Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One problem that is more commonly encountered in the Z3 than in the Z1 or Z2 Carbonates , is that the sediments are widely affected by cementation and replacement by halite . |
| 2 | The important work of the Transport Policy Committee , and of the Faculty of Freight , has been widely covered in Transport and at local and national CIT meetings , so needs no detailed report here . |
| 3 | The SDI Organization had been widely accused of incompetence and waste in its use of the $20,900 million spent on SDI since 1984 . |
| 4 | The concept of need has been widely used in practice and in social policy , and is a complex and confusing one ( Bradshaw , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | More recent authority has however expressed the view that planning law is of a ‘ public character , ’ and that the courts should not introduce private law principles unless these are expressly authorised by parliament or are necessary to give effect to the legislative purpose . |
| 6 | Hair has been elegantly styled with height and volume . |
| 7 | Then there are those , predominantly male workers , who are effectively coerced into retirement and sometimes early retirement by poor working conditions , ill-health , redundancy and unemployment ( Walker , 1985b ; Walker and Taylor , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 9 | The protection of customers has been successfully achieved since privatisation and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced several examples . |
| 10 | Surviving Celtic figures of pagan imagery are mostly worked in stone or metal , not in perishable wood . |
| 11 | Soft haired brushes are mostly used for watercolour or tempera painting , with bristle mainly for oils . |
| 12 | While course outlines , statements of course objectives etc are commonly prepared by college libraries , they are rarely documented in university and polytechnic libraries . |
| 13 | Although Ian Clough and Hamish MacInnes had climbed Titan 's Wall in 1959 , it had been predominantly climbed with aid and was never really recognised as a free rock climb . |
| 14 | Garden centre managers need to know that wildflower seeds have to be grown from native stock ; that highly ornate ‘ mock-Tudor ’ nest-boxes put nestlings ' lives at risk by attracting predators ; that the natural balance of a pond is not best served by chemical algicides ; that salted peanuts are a killer for birds ; that eco-friendly insecticides are a contradiction in terms ; and that wildflowers and buddleias are little help to wildlife if they 're grown in peat-based compost . |
| 15 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 16 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 17 | Even if the rise of new politicians in the Conservative Party has displaced some elite ‘ grandees ’ , they are overwhelmingly recruited from business and the professions , and still mostly have privileged origins . |
| 18 | The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed . |
| 19 | Working at The Women Artists Slide Library means that you are constantly bombarded with information and images produced by women artists today . |
| 20 | In many cases the onset of symptoms is found in situations where water quality has deteriorated , where aggressive fish are constantly battling for territory or where opportunist parasites find a weakened fish and multiply rapidly . |
| 21 | The health authority says that with more drugs misuse in society it is vital that drugs-related services and professionals are constantly updated on development and trends so that they could best help those in need . |
| 22 | However due to ‘ outside influences ’ the opposite has occurred — practical classes have been greatly reduced in number and academic merit . |
| 23 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 24 | Libya had a wealthier , more urbanized , more stably employed population than any of them and , by every canon of development science , Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans . |
| 25 | Turnover from this region grew 260% to £1.3m , because , Turner says , it seems to have been less affected by recession than other parts of Europe , and a lot of multinationals are based there . |
| 26 | Our data might have been less affected by bias than those in other studies because we considered only women in whom the primary diagnosis was endometriosis . |
| 27 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 28 | Dunes are much disturbed in summer and of comparatively little ornithological value , much of the large dune system at Camber being occupied by a golf course . |
| 29 | Because of the shorter tapes , the cassettes are much reduced in size and therefore VHS-C camcorders are smaller and lighter to handle than full VHS machines . |
| 30 | In general , pupils ' interpretation of spatial concepts such as area , angle and shape are highly influenced by context and presentation ; they often provide cues to pupils about the way to interpret a task , and can be misleading . |