Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Bedrooms are spotlessly kept and room service is available .
4 People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre .
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 When you take them out of their high rise environment they are highly stressed and lack confidence and self esteem .
9 Today the horny-hatted warriors are long gone and shipbuilding in Scandinavia is in the doldrums .
10 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 .
11 ‘ They are always amazed that we are so un-rock 'n' roll .
12 UNDERSTANDABLY there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the demise of West Malling ( West Malling Lament , October issue , et al ) but I am amazed that the people most affected by its loss made no attempt to save it from destruction .
13 There are no balance sheets because there are no assets or liabilities in the books : sales are only recognized when cash is received ( so there are no debtors ) ; purchases are only recognized when cash is paid ( so there are no creditors ) ; there are no stock adjustments because the accounts are not concerned with recording usage , only with the fact that cash has been paid for purchases ( so there is no closing stock figure ) ; there are no fixed assets , for the same reason .
14 There are no balance sheets because there are no assets or liabilities in the books : sales are only recognized when cash is received ( so there are no debtors ) ; purchases are only recognized when cash is paid ( so there are no creditors ) ; there are no stock adjustments because the accounts are not concerned with recording usage , only with the fact that cash has been paid for purchases ( so there is no closing stock figure ) ; there are no fixed assets , for the same reason .
15 Ex-registered dockers are a particularly useful force of labour as they know the work and do not require training or close supervision — and they are only paid when work is available .
16 Many hot-spot plants are aromatic and , since patios and terraces are usually paved , this quality can be enhanced by allowing plants to trail or spill on to flagstones — which get hot in the sunshine — so that the aromatic oils which give them their scent are literally vaporised and perfume the air .
17 Princes Street limes have been especially selected as replacement trees , paid for by the town trustees .
18 Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross .
19 Highly sugared foods are best avoided as cardohydrate reacts chemically with alcohol speeding up its entry into the blood .
20 TIME MEASUREMENTS ARE BEST USED WHERE FAILURE TO MATCH A DEADLINE IS AT THE ROOT OF A PB .
21 Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) .
22 The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) .
23 Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important .
24 I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded .
25 By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term .
26 However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction .
27 Yet in the past few years long term nursing care beds in the NHS have been progressively reduced and district health authorities have made little effort to improve their remaining accommodation .
28 Even with the cost of detailed research , a set of reconstruction drawings of a site is usually far cheaper than a physical reconstruction ; in any case , such detailed drawings are generally needed as preparation for a physical reconstruction .
29 These are generally used when speed is of the essence , but you may be called upon to give an oral report to accompany a written one .
30 The TECs ' chairmen are already warning that budget cuts are forcing them to concentrate on alleviating the worst excesses of the training shortage , rather than on instigating innovative schemes .
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