Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 2 | Two examples are given overleaf Each of these can be calculated by several methods , one of which is by division . |
| 3 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 4 | Note that the 4013 chip contains two separate D-type bistables but here we are using only one of them . |
| 5 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 6 | Faced with this level of uncertainty , the response of employers within the sector has been to invest as much of their profits as possible in land or housing , if possible in their home area or within the city , if tenure is reasonably secure . |
| 7 | ‘ Ant sin one like that in years , ’ he breathed , ‘ talk is , the bloody Danes are catching too many of 'em as babees . ’ |
| 8 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |
| 9 | They admit that some people are eating too much of the chemical plasticiser ( DEHA ) found in PVC clingfilm . |
| 10 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 11 | Many people today are becoming increasingly conscious of the environmental factors of consumerism and are limiting their purchases to those which will not damage the environment . |
| 12 | Medical researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the health and weight-control benefits of dietary fibre in general — but the indications are that different forms of fibre may perform different beneficial functions . |
| 13 | Have you noticed that you are becoming increasingly aware of people and of the message they are conveying ? |
| 14 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 15 | And some are becoming too much of a good thing . |
| 16 | In my own study it seemed that young women are becoming more critical of ‘ traditional ’ gender roles , but young men are not . |
| 17 | Both are becoming more conscious of the cost of capital and the need to use finance profitably . |
| 18 | ‘ In the past customers tended to buy far more on price , ’ Anthony explained , ‘ but now they are becoming more conscious of the importance of service , more aware that better service can deliver bottom line benefits . |
| 19 | Two other sources are becoming more productive of new talent . |
| 20 | ABOVE Archaeologists are becoming more aware of the need to provide access on excavations for tourists , local people and for representatives of the funding bodies . |
| 21 | There are more and more opticians springing up in the High Street , shops selling healthcare equipment and equipment for the elderly are on the increase and shops are becoming more aware of deaf and disabled customers . |
| 22 | You are signalling what you take as common or assumed ground between your reader and yourself , and what you are representing as worthy of attention , as " new " ideas . |
| 23 | Salutary , because I am made more aware of the advances made in developing the nursing role in health care . |
| 24 | As a student PPL I am made fully aware of noise restrictions , especially at take-off , ensuring that we keep left of certain farm buildings etc . |
| 25 | have managers been made adequately aware of the potential of the system and given help to use it for strategic and management control decision making ? |
| 26 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 27 | I 've never been made much aware of it . |
| 28 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 29 | The transfer of souls in reincarnation would be important for The Waste Land , but in 1915 the ‘ revitalizing of the classics ’ , as Eliot later described one of the effects of anthropology , seems most apparent in ‘ Mr. Apollinax ’ where we are made very aware of the primitive , and particularly sexual aspects of classical mythology . |
| 30 | The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries . |