Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July . |
| 2 | Students should make themselves familiar with Traffic Regulations which are widely displayed throughout the University . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) J. Martin Shaw , County Planning Officer of Norfolk , notes that ‘ schools are widely regarded as the focus of village life ’ . |
| 4 | The ‘ two prongs of nationalism ’ , he suggests , ‘ tend to be a proletariat and an intelligentsia ’ : the former is first uprooted and then gradually incorporated in a new national community ; the latter provides new cultural definitions of group membership which are widely diffused with the development of mass literacy and a national educational system which industrialization itself makes necessary . |
| 5 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 6 | These are widely distributed within the region . |
| 7 | For example , of 134 species of mosses identified in Peary Land , north Greenland , Holmen ( 1960 ) categorized only one , Ortothecium acuminatum , as endemic to the area , and only 24 ( 18% ) as having a mainly arctic distribution ; the remaining species are widely distributed in the north temperate zone . |
| 8 | Although sponges are widely distributed in the fossil record they are particularly numerous and easy to collect in Cretaceous rocks in Europe and North America , where dozens of well-preserved species have been described . |
| 9 | Receptors which bind hormones such as adrenaline and noradrenaline are widely distributed in the body . |
| 10 | These are widely considered in the literature already mentioned above . |
| 11 | Minimum reserve ratios are widely used around the world to restrict credit , including in the USA , Japan , Canada and all the EC countries other than the UK and Luxembourg ( see Box 17.3 ) . |
| 12 | Improved versions of what became more generally known as the patent still are widely used in the making of grain whisky , gin , and other potable and industrial spirits . |
| 13 | It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information . |
| 14 | This poverty was all the worse for the general affluence around it , and until now it had been little noticed by the majority . |
| 15 | A major source will be the abundant Soviet technical literature on statistical practice , which has been little studied in the West . |
| 16 | At first the native community of the Weald may have been little affected by the expansion of the iron industry . |
| 17 | For lack of space these have previously been little shown to the public . |
| 18 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 19 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 20 | The first policeman on the scene of the crash says both children had been properly strapped into the safety seats before the accident : |
| 21 | And what would one have made of Miss Adeane , Gemma wondered , had her talents been properly nurtured from the start ? |
| 22 | What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition . |
| 23 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 24 | Some fresh-faced youth , who had not been properly introduced to the enemy , now had the nerve to try and take their place . |
| 25 | The Tribunal is thus limited to determining whether a warrant to intercept has been properly issued under the Act , that is to say , that there are adequate grounds for the issuing of a warrant and that the statutory procedures have been complied with . |
| 26 | It was highly reprehensible for a young girl who had not been properly initiated into the status of motherhood to become pregnant . |
| 27 | Are there periods in his career or aspects of his art which have not been properly appreciated in the past and which will be reassessed by your exhibition ? |
| 28 | Nor has the potential and positive contribution of musicians been widely acknowledged in the process of reform . |
| 29 | This had already been widely adopted as the name of a higher school . |
| 30 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |