Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By not addressing these issues school management would be failing to seize the opportunity of LMS and would merely be extending the previous resource practice into the new era . |
| 2 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 3 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 4 | On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S-class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles . |
| 5 | The answer to the last of the three questions should perhaps be put the other way round . |
| 6 | When he reached the age of 19 and married Mary of Gueldres in Holyrood abbey , James could no longer be denied the full authority of kingship . |
| 7 | The British citizen must no longer be denied the fair voting systems enjoyed by the citizens of every other European country . |
| 8 | These celebratory fanfares do n't sound as though they might just be heralding the very advent of Slavonic culture . |
| 9 | For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’ |
| 10 | And they would not be choosing the Communist Party . |
| 11 | The Strathclyde university report stated : ’ The idea of a mature tobacco market ’ — that means a market which can not expand any further ’ can not be supported the key group for the tobacco industry is young smokers . |
| 12 | Put in the language of this chapter , we should not be seeking the Holy Grail in the curriculum or anywhere else , but attempting to create relationships between management and professionality within structures which are good at bringing about change without exhausting or demeaning teachers in the process . |
| 13 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 14 | Could it not be said the overwhelming factor of modern life is the apathy amongst the majority of its members , which should engender concern regarding the way government is designed ? |
| 15 | The Mayor of Whitby , Coun Maurice Hatton , will not be taking the official chain of office when he goes on a pilgrimage to the German town of Kleve on April 30 , because of its high value . |
| 16 | On the evening of April 15 the PRI announced that it would not be supporting the new government in parliament . |
| 17 | Were it not for the support of sympathetic friends , the residents in our Homes and those who work in our factory could not be given the necessary help and encouragement to overcome their handicap , for we are dependent on voluntary help . |
| 18 | A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal . |
| 19 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 20 | Becky assumed that she would not be seeing the young officer again . |
| 21 | Black says he is happy to stay at the City Ground , and will not be joining the big-name exodus of Forest players which includes Roy Keane , Nigel Clough and Stuart Pearce . |
| 22 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 23 | It can not be proved the virgin birth happened . |
| 24 | Adverse meteorological conditions should not be considered the fundamental cause of smogs since high concentrations of pollution would not arise unless the general level or baseline of pollution in the urban atmosphere was relatively high anyway : there is a limit to the peak pollution value that the atmosphere can produce . |
| 25 | Since they will not be viewing the whole picture comprehensively , since they will perforce be selectively choosing values and acting on limited information , it is all the more important that the reasons why they have chosen a particular course of conduct should be articulated . |
| 26 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 27 | The reader will already be sensing the close relationship between play and story-making ( ‘ storying ’ ) , and between play and reading stories and poems . |
| 28 | The problem can also be stated the other way . |
| 29 | His comment about ‘ that cat Wilson not being able to handle approval ratings like mine ’ can also be turned the other way round . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the Maritime school accept that our forces should be deployed primarily to support the First and Second Pillars , but argue that they must also be given the strategic mobility , equipment , and training to continue Britain 's global role as required by the Third Pillar . |