Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 2 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 3 | The cashier holds the other key and the safe deposit box can only be opened if both locks are operated at the same time . |
| 4 | Night work for women could , however , only be introduced if both employers ' and employees ' representatives for the relevant industry in a given country reached agreement on conditions . |
| 5 | It may perhaps be questioned whether such restrictions were necessary , since a procession is capable of causing disruption whatever the purpose of those organising it may happen to be . |
| 6 | First we want to ask anyway whether there is n't likely always to be some truth which , if it alone were added and all others excluded , would defeat my justification . |
| 7 | Although seismic acquisition is at an early stage a number of attractive leads have already been recognised and these leads will be matured and tested during 1993 . |
| 8 | It has already been noted that most models have a view of politicians as people who follow overly narrow self-interested behaviour to the detriment of interests of the electorate and presumably their own long-run reputations . |
| 9 | This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people . |
| 10 | It can scarcely be claimed that these questions have yet been answered in such a manner as to transform Marx 's very general model into a systematic and well-supported theory of historical development . |
| 11 | He went on to explain that the rules of the game could easily be encompassed if some rooms were left without windows , and if the facades did not accurately represent the layout of the interior . |
| 12 | An animal sheltering in them can only too easily be cornered and many hole-dwellers take steps to reduce that risk . |
| 13 | Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench . |
| 14 | ’ We have no policy on single-sex swimming , as it has never been an issue before and it has always been assumed that all children would swim together . ’ |
| 15 | Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from . |
| 16 | Equally important , it must always be emphasised that all approaches , here as elsewhere , are underpinned by a series of ideological assumptions and arguments . |
| 17 | It has also been said that such activities can help to raise the general level of energy of members of the household , the depletion of which may often show itself as a succession of minor illnesses . |
| 18 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 19 | Regional terminals will also be developed although many critics believe that British Rail 's plans in this area are over-cautious . |
| 20 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |
| 21 | It may also be argued that some limits to growth , which Hirsch ( 1977 ) called ‘ social limits ’ , are already operating . |
| 22 | It can also be used when several results have already been found but people are unable to proceed further to a generalisation ; for instance , they may have failed to spot a linear relationship or a well-known number-sequence in their results . |
| 23 | It may also be shown that these transformations include both the Ehlers transformation and the rotation described in previous sections . |
| 24 | As far as I am aware all manual posts within your Department have now been assimilated and all appeals have been dealt with . |
| 25 | It has now been decided that both clubs will play on the Wednesday with 7.45 kick-offs . |
| 26 | Staff at UCCA say the fault has now been corrected but all applications made before November are being double checked . |
| 27 | It has often been assumed that these figures were simply invented , and are evidence that the Bible is historically unreliable . |
| 28 | Moreover , while ‘ ideology ’ retains , from the weight of linguistic usage , the sense of organized beliefs ( whether formal and conscious or pervasive and dissolved ) , it can often be supposed that such systems are the true origin of all cultural ( and indeed other social ) production . |
| 29 | It can now be seen that these pieces of equipment constitute a basic gym around which routines for both beginners and advanced trainers can be structured . |
| 30 | The contribution of the informal care sector , particularly the family , is now being acknowledged and some attempts are being made to interweave the informal care and the formal provision more closely together . |