Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The causes of weakness in adhesion are rather less understood at present than they are in cohesion but no doubt they are generally similar in character .
2 The most highly specialized crustacea are probably the barnacles ( Cirripedia ) and individual barnacle plates are rather commonly encountered in rocks of Cretaceous age and younger .
3 Many researchers come to the electronic version of the BL catalogue with experience of its printed version , and so are arguably more fitted by experience to know its idiosyncrasies and quirks .
4 Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards .
5 This has been most clearly shown for lung tissue but smoking related adducts have also been described in a number of other tissues for which smoking has been implicated as a cancer risk factor .
6 ‘ These two submissions have been most impressively argued by Mr. Lloyd for the local health authority .
7 Letters to ministers have been most frequently used by Sub-Committee E , to draw to the Government 's attention their views of the correct legal base for a Commission proposal .
8 Cases have been most frequently reported in dogs houses in kennels with damp hay or straw bedding and the lesions , usually confined to areas of the body in contact with the ground , show hair loss , erythema , and pustule formation if infected with bacteria .
9 Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression .
10 The next set of materials , house forms , has been most fully studied by Glassie in an analysis of eighteenth-century extant folk housing in Middle Virginia .
11 Barthes 's caveats against recuperation have been most convincingly demonstrated by Stephen Heath ( 1972 ) who is critical of the tendency towards naturalization : the radical experience of the nouveau roman is undermined when the novels are subjected to reductive readings of the psychologizing variety enacted by Morrissette , however much these may be encouraged by the novelists themselves .
12 They have been most commonly used for students in the humanities and social science disciplines .
13 Severe , sometimes fatal , hepatitis has been most commonly reported in association iwth the use of diclofenac and sulindac , Although fatalities have also been reported with the use of naproxen and indomethacin .
14 Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans .
15 Some general managers had been rather unfairly linked with cost containment and cutbacks .
16 Some students felt they had been rather hard pressed in relation to their knowledge of chemistry , but Coleman rightly said that a properly educated gentleman could be expected to understand the general principles and applications of chemical science .
17 Coleman seems to have been rather silently supported by Sewell as assistant professor .
18 Using a bar code reader and a suitable computer system greatly speeds things up of course , and the books of codes are presumably only needed for reference and checking purposes .
19 The modern paradox , that the areas of Yugoslavia which are most richly endowed with mineral resources and other industrial raw materials are the least economically developed , can only be understood in the context of the long centuries of neglect from which Yugoslavia south of the Danube-Sava line suffered during the Ottoman period .
20 Looms are most frequently indicated by loom-weights , annular in form , for weighing down the warp threads on upright looms ; they are occasionally found in rows in the base of sunken buildings where they may have fallen or been taken off the loom , or originally stacked in a column .
21 Early mouse embryos and their component cells are most easily manipulated during fixation and immunocytological staining if stuck down to coverslips .
22 First , that wise choices about health are most easily made by people who feel good about themselves and are able to talk to their partners .
23 Variants of binary variables ( which are implicitly assumed to be discrete ) are most easily handled as percentages ; table 5.1 for example lists zero realizations of ( h ) as a percentage of the total number of occurrences of both variants .
24 As many parts of the brain contain cells of varying size , which may not all be involved in the same functions , biases of this sort may determine which functions are most strongly associated with unit activity .
25 They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) .
26 Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament .
27 It must be recognized that Donna Landry 's views on Leapor are most nearly justified in relation to this piece .
28 The findings observed in this study are most probably related to differences in the fat composition of the diets .
29 For the purposes of a general survey , changes in various biological groups through time are most usefully analysed in terms of diversity ( or , more strictly , taxonomic richness ) , and changes in spatial distribution by the amount of provinciality or endemism .
30 They have to be suspended from battens and are most often made from pre-finished , slotted insulation board , polystyrene or fibreglass .
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