Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still-lifes on tables , dresser tops , window sills and mantelpieces can be improvised just as successfully as those on walls . |
| 2 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 3 | But Wrexham MP Dr John Marek claims that the full potential of the site will be realised far more quickly if it is instead transferred into public ownership . |
| 4 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |
| 5 | The oohs and aahs could probably be heard as far away as Ecclesfield . |
| 6 | The law therefore allows the offence to be treated just as seriously as rape , and we have seen how some would argue that it should be included as a form of rape , or at least as a form of the most serious offence of sexual assault , in any reformed law . |
| 7 | It should however be noted that by virtue of the automatic discharge from a first bankruptcy after three years irrespective of the debtor 's conduct ( short of criminal offence ) , an individual debtor will be treated far more leniently than a company director guilty of wrongful trading , who can be disqualified for up to 15 years . |
| 8 | Bill Shankly will be laughing somewhere up there as well . |
| 9 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |
| 10 | New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has shown ozone depletion to be occurring twice as fast as previously thought . |
| 11 | Why did he spend his life making films that would be forgotten almost as quickly as it took to make them ? |
| 12 | kids might have to be uprooted all over again because it 's too far from her |
| 13 | ( see fig 7 ) This can be applied much more easily because it is not rigidly defined in the way that Burgess ' model is . |
| 14 | Unfortunately this is a calculation which can be made only very crudely since it is impossible to say with total accuracy ( even though we can make control sample comparisons ) ( a ) which clients would have been institutionalised in the absence of the project , and ( b ) whether they would have been admitted to a long-stay hospital or to residential accommodation . |
| 15 | The similarities and differences between the two groups can be seen even more clearly if an attempt is made to formulate specific short-term objectives . |
| 16 | In fact the chances for viewing exciting wildlife are getting rarer every day , as hundreds more people take to the hills , bringing dogs and children and wearing colours that can be seen as far away as Belgium . |
| 17 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 18 | However , it is characteristic of quantified patterns that they can conceal what lies behind them and so they can be interpreted much more deeply than in this unilinear way . |
| 19 | Most ceremonies take place in a synagogue , but can be performed anywhere so long as they are under a chuppah ( wedding canopy ) . |
| 20 | These mill owners alleged that cloth woven on Lewis from mainland yarn could be sold much more cheaply than cloth made from yarn spun in Lewis . |
| 21 | In particular , group means need to be used rather more circumspectly than was thought necessary in the early studies . |
| 22 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals ' report suggests that more flexibility should ‘ allow staff to be used considerably more effectively than under the present system , where research is considered the prime and often only road to reward and promotion and hence staff expect that the balance of their tasks should be broadly the same for all . ’ |
| 23 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |
| 24 | This will be needed even more urgently if the government acts on the Tomlinson recommendations for the capital 's hospitals and closes large numbers of acute beds over five to 10 years . |
| 25 | ‘ But you must remember it 's only provisional pole and I 've got two young tigers either side of me that will be going much quicker tomorrow so we 've all got to find a bit of speed . ’ |
| 26 | If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper . |
| 27 | The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates . |
| 28 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
| 29 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |
| 30 | Spider silk is made from proteins , and is nearly as strong as nylon , though it can be stretched twice as far as the man-made material . |