Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [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 Instead he was named Panos and had been properly adopted by a Greek couple .
14 There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared .
15 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 .
16 The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings .
17 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 ’ ) .
18 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 .
19 In a difficult year , the Institute 's financial position has been properly strengthened for the continuing uncertainties ahead .
20 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 .
21 This is perhaps not surprising , since neither proposal seems to have been properly researched from an environmental point of view .
22 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 .
23 ’ 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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