Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 2 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 3 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 4 | It has already been used widely to analyse discourses of objects which interest feminist psychology , including mother-child relations , and biology ( Sayers 1982 , Riley 1983 , Urwin 1985 , Walkerdine and Lucey 1989 ) . |
| 5 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 6 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 7 | Further opt-out votes for other schools may soon be brought forward to delay the plans more . |
| 8 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 9 | The simple grid described above is used merely to exemplify the method which , with computer analysis of the data and a use of rank ordering or numerical scaling of the judgments , is able to reach a higher level of sophistication . |
| 10 | Frank Kelly thanked us for our efforts and I somehow was volunteered again to make the reply . |
| 11 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 12 | The formal nature of the signature does indeed suggest that Molla Fenari was signing the document in an official capacity ( cf. the informal nature of the problematical signature , cited on p. 155 of Husameddin 's article and discussed below , where Molla Fenari has clearly been asked simply to lend his name to the proceedings ) ; and while he was most probably acting as kadi of Bursa , as the biographical sources would suggest , it should be noted that the signature is not in itself conclusive proof of this . |
| 13 | The vast majority of decisions within large corporate organisations are not made by the board or even by managers that board members could reasonably be expected personally to supervise . |
| 14 | It is a technique which may also be developed further to incorporate ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ yet does not ignore traditional and worthwhile methods . |
| 15 | This line of thought might also be applied rewardingly to explain one striking feature of divorce statistics . |
| 16 | Both the border and the single motifs can also be used upside-down to give a solid edge at the bottom and an irregular edge at the top . |
| 17 | If doubt can be turned destructively against truth so that it is dismissed as error , doubt can also be used constructively to prosecute error disguised as . |
| 18 | ‘ It bothers me that , as a designer , I take natural resources and turn them into something which will eventually be thrown away to become landfill . |
| 19 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 20 | Art therapy is applied arbitrarily to Disabled people and has often been used less to benefit Disabled people and more to minimise disruption to the ablebodied world . |
| 21 | The one study on which this latter conclusion is based can not be generalized to demonstrate that there is a specific deterrent effect for all other corporate offences , and in any case , it should be treated very cautiously , not only because a single study can often be shown later to have missed the general condition , but also because it flies in the face of empirically grounded deterrence theory . |
| 22 | Many of these materials are expensive , but they can often be used successfully to decorate just one section of a room or part of the walls : above or below a dado rail for instance ; or as wall panels framed with timber mouldings , with a less expensive finish used on the rest of the wall . |
| 23 | The police , of course , can never really be geared easily to incorporate structural challenge to their existing concepts of order and control , for they are set up to maintain the symbols and practice which has sustained the status quo . |
| 24 | Their findings will now be put together to form a database for firms investing in the area , telling them about the people 's skills and abilities . |
| 25 | Experiments can now be designed systematically to study factors related to the clinical success of these transplants . |
| 26 | For so many years himself a master-manufacturer at New Lanark , he might fairly be supposed still to see virtue in those among whom he had been numbered . |
| 27 | This latter difficulty , possible manipulation by managers , is found with practically all performance indicators , with gaming often being practised both to meet targets and to downgrade aspects of performance not specifically measured . |
| 28 | Your muscles are now being used properly to create a much more beautiful contour of the body . |
| 29 | The rejection of further talks means Apap now is bound officially to press ahead with industrial action , even though many of the union 's members already have supported the action being taken by others . |
| 30 | This more positive role adopted by the CNAA in recent years as a direct consequence of the financial cuts inflicted on polytechnics by the government and by the local authorities , cuts which if they go too deep are bound adversely to affect the quality of the work and thereby the quality of the courses validated by the CNAA . |