Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can , however , blame the culture that is dominated by masculine values , in which women are widely perceived as less intelligent , and as sex objects and prisoners of their biology . |
| 2 | Last month we looked at the Dorian , Aeolian , Locrian , Melodic and Harmonic Minor scales ; today I 'd like to look at other minor scales which are widely used in today 's music . |
| 3 | As studies have focused on the immediate pregnancy related complications of gestational diabetes it is not surprising that the value of such screening has not been properly investigated as far as long term complications are concerned . |
| 4 | John Morris 's international prospects have been widely written off ever since he played Algy to David Gower 's Biggles in that amusing but ill-advised flying-circus routine on England 's last Australian tour . |
| 5 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 6 | Such confirmations merely indicate that some theory that was well established and regarded as unproblematic has been successfully applied once again . |
| 7 | First , they are rarely posed as clearly as this ; things tend to happen incrementally or interstitially . |
| 8 | This simplicity is , of course , in many respects the precise object of their management , because energy and nutrients are thereby channelled as directly as possible into human consumption with few sidechains and reduction in the losses involved in transferring energy between trophic levels . |
| 9 | These are intimately bound up together , not least because of the way in which the marriage contract is defined . |
| 10 | The Signature 's neck feels glossier , and the action at the bridge has been better set up so that the strings lie well above the ashtray 's sides ; otherwise both guitars are very playable , with good , low nuts and buzz-free actions . |
| 11 | Advertisement , oh right the riverside murder , well that 's been nicely set out as well has n't it ? |
| 12 | Laser Raman spectroscopy revealed that near to the rector cores , the bitumen is less graphite and pyrolysis GC-MS showed that the aromatics are less condensed here too . |
| 13 | When I drive off , I am so churned up inside that I find myself hoping I sha n't make things worse by having a coronary on the way to work . ’ |
| 14 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 15 | In 1975 , in a statement that has been much quoted ever since , the then Home Secretary Roy Jenkins said that if the prison population in England and Wales ‘ should rise to , say 42,000 , conditions in the system would approach the intolerable and drastic action to relieve the position would be inescapable ’ ( quoted in Stern 1997 : 39 ) . |
| 16 | Erm yes the cycle work working party has been very successful i er experiment and it has been much appreciated not only by people in the city but by the the other parties that have taken part in it . |
| 17 | John Galliano was no exception and failed to receive his award in person as he had been gently taken home earlier , his face wreathed in smiles . |
| 18 | Prejudices , we 're all born with them , they 're if you like perceptions which are only changed very often through experience . |
| 19 | Only everything 's been so buggered up today in general … , ’ |
| 20 | Men who stray are somehow seen as more exciting and desirable than good old Mr Steady ( remember how Paddy Ashdown 's poll popularity grew after he 'd ‘ confessed ’ ) . |
| 21 | The advantage of this method is that profits are normally taxed only once ; the drawback is that firms have some leeway to relocate profits , paying inflated prices for imports from group subsidiaries in low-tax countries . |
| 22 | Haulms are normally burnt off about two weeks before lifting commences . |
| 23 | And even if the weather is passable , low level walks will take you to places you 'd perhaps never have tried if you 're one of the many walkers whose sights are normally set pretty firmly on the heights . |
| 24 | But they are best followed up later ( when the heat is off ) with some discussion of what took place . |
| 25 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 26 | When the patient is fit enough these measures are best performed as frequently as every 12 minutes . |
| 27 | A monastery occupies the foundations today , the military buildings having been largely pulled down long ago . |
| 28 | In fact , the Greek region of Macedonia is almost one hundred per cent ethnically Greek now , the Slavs having been progressively squeezed out earlier so far century . |
| 29 | One reason for this is that more women are first offenders , who are generally treated more leniently . |
| 30 | The presentation of policies in this section will be sketchy because they are generally covered more fully in the appropriate detailed chapter later in the book . |