Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 2 | He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare . |
| 3 | The target has been widely criticized as too low . |
| 4 | Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable . |
| 5 | If copies are sent less than 21 days before , they may be deemed to have been duly sent if so agreed by all the members entitled to attend and vote . |
| 6 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 8 | With the range of scientific dating methods now available , archaeologists are better equipped than ever before to construct a reliable sequence of dates . |
| 9 | Frequently they took refuge in platitudes and rhetoric , delivering as unassailable truths ideas which are elsewhere accepted as very much open to debate . |
| 10 | Mr Stage said : ‘ Funds are desperately needed as well as equipment . |
| 11 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
| 12 | Such laws , although sometimes run together with causal laws , are best regarded as otherwise . |
| 13 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 14 | Quixotic ideas of dismissing the batsmen are largely ignored as comparatively irrelevant . |
| 15 | Whether or not third States are finally included as indirectly injured States in the terms of Draft Article 5 ( 3 ) , development of international law in this respect is crucial to an examination of the rights and obligations of third parties . |
| 16 | Academic barriers to learning in the form of ‘ gateway ’ qualifications have been progressively diminished until even the most hidebound institutions have evolved ‘ open-access ’ programmes . |
| 17 | Cars which are generally regarded as highly desirable , such as convertibles , will enjoy the most dramatic change in their fortunes . |
| 18 | Such transgressions range from the socially acceptable parking on the ubiquitous yellow lines to the stigmatising drunken driving and eventually to offences which are generally regarded as morally reprehensible . |
| 19 | In so far as these subordinated forms of racism are granted some relative autonomy , and are not treated as simply an echo of the dominant ideology , the argument usually reverts to the classical tenets of a ‘ necessary false consciousness ’ . |
| 20 | The experience of witnessing psychosocially normal people from a wide range of abilities and backgrounds telling the stories of their individual experience and what has been done to them , would be the best method of ensuring that sufferers from addictive disease are not treated as dismissively in the future as they have tended to be in the past . |
| 21 | But outsiders of this extreme sort are not treated as fully normal human beings . |
| 22 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 23 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 24 | Reactive attitudes of this sort are contrasted with so-called ‘ objective ’ ones , which we adopt towards agents who are not regarded as morally responsible : thus we often try not to resent injuries done to us by small children or the mad , because we recognise that , in some sense , they do not know what they are doing . |
| 25 | The Woonerven experience in Holland was an early indication Or the benefits that can arise when changes in the law accompany changes in physical design , yet these cross-fertilisation benefits are not realised when just one form of speed deterrent is strengthened . |
| 26 | This merely amounts to saying that if two things are observed as spatially distinct , then they are not observed as spatially indistinct , which is true enough but hardly illuminating . |
| 27 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 28 | Even if legitimate authority is limited by the condition that its directives are not binding if clearly wrong , and I wish to express no opinion on whether it is so limited , it can play its mediating role . |
| 29 | Marxist views are not approached as merely theoretical formulations but also as guidelines for action . |
| 30 | At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining . |