Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These areas are predominantly used to rear hardy beef cattle and sheep which are sold in the autumn to be finished elsewhere . |
| 2 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 3 | Holist explanations are widely acknowledged to play a vital part in our understanding of the social world . |
| 4 | ‘ Concentrations ’ are widely defined to include not only mergers in the strict sense , but any transaction which results in the acquisition of direct or indirect control of all or part of an undertaking . |
| 5 | The guidelines are widely believed to reflect the personal antipathy towards animal experiments of the foundation 's chairman , Lord Wolfson . |
| 6 | Sterling 's immediate fortunes are widely believed to hang on a positive reception to Mr Lawson 's speech . |
| 7 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 8 | Such an action seems rather cavalier in relation to someone whose feet and ankles are widely believed to have the potential to be valued in seven figures . |
| 9 | They receive a rapturous reception , which is as it should be : here , after all , are the players who have lost just one league game in the previous fifteen months , the players who are widely expected to terrify the rest of the continent in the European Cup , the team with the best strike force and the meanest defence in the First Division . |
| 10 | These are very substantial changes which are widely expected to continue in the 1990s . |
| 11 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 12 | Such considerations as the following are widely thought to favour preference over the older hedonistic utilitarianism . |
| 13 | The draft transfer pricing regulations the IRS issued earlier this year caused a storm of international protest ; they are widely thought to introduce a different notion of what is ‘ arm 's length ’ from that generally accepted by other tax authorities . |
| 14 | The arguments in defence of individualism discussed in the previous chapter are widely held to defeat holism utterly by demonstrating the reducibility of all theories about social wholes . |
| 15 | These contacts are widely reported to improve students ' motivation , and all the more so within Compact where achievement of student goals is directly linked to offers of employment . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , simple systems are widely used to do ab initio calculations accurate enough to answer important questions for reasonably complex molecules . |
| 17 | Cloches are widely used to protect strawberries in spring and to produce an early crop . |
| 18 | New computer-based technologies are widely predicted to have fundamental implications for the role of engineering draughtsmen and engineering designers , and the relationship of the design activity to other organisational functions . |
| 19 | Then , in a lilting yet hesitant voice that betrayed his unfamiliarity with English , he added , ‘ I am most honoured to meet you , Lady Fei . |
| 20 | And it had been little comfort to realise — since he clearly could n't be bothered to even make the effort to get in touch with her — that her marriage had obviously been a disastrous mistake from the very beginning . |
| 21 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 22 | In the main there has been little work to evaluate the effects of the other demographic and economic factors listed in table 6.2 . |
| 23 | For many UK multinationals , the question has been whether intangibles have been properly exploited to produce UK taxable income ( and thereby mop up ACT ) . |
| 24 | Douglas Turner , of the RSSPCC , said key elements of the Orkney affair , such as the truth of the allegations , had never been properly investigated given the strict guidelines set for Lord Clyde 's inquiry . |
| 25 | The Japanese system of subcontracting has attracted much popular attention , especially in the motor industry , where it has been widely believed to have improved Japanese industrial efficiency by promoting specialized investment and technical innovation by supplier-firms who , in turn , have their sales guaranteed if they perform effectively . |
| 26 | This condition has been widely noted to have a distinct , seasonality of occurrence , appearing in greatest incidence in temperate areas during the warm summer months , and almost disappearing when the temperatures of autumn , winter and spring are too low to allow development of eggs to the infective stage . |
| 27 | These fish are native to North America and in recent years have been widely used to stock artificial fisheries throughout Britain . |
| 28 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 29 | In recent years , the SeHCAT test has been widely used to investigate bile acid malabsorption . |
| 30 | Rowan Martin , who had worked for 20 years with the department , had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director of the department , until his arrest in mid-1992 on corruption charges , on which he was later exonerated . |