Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall suggest later , the relationships in which the inhabitants are enmeshed often encourage soil degradation and erosion in fragile environments — which has the effect of a vicious circle and makes it even harder for transitional and progressive technical ( and political ) changes to be made . |
| 2 | The last two weeks of the college year are given over to work experienCe or end of year activities ( EYA ) . |
| 3 | Generally , it is difficult to ensure that building works are completed once planning consent has been granted . |
| 4 | The centres of our old cities have been ripped apart to make way for it . |
| 5 | Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake . |
| 6 | Although the methodology is of general applicability , it has been developed here using ARC/INFO running under the VMS operating system on a microVAX 2 . |
| 7 | The closer one can get to reality , the easier the learning by the student , provided that the necessary knowledge has been given previously to facilitate comprehension . |
| 8 | They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations . |
| 9 | Madden has been used in short bursts during the Bombers ' opening games and the ruckman has complained that he has not been given enough playing time and that this is affecting his play . |
| 10 | He had been taught how to play lacrosse as a boy at the Stockport Secondary School by the Physics master , Mr. William White , an Old Stopfordian , and after the war he reintroduced the game to the Grammar School . |
| 11 | The samples were added to tubes which had been chilled previously containing disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate ( EDTA ) ( 5 mM , final concentration ) for cyclic nucleotide assay , and EDTA and aprotinine ( 500 KIU/ml ) for atrial natriuretic peptide and glucagon assays . |
| 12 | There is no evidence that research is at all hampered by note-taking , and many interviews of a very personal kind are carried out using tape recorders or notebooks . |
| 13 | Most proprietary medications are designed not to kill filter bacteria . |
| 14 | Health , quality , and safety regulations are designed both to provide information and to express society 's value judgements about intangibles such as life itself . |
| 15 | But some are designed specifically to feature information about the social , cultural or professional life of the country . |
| 16 | ‘ You are supposed never to use karate and if you do it 's only in circumstances where you 've exhausted every other option . |
| 17 | These systems are claimed both to save fuel and to improve the environmental conditions experienced within buildings . |
| 18 | Alberta , with an estimated 80 affected people , and British Columbia , with 115 , have now entered negotiations with provinical CHS chapters to determine compensation , while Prince Edward Island , and Saskatchewan are expected soon to follow suit . |
| 19 | However , there are two significant additional factors : on the one hand the parents use sign language and therefore growth in the infants from gesture into sign ( rather than into speech ) is predicted , but on the other hand just over half of the sample infants are hearing and are acquiring both sign language and spoken English during this phase . |
| 20 | They are added here to give brightness and to enhance the contrast with the horns . |
| 21 | Much of that public sector support has been designed also to attract investment from private enterprise . |
| 22 | The awards , which have been designed specifically to commend excellence within newspaper publishing , were organised by Newspaper Focus magazine . |
| 23 | A large number of experiments have also been carried out to investigate laterality effects in tachistoscopic perception of non-verbal stimuli . |
| 24 | Although this idea of hemispheric competition is not very precise , a number of studies have been carried out to investigate speech lateralisation among stutterers . |
| 25 | The selected mail message(s) have been deleted successfully using index 6.4.0 — Delete Mail . |
| 26 | For instance , the censuses of 1971 and 1981 investigated country of origin more fully than had been done previously to extend knowledge about the immigrant population . |
| 27 | In some cases , this has been done deliberately to encourage use of calculators , and also in order to change the emphasis in the aspects of number which are taught and learned . |
| 28 | Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime , which is a major aspect of youth crime . |
| 29 | So if you are fed up wasting time and money on the ground : |
| 30 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |