Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of tests carried out in the North Sea by the Laboratory , Bayne believes that organic pollutants may be having a greater impact on marine life than heavy metals such as lead , mercury and cadmium , which had hitherto been widely blamed for most of the damage . |
| 2 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 3 | Pine-scented products may do this and so are best avoided for this reason . |
| 4 | Each of them is being pumped into the atmosphere in vast amounts : and the reason they are not found in vast amounts is that they are extremely reactive or soluble in water , and so are quickly converted into some other compound , or washed out by rain . |
| 5 | Other women might be able to cope with an affair that was based on passion and nothing else , but she knew herself well enough to realise she could only be permanently scarred by such an involvement . |
| 6 | But there are many other critical value-adding processes which can only be satisfactorily completed by those who know and understand the specific decision-making situation in which the construct will be used . |
| 7 | Tragedy can only be fully explained in such |
| 8 | Despite the recent tremendous advances in synthetic fillings goose or duck down is still favoured by those after good performance , light weight and small pack size . |
| 9 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 10 | The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter . |
| 11 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 12 | The effect of the order of Waite J. , had it not been immediately stayed by this court , might have been to require the health authority to put J. on a ventilator in an intensive care unit , and thereby possibly to deny the benefit of those limited resources to a child who was much more likely than J. to benefit from them . |
| 13 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 14 | In retrospect many Conservatives felt that the ill-fated 1971 Industrial Relations Act had been too ambitious and that the ground had not been adequately prepared for such a sweeping measure . |
| 15 | The appeal raises questions under the Children Act 1989 which have not been previously considered by this court . |
| 16 | Life stories have not been previously used in this way partly because sociologists have been more concerned with problems of deprivation , and oral historians with recapturing the experience of childhood and early adulthood in previous periods . |
| 17 | As we have seen , however , gays have not been well served within this tradition . |
| 18 | The deputy judge refused probate of the 1982 document on the grounds that it had not been duly executed in that , although the amendment by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 allowed a valid signature to be made otherwise than at the foot of the will , it had not altered the requirement that the testator should have made his will before signing it ; and that , in any event , the testator had lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 19 | Existing international agreements , such as the ILO Convention , have not been fully ratified by all member states , and are regarded as inadequate in providing for the needs of the successful creation of the SEM . |
| 20 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 21 | Even after more than fifty years they have not been fully appreciated by many philosophers , and are still the subject of much controversy . |
| 22 | There is no system of health care delivery that has not been adversely affected by this fragmentation of people and their services . |
| 23 | The quiet road on the heath has already been coarsely widened on both sides to form a half mile long car park with Pay and Display ticket machines . |
| 24 | His success could thus be explicitly attributed to that capacity for influence which British administrators had always claimed to possess , but had not normally had the opportunity of conclusively demonstrating . |
| 25 | All associations and relationships declared in one space can thus be subsequently tested in another related space right up to the reference domain . |
| 26 | First , there is the libertarian premiss that a person 's position should not be irremediably worsened by another 's conduct . |
| 27 | It will fail to perform its function of maintaining a stable society if people 's expectations can not be reasonably guaranteed for some time to come . |
| 28 | The fluorescence , as discussed earlier , is a low-magnitude phenomenon , and will not be reliably detected by this method . |
| 29 | If the actions can not be independently observed at all though , this might force the optimal contract to contain some element based on general risk , in order to provide incentives to efficiency . |
| 30 | Chaucer 's art of ambiguity in presenting his Canterbury pilgrims balances the levels at which they are bonded by the literal and figurative goals of their journey and stereotyped by their social functions , with an awareness of an individual reality which can not be adequately contained by either . |