Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is because they have already been widely written about in feminist art history ? |
| 2 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |
| 3 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 4 | As in other remnants of the Great Wood of Caledon , pine seedlings ( abundant enough to begin with ) are mostly browsed away by red deer . |
| 5 | The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements . |
| 6 | This has been overwhelmingly borne out by clinical psychoanalytic investigations of the id . |
| 7 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 8 | The police are obviously involved also in other activities which bring them into contact with employees and a good relationship with them in these other areas will often be beneficial to reaching a quick and satisfactory solution to all sides when violence does occur ’ . |
| 9 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 10 | Too many studios had been built in Britain during the production boom and , at a time when filmmakers were anyway keener than they had been hitherto to get out among ordinary people , they found they were no longer constrained by anxious accountants determined to maximize the use of studio space . |
| 11 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |
| 12 | You can use the statement LOCAL to define variables which are only known locally to individual procedures and functions . |
| 13 | Jack 's been so cut up about poor Charlie . |
| 14 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 15 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 16 | These potentialities are successively narrowed down in subsequent stages of development . |
| 17 | Parochial clergy are normally covered comprehensively against personal accidents , but other church employees are usually covered only whilst actually working for the Church . |
| 18 | Even his or her literary appreciation and sensitivity are normally based more on acquired interest than on academic training , although such is literary fashion and taste the latter may be no firm base for judgment either . |
| 19 | According to Stephen Auditaire of the Fremont , California-based X Business Group , corporations are adopting X as a component of their PC integration strategy — and that wo n't necessarily affect X-terminal business , as PCs are normally used only for occasional access to corporate databases , not the constant heavy graphical use more suited to X-terminals . |
| 20 | Uncontrollable items , such as inflation , are best treated separately from controllable costs so that cause and effect can be related more readily and to avoid unnecessary worrying about items over which the budget-holder has no influence . |
| 21 | However , high shutter speeds reduce the exposure time and so are best used only in good light . |
| 22 | Customs control on arrival is very lax so any spare parts are best brought in as personal luggage rather than sent separately . |
| 23 | Severed eyes are best potted individually in good clean garden soil and stood in a shallow bowl of water with their growing points submerged . |
| 24 | Drivers report no guerrilla attacks , even though security north of the Salang Tunnel has been largely handed over to local militia units and the army withdrawn . |
| 25 | The first are the poorer urban dwellers — these are largely made up of junior office staff , workers in the retail and hotel sectors , petty retailers and petty commodity producers and the unemployed , old and sick . |
| 26 | Pension funds can further diversify their portfolios by investing in a spread of these units across different managed funds ( insurance companies have in fact set up specialised managed funds that are largely made up of specific investments , to allow such diversification across managed funds by pension funds ) . |
| 27 | Losing Out has argued that , since 1979 , a minority of the population has been progressively cut off from other people on low income , let alone those on average or high incomes . |
| 28 | Poles are generally used only on straight windows , but rails and tracks can usually go round curves and bays . |
| 29 | Interpreting roleplays for instance are not only useful in interpreting courses — they are already used sometimes in other areas of language teaching to good effect . |
| 30 | Many of us are already cutting down on red meat , partly for health reasons but also because of , as Audrey Eyton explains ( see p.56 ) , the growing awareness that animals being farmed intensively are neither happy nor tasty . |