Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean . |
| 2 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 3 | Remember you have n't been in there yet have you ? |
| 4 | remember you have n't been in there yet have you ? |
| 5 | Three of these samples are from a single area close to the Gomakwe intrusion and are represented by open symbols in the figures , whereas the remainder ( solid symbols ) are from more widely spaced localities . |
| 6 | Christians who are perfect in righteousness , in peace and in joy are in very short supply this side of eternity . |
| 7 | Apart from clearing Mansell 's name if they upheld the appeal , the FIA tribunal would be of little further use to either the Englishman or his team . |
| 8 | I 'm under here somewhere to offer you advice on family or personal problems . |
| 9 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 10 | Callières stressed more than any of his predecessors the role of the diplomat as a moderating influence and the extent to which , through prudence and common sense , apparently divergent state interests could be at least partially harmonised . |
| 11 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 12 | This may be at least partially related to his dementia as the tumour appeared well controlled endoscopically . |
| 13 | The limitation of the power of flight and of many other capacities surrendered as a result of the insatiable appetite of the developing man for ever more ability , was to be at least partially compensated for by the advance of technology in a remote future . |
| 14 | Some of them , sometimes , can be at least partially satisfied vicariously rather than directly ( when we are audiences or spectators ) . |
| 15 | The response to intravenous ethanol seems to be at least partially mediated by cholinergic nerves . |
| 16 | For example , refractive errors ( those defects in the shape of the eye that prevent light rays from being brought sharply on to the retina in a single focus and which include short-sightedness , long-sightedness and astigmatism can often be at least partially corrected by the provision of appropriate lenses in eyeglasses . |
| 17 | Unconsolidated sediments , highly porous and friable rocks , as well as chips and cuttings , must be at least partially embedded in resin before slicing ( also see Section 8.5.5 ) . |
| 18 | Reassured that our political leaders are both aware of the problem 's growing dimensions and receptive to our rising anxieties , we wait in optimistic but realistic anticipation for crime to be at least effectively reduced . |
| 19 | One study reported less satisfactory results although these may be at least partly explained because patients were not brought back as often for follow up treatments as in other studies . |
| 20 | All the jobs above require the cylinder to be at least partly drained . |
| 21 | The survey is important because it shows that increasingly stringent EC regulations concerned with reducing nitrate levels in the water supply can be at least partly met through changing agricultural practices . |
| 22 | And this question can be at least partly reduced to : who used the new public space ? |
| 23 | For example , if a program calls for divergent responses to open questions and the teacher only accepts responses which he deems to be ‘ correct ’ , then the potential of the program to stimulate divergent thinking will be at least partly thwarted . |
| 24 | Among the Mundugamore , both sexes behaved in ways usually associated in our society with aggressive masculinity , and among the Tchambuli the ‘ normal ’ male-female roles seemed to be at least partly reversed ( Mead 1935 ) . |
| 25 | All to be at least partly resolved , that first night , in the act of love . |
| 26 | Even those who could not , or would not derive any benefit from this advice , must be at least partly seduced by its clarity and persuasiveness . |
| 27 | If the ‘ pincers ’ were to meet then the space for conventional capitalist ‘ management ’ — i.e. the hierarchal direction of enterprises in the pursuit of profit , recognising some form of responsibility to ‘ shareholders ’ but not to working people — would be at least severely restricted and at best eliminated . |
| 28 | Protected by their icy environment , northern folk were for long virtually isolated from southern influences . |
| 29 | In general , the report suggests that large areas of broadleaved woods have been converted to conifers , but that this process is now being at least partially reversed . |
| 30 | A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom . |