Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he was named Panos and had been properly adopted by a Greek couple . |
| 2 | There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared . |
| 3 | This is perhaps not surprising , since neither proposal seems to have been properly researched from an environmental point of view . |
| 4 | The use of children to tutor other children has been widely acknowledged as a successful teaching strategy in a variety of curriculum and ex-curriculum subjects . |
| 5 | ’ Our Farming Future ’ has been widely acknowledged as a realistic and helpful statement of the Government 's approach to the challenges facing the farming industry in the 1990s . |
| 6 | The difficulty of obtaining small amounts of external finance on adequate terms has been widely recognised as a major constraint on the formation and growth of small businesses in the UK . |
| 7 | The main report has been widely cited as an objective statement on the persistent pattern of human rights violations which has continued under President Fujimori . |
| 8 | The decision of the House of Lords in R v. Greater London Council ex parte Bromley London Borough Council ( 1981 ) , confirming that of the Court of Appeal , has been widely regarded as a political decision , no doubt because it gave a ruling in an acutely political controversy . |
| 9 | During his 12 years in the post Späth had consolidated Baden-Württemberg 's reputation as a prosperous state and he had been widely regarded as a possible successor to Kohl . |
| 10 | The extensive series of domal uplifts traversed by the East African Rift System has been widely regarded as a clear example of active rifting with uplift preceding the development of rift structures . |
| 11 | What they are supposed to do has suddenly been widely perceived as a necessary and valuable commercial asset , bringing substantial profits to UK market leaders NEC , Panasonic and Canon . |
| 12 | Titled ‘ The Tate 's continual revolutionary ’ , this unflattering portrait has been widely accepted as a fair criticism and is accompanied by a declining audience for the museum 's collection and exhibitions . |
| 13 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 14 | This research has recently been widely re-publicized in an anti-TV campaign by the Newspaper Proprietors ' Association ( most of whose members , it was quickly pointed out , use TV aggressively to advertise their own papers ) . |
| 15 | Today , the Ayatollah Bakhtiar , chairperson of the Sword of Allah Jihad Committee , sentenced to death in absentia graphic novelist Neil Gaiman author of the award-winning Tintin in the Land of the Ragheads , which has been widely interpreted as a personal attack on the Moslem faith and the continuing Islamic occupation of Greece , Albania , Macedonia , Kosovo and Montenegro . |
| 16 | Unlike the problems which surround retirement from work , the loss of the parental role has not been widely discussed as a social issue , and certainly not in terms of the problems and difficulties it might bring in its wake . |
| 17 | For example , the three animal portrait artists interviewed here are successfully engaged with a differentiated public and certainly voice separate considerations regarding their production . |
| 18 | This damage has been powerfully illustrated in a famous study that depended on deception : John Howard Griffin , a white man , darkened his skin and trudged through the American South . |
| 19 | Having been duly warned about an overseas tour , in time a boat list appeared and all the old sweats started horrific stories about the various places we were destined to go . |
| 20 | We should take care to distinguish between instances of the definite article which are textually determined by a previous mention and those which are determined by assumptions about the schemata of the receiver . |
| 21 | A note of warning is necessary here , as the Revenue can sometimes seek to deny the £30,000 exemption under s188 where a departing executive is also a vendor shareholder , on the basis that the sum paid as compensation for loss of office is in reality attributable to the sale of his shares , and they may also challenge the deductibility by Target of such payments , especially if these are effectively funded by a reduced acquisition price for Target . |
| 22 | Instead we are arguing that all academic texts are effectively working with a particular brief and it is important that this be either spelled out in the production of academic texts or taken apart systematically by the readership . |
| 23 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 24 | In a soft shade of bisque , this classic collection of painted furniture has been skilfully finished with a fashionable and authentic aged look . |
| 25 | A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September . |
| 26 | The programs have been successfully transferred to a wide range of computers including microcomputers . |
| 27 | The results in Table 2 show that phosphorylcholine treatments have been successfully applied to a wide range of biomaterials . |
| 28 | DOCTORS were today carefully monitoring the progress of Siamese twin boys who have been successfully separated after a 16-hour operation . |
| 29 | The only public sign that magical vengeance has been successfully practised against a suspected witch-murderer is the cessation of mourning by the family of the original victim . |
| 30 | systems are rarely tested in a comparable way , for example in terms of actual input , number of writers , size of vocabulary and so on ; |