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

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31 The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable .
32 The chlorophyll traps are left temporarily positively charged a ( so making them chemically highly reactive ) while the electrons are put to use in synthesising NADPH and ATP on the other side of the membrane .
33 Having the crust to attempt a poem in 100 or 120 cantos long after all mankind has been commanded never again to attempt a poem of any length , I have to stagger as I can .
34 Those who now complain that these approvals were given too quickly overlook the sense of crisis which the spread of AIDS has engendered over the past decade , not to mention the eagerness of all concerned to match the pathos of those infected with HIV with anything that might be an effective medicine .
35 The failure to recall the current gear suggests that gear changing often does take place without a specific episodic memory being formed , in fact it is likely that this is the normal state of affairs , the relative infrequency of the failure being reported probably simply reflects the fact that the need for conscious awareness of the current gear is itself rare .
36 The successful birds had two young which were feathered well enough to show the black bar along the grey wings which distinguishes immature kittiwakes .
37 When last read , the new regulations now being hatched quite rightly make the process of requalifying just as unattractive and that will drop the entire issue firmly back into the lap of player recruitment within this country , with all that entails .
38 Furthermore , new teachers were not being trained fast enough to replace the trained teachers who were leaving the profession .
39 Among the challengers , excellent boxers from the Army who were stationed nearby often took a chance to make an extra pound or two , although if caught , would be for the high jump , as this sort of contest was strictly against regulations .
40 All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output .
41 Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath .
42 It is considered better therefore to have a longer set of allowable candidate strings which includes the correct word although this may often include rarely occurring words .
43 Below Knox 's supposed home once stood the Netherbow Port , a gateway in the town wall , outside which began the abbey 's separate burgh of Canongate .
44 The process by which a decision is made almost invariably affects the outcome .
45 She says everyone 's done so well to raise a quarter of a million pounds — we 're just wondering what we 're going to do next !
46 Unless the United Nations is prepared actually physically to keep the peace , the federal forces have every incentive to maintain military operations against Croatia .
47 But , to return one final time to Bakhtin , in case he is appropriated yet again to legitimate a selective and ludicrously ahistorical celebration of ‘ carnival ’ :
48 Their protagonists argue that the law of murder is so important socially that derogation from the principle of maximum certainty should be allowed in favour of more accurate labelling by the courts ; opponents argue that the principle of maximum certainty is needed here specifically to reduce the risk of verdicts based on discriminatory or irrelevant factors , such as distaste for the defendant 's background , allegiance , or other activities .
49 He said , ‘ My son , my body is returning to my mother earth , and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit …
50 He has said he can recognize the man , and is coming here tonight to make the assay .
51 But the novel by Valery Bryusov from which the opera is derived also symbolically re-enacts a tense , real-life emotional triangle that involved Bryusov himself and two other Russian symbolist poets , Andrey Bely and Nina Petrovskaya .
52 She 's coming again tomorrow to have a look at it and practice .
53 As they do best if the water is aerated only half fill the aquarium .
54 The Food Safety Act is working very effectively improving the quality of our food and giving consumers confidence in the integrity of the food supply .
55 The research-oriented approach to teaching that I have been proposing here obviously sets a high premium on teacher preparation , and that in turn raises the issues of the education and training of teachers .
56 ‘ We are working hard here to change a lot of things after all the problems the club suffered off the field last season .
57 So er , kind words to us , thank you very much , but there are bodies which are working very effectively to spread the net , er , my view , by the way , is of course erm , I 'm a great believer in , er pressures being exercised by every mechanism .
58 Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology .
59 In later records , notably the census returns of 1841 and 1851 , he was said more specifically to follow the trade of fancy weaver , that is the manufacture of waistcoats and other garments with decorative patterns .
60 The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket .
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