Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 2 | As sober as judges and as reverent as pilgrims , we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of disco and rock , the funeral of Sinead O'Connor , the birth of cool . |
| 3 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 4 | By the end of January the known death toll from the revolution had again been revised downwards drastically to stand at 689 . |
| 5 | Examinations are designed very largely to secure ease of marking since skilled markers are limited , and to ensure that , as far as possible , justice is seen to be one and that instances ( and accusations ) of nepotism or corruption are kept to a minimum . |
| 6 | Kaifu also expressed his determination " not to let history repeat itself " and stated that " the Japanese people are resolved never again to repeat those actions which had tragic consequences " . |
| 7 | Most of the functions attributed to rises are nearer to grammatical than attitudinal , as in the first three examples given below ; they are included here mainly to give a fuller picture of intonational function . |
| 8 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 10 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been told once more to mind my own business . |
| 12 | So the stick may have been used both audibly to establish speed , and visibly during the course of a piece . |
| 13 | The term " Chetniks " could only have been used very loosely to apply to them all , although in Macmillan 's diary entry on his visit to Klagenfurt he refers to the use of the word " Chetniks " to describe " guerilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and … |
| 14 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
| 15 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 16 | It has been used twice before to kill , and each time a single shot was fired . |
| 17 | I think it clear , and indeed the Home Office Circular of 1930 explicitly states ( page 4 ) , that it is in order to secure this aim , and in recognition of the fact that a person in custody is in a specially vulnerable position , and hence particularly at a disadvantage in responding to questions in a balanced and measured way , that it has been thought safer both to prohibit questioning after a certain point , and to exclude from evidence answers given to such questioning . |
| 18 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 19 | The ommatidia are packed closely together to form a multi-faceted compound eye . |
| 20 | Fires are lit once again to subdue and intimidate the elephants . |
| 21 | Smells are employed most widely to find food , but they also help many animals and plants to avoid being eaten . |
| 22 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 23 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 24 | However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older . |
| 25 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 26 | The hands should be pre-set slightly forward to encourage a descending strike . |
| 27 | Linighan , who will be examined again today to see whether his nose is actually broken , had played for 100 minutes in great discomfort after Bright 's dreadful challenge but joked : ‘ You get used to taking knocks like that I 'm a Hartlepool lad . ’ |
| 28 | It dropped five bound volumes through a chute into a Committee meeting , and strongly suggested they leave off debating what colour the new Nempnett Thrubwell skimover ought to be painted long enough to ponder the problem . |
| 29 | Objectives and strategies can remain valid for many years but the long-term plans to achieve them need to be revised more frequently to reflect the up-to-date position of the organisation and its environment . |
| 30 | Software Transformation 's technology provides a framework of software programming tools that is claimed to transcend differences in graphical user interfaces and varied operating system characteristics such as memory allocation and file systems so that applications need be developed only once to run on a variety of systems — currently Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh , Microsoft Corp 's Windows , Novell and Univel Inc 's UnixWare and Unixes from Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc , with versions for OS/2 , AIX and NT on the way . |