Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society !
2 This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric .
3 The succession at the margin of the platform appears to be composed mainly of oolitic grainstones , although these have only been described so far from Poland ( Peryt et al. 1978 ) .
4 Collapse breccias have only been described so far from the Auk and Argyll fields in the central North Sea ( Pennington 1975 ; Brennand and van Veen 1975 ) .
5 Their spokesman , Richard Grundy , said : ‘ It 's all been handled very badly by Frank Williams .
6 ‘ They 've all been fumigated quite properly under Ministry supervision . ’
7 The bulb had obviously been hit hard so as to break its filament , to ensure no warning light came on .
8 We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim .
9 This species is confirmed from only one locality in the Outer Hebrides , although plants identified just to the genus Salicornia alone are recorded quite widely .
10 The detailed and time-consuming clerical procedures needed to record issues , sizes of stock categories and other stock data can obviously be undertaken more cost-effectively by computers .
11 He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes .
12 Others , such as whether to move house , can probably only be made much later .
13 British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter .
14 This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns .
15 That is what they 're saying and I think that that can only be seen as eminently reasonable and I think that that Edward has hit the nail right on the head when he says look if this issue is not properly considered locally there can be no alternative if Government fails in its duty to call it in in the in the interests of of the local communities and the region at large , then it will have to go to Brussels .
16 So , instead of a long run of one opera followed by a long run of another , operas would only be performed perhaps twice in succession and then not again for two or three weeks , during which other works would be given .
17 The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature .
18 Without amplification , cylinders could only be reproduced more loudly by altering the leverage between the stylus and the reproducing diaphragm .
19 While certainly it seems plausible to suggest that , if there are people from similar social or educational backgrounds in a number of key roles , the relationships between those people will facilitate the sharing of ideas and opinions , the processes involved can not necessarily be explained as simply as this .
20 But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election .
21 Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered
22 We are sorry that we can not prove a cause and effect conclusively , but suspect that the hemiparesis could be a reaction related to sumatriptan and suggest that intra-cerebral binding sites of sumatriptan should perhaps be studied more closely .
23 This novel method of synthesising the compound could perhaps be used more widely if the compound were dispersed — eg within a zeolite — where there are channels for the rapid movement of the reactive plasma species .
24 Less than a quarter of contests ever reach the final , antler pushing stage , and even then the deer stag only pushes its opponent 's antlers rather than trying to spike his softer flanks ; antlers could perhaps be used more dangerously than they are .
25 However , although only one in twenty of those over the age of 55 reported that they were pleased about the plant closure , those who did so were concentrated almost entirely in the group that was within three years of pension age when the redundancies took place .
26 If ST depression alone is used then very limited information regarding future mortality is gained and there is a striking variation in the results published ( Table 1 ) .
27 Er , perhaps the whole project could also be attributed , mainly I think , to Freud 's desire to try and keep open the er , the er , analytic publishing house , which he founded in and which er , basically was kept together financially from the er , forwarded , forwarded er , royalties which Bullett sent from America .
28 It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before .
29 More than 150 workers have already been killed so far this year , according to a report by rural sociologist Jose Ramón Mauleon .
30 But for Iain such everyday adolescent misadventures have already been left far behind .
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