Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 2 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 3 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 4 | And consequently we was all subject , and you were fined very heavily if you were , if you tore these what's- a-names , blackouts , that 's the name . |
| 5 | They are caught very well since they are travelling at top speed . |
| 6 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 7 | As headteachers reported , boards operated most effectively when it was possible for members to offer constructive criticism which provided an input into the decision-making process of the school . |
| 8 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 9 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 10 | Risk management is made much easier where there is a quality–based culture which emphasises individual responsibility and ownership of problems , and where an atmosphere of ‘ constructive intolerance ’ of avoidable risks has been established . |
| 11 | He notes that successful collusion requires communication between the firms and that this is made much easier if they are able to exchange information about prices , outputs , and costs . |
| 12 | It was doubtful if those two men could have done much worse than he was doing now ! |
| 13 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 14 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 15 | What this approach soon reveals is that you often spend large amounts of time not on the things that matter but on activities which are relatively easy to devote time to , while the more difficult tasks tend to be pushed aside simply because they are more difficult . |
| 16 | And you need done as far as I 'm concerned ! |
| 17 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 18 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 19 | If the bit-wise comparisons match ( and the length is checked more accurately if it is more than 10 ) then the word shape is checked . |
| 20 | But it has to be formulated more precisely if it is not to be confused with other crimes which have the dubious distinction of sharing these aphorismic characteristics . |
| 21 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 22 | Power is used most effectively when it is used unobtrusively . |
| 23 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 24 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 25 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 26 | Less than a quarter of contests ever reach the final , antler pushing stage , and even then the deer stag only pushes its opponent 's antlers rather than trying to spike his softer flanks ; antlers could perhaps be used more dangerously than they are . |
| 27 | In fact it 's probably used more now than it was when it was a school . ’ |
| 28 | Whatever is thought masculine is also valued more highly than whatever is considered feminine . |
| 29 | Moulds do not usually grow fast , and conditions had to be found in which large quantities of Penicillium notatum could be produced as quickly as they were wanted . |
| 30 | The ceremony of innocence was well drowned as far as they were concerned . |