Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The whole nature of the stock of teachers has changed and on , I 'm afraid , anybody 's reckoning , there are rather too many of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Is there any legislation or codes of practice covering circular letters of this kind , which are effectively just another form of advertising ? ’ |
| 3 | Had been dead no more than an hour when he was found … |
| 4 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 5 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 6 | There 's been altogether too much guilt — too much pain already . |
| 7 | It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 . |
| 8 | If I am right then this is not a matter of meaning , but of normative justification . |
| 9 | It is important to realise that serious books of this kind , which form the backbone of the libraries and were first laid down by the Victorians , are most often those which are not taken out or ‘ issued ’ at all . |
| 10 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 11 | And we 've been all though this before . |
| 12 | So Andrew , Kevin and Karen are together so that 's alright , then it 's Michelle and Mutty and Paul and it 's Nana and Adrian , my brother 's |
| 13 | Speed , consistency , and the ability to answer questions as they arise are the three great benefits of such a system One of the difficulties which personnel managers encounter whenever they get involved in computerisation is that there are apparently so many options available . |
| 14 | Tam Dalyell 's views on the Brandt Commission 's second report ( Forum , 7 April , p 40 ) are perhaps just another addition to the literature on the subject . |
| 15 | The first is that drowned valleys down to about 90 m ( 300 ft ) are explicable as features related to low glacial sea levels and later drowned , but if they are deeper then this subsidence must have taken place . |
| 16 | At each stage there are only around half a dozen cases in any one year which are the focus of major interest which impinges upon the national press in a sustained manner . |
| 17 | ‘ You are only so much rubbish ! |
| 18 | They 're on a worldwide scale rather than a national scale , but you have to recognise that there are only so many hours in the day in which you can be efficient . |
| 19 | There are only so many things you can sell to someone who merely requires to be kept warm and dry as they walk up a hill . |
| 20 | There are only so many different varieties of coat colour for moggies , and if the family cat was a tabby , or a black cat with a white flash on its chest , then the owners are not to be blamed for thinking that their long-lost friend has finally found its way home . |
| 21 | There are only so many people you can watch jumping up and down , and only so many slogans you can be bombarded with before the brain goes into defensive shutdown . |
| 22 | There are only so many ways to describe a pitch and there is very little need to alter descriptions if the existing ones work perfectly well , thus cutting down on the number of major rewrites required . |
| 23 | It takes just five seconds for him to realize that there are only so many hours in the working day to establish the key priorities and apply his mind to them . |
| 24 | With a price of $25,000 there are only so many people who can afford the latter ! |
| 25 | This continues until the list consists entirely of tableaux which have been processed , which must eventually happen since there are only finitely many possible tableaux . |
| 26 | They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale . |
| 27 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 28 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 29 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 30 | It was not heavy at all and moving would have been just too much effort . |