Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ’ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For example , the three animal portrait artists interviewed here are successfully engaged with a differentiated public and certainly voice separate considerations regarding their production . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In a soft shade of bisque , this classic collection of painted furniture has been skilfully finished with a fashionable and authentic aged look . |
| 20 | The programs have been successfully transferred to a wide range of computers including microcomputers . |
| 21 | The results in Table 2 show that phosphorylcholine treatments have been successfully applied to a wide range of biomaterials . |
| 22 | DOCTORS were today carefully monitoring the progress of Siamese twin boys who have been successfully separated after a 16-hour operation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | systems are rarely tested in a comparable way , for example in terms of actual input , number of writers , size of vocabulary and so on ; |
| 25 | Research posts often have short-term contracts and are rarely held on a tenured basis . |
| 26 | No , I have not been secretly inducted as a Grand Master of Tangerine Terror . |
| 27 | In conclusion , our findings suggest that H pylori infection may have been predominantly acquired at a young age in the past . |
| 28 | GLT : = Goldeck Loft Technology : A special system developed by Goldeck whereby polyester hollow fibres are spirally crimped in a three-dimensional configuration giving a down-like performance . |
| 29 | All , or at least some are presumably revealed in a slender monthly publication . |
| 30 | They are plushly decorated with a red carpet and a fine wooden floor , and the walls have recessed oil lamps , paintings and hangings . |