Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 2 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 3 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |
| 4 | It had been widely expected that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali , whose distaste for capital punishment for politically motivated crimes had been well publicized , would commute the death sentences . |
| 5 | Increasingly with voluntary bodies , and I know that this was discussed at length in the P A G , but will be of interest to members , increasingly with voluntary bodies , we are moving towards er , jointly providing services with them , in a partnership arrangement where we are effectively purchasing and commissioning services from them , and that is the way we would wish the policy to go . |
| 6 | We have regularly said that we are prepared to put another 1p on the standard rate of income tax to ensure that people are properly trained and skill-trained , so that we can tackle the problems of the 1990s and try to achieve a much more dynamic and effective economy . |
| 7 | The general principle is that advocates ' rights should be determined only by whether they are properly trained and members of a professional body whose rules of conduct are ‘ appropriate in the interests of justice in relation to the court or proceedings concerned ’ . |
| 8 | The other symptoms that may give clues to the presence of gonococcal infection in the woman are mostly produced when complications , such as involvement of the fallopian tubes , have set in . |
| 9 | Bedrooms are spotlessly kept and room service is available . |
| 10 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 11 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 12 | Daryl Fowler of The Conservation Practice commented ‘ The cultural spine of the Fatimid and Ayyubid city has been badly damaged and repair and conservation programmes , long needed in Cairo , are now increasingly urgent ’ . |
| 13 | Parts of South-west England have been badly hit but reports of a national epidemic have been an exaggeration , according to the research unit of the Royal College of General Practioners . |
| 14 | Parts of South-west England have been badly hit but reports of a national epidemic have been an exaggeration , according to the research unit of the Royal College of General Practioners which collects reports from more than 200 doctors at 62 practices throughout England and Wales . |
| 15 | In April 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , had been effectively removed as NLD general secretary [ see p. 38151 ] . |
| 16 | Civil liberties are most threatened when governments address symptoms , rather than causes . |
| 17 | Field men , however , are constantly reminded that industrialists and farmers work on a principle of equity : they can readily discover the standards which their competitors must observe and may complain if they are being handicapped . |
| 18 | Supplies are obviously limited and prices start from £550 including case |
| 19 | I believe the technological revolution would have been better served if Blackett had been appointed to a real job , rather than to an advisory one to Frank Cousins , who became Minister of Technology . |
| 20 | They are much prized as servants , for their ability to turn onion skins into gold leaf and many other magical spells , and were imprisoned in brass bottles or finger-ring compartments from whence they were summoned to do the bidding of their captor . |
| 21 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 22 | Because of the connection between vision and sensations , the latter are greatly amplified when visibility is poor , or when the pilot is looking in the cockpit , has no visual reference and is unaware of the exact movements of the aircraft . |
| 23 | In many cases , the anthers at the centre of each blossom are highly coloured or contrast with the petal colour to add to the attractiveness of the flower . |
| 24 | When you take them out of their high rise environment they are highly stressed and lack confidence and self esteem . |
| 25 | The days are long gone when drinkers should put up with warm and often out-of-condition beer . |
| 26 | Today the horny-hatted warriors are long gone and shipbuilding in Scandinavia is in the doldrums . |
| 27 | Many of these factors appear in spoken language interpreting , but they are better understood and training aims to overcome the weaknesses of the individual interpreter . |
| 28 | It 's a sad fact that machines are better maintained than bodies . |
| 29 | However , this is almost certainly not true of disorders like schizophrenia , which are better visualised as aberrations of otherwise normal physiological and psychological processes which for some reason pass beyond their usual adaptive limits ; here the term ‘ dysfunction ’ , rather than disease seems more appropriate . |
| 30 | DURING my introduction I said that some Regions are better placed than others to increase their growth rate . |