Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an action seems rather cavalier in relation to someone whose feet and ankles are widely believed to have the potential to be valued in seven figures . |
| 2 | They receive a rapturous reception , which is as it should be : here , after all , are the players who have lost just one league game in the previous fifteen months , the players who are widely expected to terrify the rest of the continent in the European Cup , the team with the best strike force and the meanest defence in the First Division . |
| 3 | In the main there has been little work to evaluate the effects of the other demographic and economic factors listed in table 6.2 . |
| 4 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 5 | Wilkins ' proposals , for example , have been widely taken to sanction the teaching of more or less fixed phrases as standard expressions of function ( requesting , inviting , describing , agreeing , disagreeing , etc . ) . |
| 6 | You are rather forced to tell the story as there is n't much else to do ! |
| 7 | Here in Cheshire business men are nervously waiting to meet the business angels is whom hands the future of their company might rest . |
| 8 | The G M B must continue to argue at every at , at every level locally , regionally and nationally to ensure that our members are properly trained to meet the challenges that lie ahead . |
| 9 | The figures should give an indication of the importance which SCOTVEC places on ensuring that centres are properly equipped to tackle the demands of delivering and assessing National Certificate modules : such careful validation of centres — whether by a SCOTVEC team in the case of private centres or by the Director of Education in the case of authority centres — is an important element of the National Certificate 's quality assurance system . |
| 10 | Again , the laws of planetary motion , derived from observations of planetary positions etc. , have been successfully employed to predict the occurrence of eclipses . |
| 11 | It says that third party applications for quantum mechanics , chemistry , structural mechanics and seismic research have been successfully parallelised using the system at its alpha sites . |
| 12 | Laminate theory has also been successfully used to explain the properties of injection-moulded block copolymers . |
| 13 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 14 | We are more likely to lose the substantially greater related fee income if we decide not to continue auditing and are thereby forced to pass the affairs of these clients to those firms who wish to be auditors . |
| 15 | The terms are thereby used to describe the level at which decisions are taken in the management hierarchy . |
| 16 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 17 | The square brackets around Your Majesty in the English translation are presumably meant to alert the reader to the fact that the expression does not occur in the original , or that the translator is ‘ guessing ’ what might fill the subject slot in this case . |
| 18 | Long hair has been delicately feathered to frame the face . |
| 19 | Hotels are constantly striving to improve the level of guest services . |
| 20 | New methods are constantly evolving to meet the needs of businesses , developers , investors , construction companies , government organizations and other project sponsors . |
| 21 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 22 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 23 | As a result , I have never been less tempted to support an Opposition motion , although I assure my hon. Friend who is the Whip on duty that I am never tempted in that direction . |
| 24 | Methods are obviously required to improve the sensitivity of diagnostic biliary cytology . |
| 25 | The shape of the tang and the curved projection are obviously designed to protect the hand against the gouge slipping on the hoof . |
| 26 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 27 | I believe that the secretary of state would have been better advised to market the acceptability of genitourinary medicine clinics rather than to promote a facility that could impair the health of the nation . |
| 28 | Nobody could have been better qualified to construct a consensus , even if it had to be temporary , from the new and angular alternatives that were now being proposed for the future of secondary schooling . |
| 29 | Using the simple principle that the bigger the crowd the better the revenue , either Hong Kong or Japan would have been better suited to host the event . |
| 30 | The election could hardly have been better designed to promote the DUP . |