| 25 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 26 | There is as yet only an embryonic realisation of the social and economic costs of the " efficient factory " in terms of structural unemployment , frantic energy consumption , loss of job satisfaction and the squandering of some of society 's most precious assets , which are the skill , ingenuity , creativity and enthusiasm of ordinary people . |
| 27 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 28 | Such middle ground is as yet quite undefined in Nigeria , extremes being apparent on all sides . |
| 29 | Although this fifth category is as yet insufficiently developed Terjung ( 1976 ) argued that it is increasingly appropriate as a research level for geographer climatologists . |
| 30 | There are files of correspondence , rentals and accounts relating to the several divisions of the estate ; approximately 500 maps ( many being older items previously overlooked ) ; boxes on a miscellany of topics from industry and agriculture to education and churches ; and much that is as yet totally unsorted . |