Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it .
2 Barthes 's ‘ Introduction to the structural analysis of narrative ’ deals with more than one level of narrative , but presumes that they are hierarchically arranged and that , therefore , to a certain extent , they can be discussed separately .
3 Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ .
4 Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome .
5 As for helmets , I have never been convinced that they have much to offer , and my views are broadly confirmed by recent reviews in the CTC magazine and the journal ‘ New Cyclist ’ ( neither organisation being anti-helmet ; the reviews are widely based and fair ) .
6 But , for all their youthfulness , they are widely experienced and shrewd , and possess not only uncommon physiques but rare bowling actions .
7 Their residential courses held throughout the year for both beginners and advanced students are widely known and popular ; students come from all over the world .
8 Creativity and ingenuity are widely distributed and evident in the natural activities of children outside school .
9 The four subjects chosen ( English , maths , history and geography ) represented key subjects were communication skills are widely used and teacher-pupil dialogue at its greatest .
10 Statistical approaches to this problem are widely used and some of the basic ideas are introduced below .
11 Statistical approaches to this problem are widely used and some of the basic ideas are introduced below .
12 Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community .
13 The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic .
14 The difficulties of the present valuation system have been widely recognised and alternative proposals have been made .
15 It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income .
16 The growth of executive power at the expense of legislative authority has been widely recognized as another feature of capitalism affecting bureaucracy , especially as capitalism moves through its monopoly phase , or as the class struggle intensifies and threatens the process of capital accumulattion .
17 But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate .
18 The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle .
19 It has been widely held that normochromic anaemia is indicative of chronic renal failure , but recent epidemiological evidence supports our findings that anaemia is also commonly present in patients with both ARF and AonCRF , and is , therefore , not a helpful discriminant .
20 It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] .
21 I hope that the House will never forget that no one is guilty of an offence unless they have been duly tried and convicted and that everyone is entitled to the same presumption of innocence .
22 Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe .
23 It is equally important to ensure that all joints and connections between the wires , uprights , and anchorages are properly made and strong enough for the job ( see Figure 13 ) .
24 Financial accounting concerns the need to have systems in place which ensure that financial transaction ( such as the payment of wages ) are properly conducted and that appropriate records are maintained .
25 A long term test of the Tempa Rossa 2 well has been successfully completed and good production rates were achieved from a sidetrack to the original discovery well .
26 Certain items in the accounts to 31 December 1992 have been successfully challenged and earlier years are now being looked at .
27 The point had been successfully made that such a case belonged to the Church 's jurisdiction , not to the Crown 's .
28 Eastern bloc countries are uniformly analysed as quasi-totalitarian regimes controlled by a unified , corporate ( single body ) elite , which fuses political and administrative powers and monopolizes all decision-making .
29 The arguments against housing mentally handicapped people in such institutions are not founded , in the main , on the premise that they are badly run or insensitive to the needs of their ‘ patients ’ , but rather that no mentally handicapped person should be institutionalised and segregated from the community as a whole unless they require hospital and medical care .
30 Have a knife handy to cut away any really old slings which are badly bleached or frayed , or else exhibit scorch marks from the friction of the ropes of previous parties .
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