Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards . |
| 2 | Severe , sometimes fatal , hepatitis has been most commonly reported in association iwth the use of diclofenac and sulindac , Although fatalities have also been reported with the use of naproxen and indomethacin . |
| 3 | Some students felt they had been rather hard pressed in relation to their knowledge of chemistry , but Coleman rightly said that a properly educated gentleman could be expected to understand the general principles and applications of chemical science . |
| 4 | It must be recognized that Donna Landry 's views on Leapor are most nearly justified in relation to this piece . |
| 5 | On the deck itself were scattered what looked like paving stones , and the leeboard winch had been somewhat garishly painted in red , white , and gold . |
| 6 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 7 | It also helps to vary the shapes of the flowers as well as their colours : for example , hydrangeas are much more pointed in shape than roses , and the petals of potentillas are widely spaced and so give a more pronounced petal shape . |
| 8 | Consequently some CMHC teams tend to focus on more articulate , well-organized , socially competent people in a transient state of distress and have less time for the more seriously disturbed and those with long-term disorders who are less readily engaged in treatment . |
| 9 | Instead of orderly motility patterns , which can be analysed relatively easily , irregular contractions occur that are apparently tandomly distributed in location and time . |
| 10 | What may be thought surprising is the absence of Celtic deities which are so well represented in stone sculpture and reliefs , especially in the west . |
| 11 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 12 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 13 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 14 | It was no accident that Nietzsche 's move to Leipzig , implying the decision to specialize in classics , was followed by an overnight conversion to Schopenhauer ; and no accident , again , that his final acceptance of a classical career should have been so closely associated in time with his commitment , after so many years of desultory acquaintance , to Wagner . |
| 15 | These problems suddenly appeared quite separately from those dietary concerns about fats , fibre , sugar and salt which arose from the COMA report in 1984 , and which have been so widely used in food manufacturers ' advertising claims . |
| 16 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 17 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 18 | The auction houses may anticipate an effect on prices , although early and late impressions are already clearly differentiated in catalogue descriptions . |
| 19 | It is in this context that minorities who may feel that their causes are not adequately represented in Parliament wish to use their freedom of protest to draw attention to their plight . |
| 20 | Other examples of insurance claims being referred to experts do not appear in the reports and are not generally encountered in practice ; the insurance world has a pronounced preference for arbitration . |
| 21 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 22 | We shall see that employers are key actors within industrial relations and that they possess a considerable margin for defining their own policies which are not wholly determined in response to the actions of unions , or to economic and political pressures . |
| 23 | ( Statistical terms such as variance , skewness and kurtosis , though easily defined in terms of the above molecular weight averages , are not usually employed in polymer science . ) |
| 24 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 25 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 26 | This Order , which is now in force , imposes a levy on employers in the engineering construction industry ( including employers who are not mainly engaged in engineering construction activities ; for them , the levy will be imposed only in respect of their engineering construction activities ) . |
| 27 | This definition encompasses the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency : current welfare losses may be acceptable , if the market structure or conduct which gives rise to the losses will also generate efficiencies in the long run , so long as the prospective benefits are not too delayed in realization and the social discount rate is not too high . |
| 28 | The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government . |
| 29 | Marriages , contrary to belief , are not necessarily made in heaven . |
| 30 | Danish schools whose heads do not see themselves as curriculum leaders are not necessarily sunk in apathy or mechanically carrying out the dictates of a central programme . |