Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To air : are predominantly the volatile organic compounds [ ie , those which evaporate in air at normal temperatures ] . |
| 2 | Knowing I am rather a special person . |
| 3 | I think you are rather a vain girl and thinking too much about your figure . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ he said slowly , still looking at her in that peculiar way , ‘ you really are rather a remarkable person . ’ |
| 5 | We are rather an old congregation , there 's no doubt about it , apart from the here . |
| 6 | There are effectively no vibrational selection rules , so the technique is particularly useful for detecting vibrations that do not appear in either IR or Raman spectra . |
| 7 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 9 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 10 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 11 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 12 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 13 | Good photography or colour reproductions can enhance the quality of a book , but are rarely a crucial factor outside the obvious field of the visual arts . |
| 14 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 15 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 16 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 17 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 18 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 19 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 20 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 21 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
| 22 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 23 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 24 | After all , leg ulcers are overwhelmingly a nursing problem . |
| 25 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
| 26 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 27 | Breton and Wintrobe object to the assumption that the factors which go to make up the bureaucrat 's utility function — salary , ‘ perks ’ , and so on — are necessarily a positive monotonic function of the total budget . |
| 28 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 29 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
| 30 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |