Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet .
2 BRS users are predominantly found in the legal , government , security and publishing sectors .
3 As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams .
4 These are widely advertised in the evident continentality of so much of the late Permian and early Triassic record in Europe and North America .
5 Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux .
6 Such traits are widely distributed in the general population and , as considerable research over the past decade has shown , are easily measurable with self-rating questionnaires , of which there are now very many .
7 They are widely used on the large-scale , a familiar example being the cup anemometer used in everyday meteorological applications .
8 The geometric compositions are derived from traditional village and nomadic designs and are widely used in the Soviet Union , Pakistan and Afghanistan .
9 Both terms are widely used in the everyday speech of laymen concerning economic and business affairs . [ … ]
10 London , especially Inner London , gains considerably from the heavy weight given to population density and to a range of household characteristics derived from the Census , which are widely used in the redistributional formulae .
11 That view has been little heard since the 1960s , when London reasserted a traditional suzerainty over theatre and literary publishing , and that so silently , and so naturally , that the reversion passed almost unnoticed .
12 Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road .
13 The scope of our work for the purpose of this report was limited to confirming that the directors are entitled to deliver abbreviated accounts and that the abbreviated accounts have been properly prepared from the full financial statements .
14 The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings .
15 Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) .
16 The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital .
17 In a difficult year , the Institute 's financial position has been properly strengthened for the continuing uncertainties ahead .
18 The administration in the United States ( which had never formally recognized the incorporation of the three Baltic republics into the Soviet Union ) on March 12 ruled out such recognition until independence had been properly negotiated with the Soviet authorities , and it called on the latter to respect Lithuania 's declaration , and on all parties to avoid violence .
19 PROFESSOR Tom Gibson 's death has understandably been widely noted in the public press , such was his reputation and distinction in the world of medical science , medicine and the arts .
20 In the West , poetry in translation from Eastern Europe has been widely disseminated in the past couple of decades .
21 In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism .
22 Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month .
23 A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades .
24 The Swastika has been widely associated with the solar orb and its motion across the sky , the right-angled movement of the design relating to the rising sun and the left-angled to the setting sun , and accordingly the summer and winter solstices .
25 The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community .
26 For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy .
27 Dream interpretation had been widely practised in the ancient world , but since Christian theologians could establish no way of telling the difference between divine and demonic dreams , divination of any sort was pronounced heretical .
28 The McDonald 's approach to business and training has been widely copied in the retail industry .
29 Following the killing of Judge Giovanni Falcone on May 23 [ see p. 38896 ] , Borsellino had been widely tipped as the probable appointee to head a new anti-Mafia judicial body planned by the Italian government .
30 The release of the prisoners , which had been widely anticipated following the successful visit of a joint Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Socialist Party delegation to North Korea in September , was interpreted as an important gesture of conciliation and as a means of clearing the way for further talks aimed at the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries .
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