Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss . |
| 2 | Unless the United Nations is prepared actually physically to keep the peace , the federal forces have every incentive to maintain military operations against Croatia . |
| 3 | In east Africa wage-paid labour was confined almost entirely to entrepôt ports such as Mombasa and Zanzibar . |
| 4 | We saw that this term was used very generally to describe various sorts of tension which arise in social practices , or between them , and which may provoke changes in the structure of society . |
| 5 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 6 | Sadly , the Board was virtually alone in this support , and to understand why , we must return for a moment to the sixties , when the test was used almost exclusively to curb the spread of erotica . |
| 7 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 8 | My reading of Article 5 of the treaty is that nuclear weapons are defined broadly enough to cover missile warheads , bombs , depth charges , torpedoes or mines , in whatever form , whether armed or not . |
| 9 | The outlet of a P-trap or bottle trap is angled slightly downwards to allow for this . |
| 10 | The unrest was taken sufficiently seriously to prompt vigorous attempts by senior members of the government to dampen this constant speculation about the leadership : for example , Sir Geoffrey Howe , among others , publicly denied that there had been any Cabinet-level discussion about the Prime Minister standing down . |
| 11 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 12 | Examinations are designed very largely to secure ease of marking since skilled markers are limited , and to ensure that , as far as possible , justice is seen to be one and that instances ( and accusations ) of nepotism or corruption are kept to a minimum . |
| 13 | Kaifu also expressed his determination " not to let history repeat itself " and stated that " the Japanese people are resolved never again to repeat those actions which had tragic consequences " . |
| 14 | With the advent of Verbivore , however , people are forced once again to rely on their own cognitive and creative resources . |
| 15 | All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output . |
| 16 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 17 | Note 2.4.4 The rather pedantic observation that ( ab ) c = a(bc) is included here only to emphasise that the associativity of unc depends heavily on that of . |
| 18 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 19 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |
| 20 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 21 | Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada , whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers . |
| 22 | The idea was that this was a way of ironing out minor disputes , but the clause was worded widely enough to cover a dispute arising out of wrongful termination of the contract . |
| 23 | Recalling Marshall McLuhan 's dictum that ‘ the medium is the message ’ , the novel posits the possibility of an obligatory shift in the primary medium of communication from oral and cybernetic forms to a ‘ secondary literacy ’ in which the world is required once again to rely on the written word . |
| 24 | Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities . |
| 25 | We can convey cereals at up to 700 tph but malt is loaded more slowly to ensure minimum damage . |
| 26 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology . |
| 28 | Smells are employed most widely to find food , but they also help many animals and plants to avoid being eaten . |
| 29 | Fires are lit once again to subdue and intimidate the elephants . |
| 30 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |