Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 2 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |
| 3 | The second round of ‘ Unity ’ talks between the two opposing Unix factions are faring much better than the ill-fated first bout , though actual unity is unlikely to result at least in the short term . |
| 4 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 5 | Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically . |
| 6 | If the smallest doses are given then even if the remedy is inappropriate the harm done is insignificant and the appropriate remedy quickly puts the case in order . |
| 7 | To some , the parade before the public is a source of extreme satisfaction to their vanity , but all the preliminaries that go before the parade are so much drudgeries that irritate , and are completed as hastily as possible . |
| 8 | The firm is well known for its painstaking research , which may mean that assignments are completed less quickly than by rival headhunters , but they are certainly carried out more thoroughly . |
| 9 | The culmination of these processes suggests that about 12,800 additional jobs have been sustained either directly or indirectly by the enterprise-zone experiment . |
| 10 | In the left-hand zone of the picture the features are treated almost realistically and ‘ brought forward towards the observer . |
| 11 | Where disabled persons are treated less favourably than others because they can not comply with a requirement with which a substantially higher proportion of non-disabled persons can comply , and the requirement is not justifiable in the circumstances , indirect discrimination will arise . |
| 12 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 13 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 14 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 15 | The stages are listed here not because this is exactly what every survey is like , or should be like , but because survey researchers have to consider all these points at some stage , and usually in roughly this order . |
| 16 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 17 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 18 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 19 | A feature which distinguishes superior from inferior courts is that superior courts are not limited in their jurisdiction , whereas inferior courts are limited both geographically and as to the subject matter of the dispute . |
| 20 | ‘ Farthingdales are struggling as hard as Chester 's in the current market . |
| 21 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 22 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 23 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 24 | These syllabuses have been developed as far as possible in common with the HND in Business Studies . |
| 25 | In the case of Penge , apart from one low and narrow railway bridge , there was no difficulty with narrow roads , since Penge had been developed much later than Croydon and its main roads were of ample width . |
| 26 | And that would put into that policy the flexibility that we have been given orally today and which Selby and myself and I think Richmondshire I 'm not sure , were were erm seeking for a local plan level determination . |
| 27 | So , it is n't as if we 're saying , erm maths has always been taught quite well but we can do it better . |
| 28 | Lee Jackson has been competing very well as hooker and deserves another chance . |
| 29 | It has been gathering there ever since the breach was healed . |
| 30 | It is so much easier to understand detailed and complicated financial figures when they are explained graphically rather than as a mass of figures on a piece of paper . |