Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It follows therefore that a discussion of the effectiveness of the Chinese Wall ( a self regulatory/quasi-statutory mechanism designed , inter alia , to prevent insider dealing ) ought sensibly to be preceded by an initial outline of the substantive law regulating the practice , the likelihood of detection , and the penalties capable of being imposed . |
2 | I think everyone would accept that , what we would n't want , is for the impression wrongly to be created , that we 're favouring the Craven Arms higher than Oswestry . |
3 | The official exchange rate , was henceforth to be adjusted weekly in line with the prevailing market rate . |
4 | If production and exchange were henceforth to be determined by those who produce and consume , what functions would their former controllers then perform ? |
5 | The President and the Assembly of the Republic ( formerly the National Assembly ) were henceforth to be elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot . |
6 | The President was henceforth to be elected by direct , universal , secret suffrage for a five-year term , for a maximum of only two consecutive terms . |
7 | On May 27 , 1989 , the government announced that the name of the country , which had been changed in October 1988 from the Socialist Republic of Myanma to the Union of Myanma , was henceforth to be rendered in its vernacular form of Myanma Naingngan ( Union of Myanma ) for all official purposes [ see p. 36867 , where the date is wrongly given as June 18 ] . |
8 | Juries were to deal with serious criminal cases , elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases , and trials were henceforth to be held in public . |
9 | Production was henceforth to be concentrated on a steady output of ‘ marketable product ’ , which meant basically low-budget comedies from the likes of Will Hay and the Crazy Gang . |
10 | Owners of lands in the forests were henceforth to be allowed to bring them into cultivation and to make mills , fishponds and other constructions outside the covert , to agist their pigs in their woods at their pleasure , and to have all the eyries and honey in them . |
11 | The tendency of a work to deprave or corrupt its readers was henceforth to be judged in the light of its total impact , rather than by the arousing potential of " purple passages " . |
12 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
13 | Henceforth to be foretold what shall befall |
14 | Better to be fired than to look bad . |
15 | Better to live in hope — and better to be shot cleanly through the head than be smashed by the surf and stripped of his flesh by the knife-sharp coral . |
16 | ‘ It is better , ’ he concluded , ‘ to be a sheep than a wolf , better to be ruined than to do the ruining . ’ |
17 | Better to be loved and admired by a true and good man than be ‘ emancipated ’ . |
18 | A huge , suffocating cloud seemed suddenly to be hovering above Lindsey 's head . |
19 | The government 's plan is that tax-dodging is suddenly to be made dramatically more difficult , by reorganising the tax-collecting system and making it easier for the taxman to spot the dodgers . |
20 | It was extraordinary , she told herself , how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems , and with such authority , too . |
21 | The significance of the weakening of the royal family and the ranks of the nobility through death and illness in the 1360s , and especially in 1368 and 1369 , those two years when English fortunes seemed suddenly to be reversed , should not be underestimated . |
22 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
23 | Would not it be a disaster for business throughout the country suddenly to be confronted by a long list of new regulations and constraints ? |
24 | Nor is there much to be gained from explanations of Wordsworth 's ideas which imply that he was in some way different from ourselves . |
25 | This is a book much to be admired ; it contains exactly the sort of information I would have divulged to my own foundation students once upon a sketchbook project . |
26 | I liked his gentle , unimpeded sense of flow in the opening Andante dolce ( his slightly brisker tempo does n't quite achieve the same buoyancy as Richter ) , and his finely controlled phrasing and subtle ‘ nodal-pointing ’ are much to be admired also . |
27 | 3 Stock should be arranged neatly in drawers or on shelves 5 When goods have been taken out ( eg to be shown to a customer ) they should be returned to their correct storage place . |
28 | In the near future , following a Russian Presidential Decree , a centralised fund for the storage of captured art treasures is apparently to be set up , a kind of depository with restoration facilities . |
29 | It also does not correspond to the fundamental assumptions on which the new security systems should be based , for essential elements which would guarantee security are apparently to be excluded . |
30 | Perhaps we should blame the English for this , because it started to be built early in the thirteenth century , when Bayonne was ours , and the English royal arms of the day are apparently to be found , alongside those of France , emblazoned on some of the keystones of the very high vaulting in the nave . |