Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money at call is money which can be withdrawn at only a few hours ' notice . |
| 2 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 3 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 4 | However , it is axiomatic that if such successful strategies have been so developed they have not been published and therefore can not be commented upon here or in any other similar text . |
| 5 | But some malformations can not be diagnosed until late in pregnancy . |
| 6 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 7 | Unlike conventional bureaucrats , whose managerial skills are capable of being duplicated , technocrats can not be purged or replaced easily , nor can scientific — professional viewpoints be altered from outside . |
| 8 | This one had a whole lot of switches on so it can be altered from outside without going inside . |
| 9 | A cuckoo flew low over the reed bed , to be mobbed at once by two reed warblers . |
| 10 | Unused storage positions should be filled with dummy records , so that they can be recognized at once . |
| 11 | Like the psychologist J.J. Gibson , Ullman attempts to show that many perceptual features can be recognized by relatively low-level psychophysiological mechanisms , whose functioning relies on the information available in the ambient light rather than on high-level concepts or cerebral schemata ( Gibson 1950 , 1966 , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Whatever the nature of the inducing signal , it is a signal that can be recognized by quite different species . |
| 13 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 14 | The project cycle , shown in Fig. 5.1 , may be recognized in almost all projects . |
| 15 | The budget originates in the Executive branch and is sent to both houses for approval ; it can be amended by both — and usually is , very substantially — but the final version must be approved by both the President and the two houses acting jointly . |
| 16 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 17 | The posturing must stop , concerted steps taken and some of the money being channelled into development should be redirected into more stringent enforcement of anti-doping measures . |
| 18 | Those are gon na be redirected in here erm as well but it turns out that erm those two types roughly equate to forty out of two thousand which is half a , half a percent ? |
| 19 | Tension in the hands and feet can be eased by alternately stretching and clenching fingers and toes half a dozen times . |
| 20 | When they are all put together under topic headings the full interview schedule will then tell us how long the interview is likely to take and if it is much too long some pruning can be undertaken at once . |
| 21 | Church growth data-gathering needs to be undertaken at least at two levels , national and local . |
| 22 | But Craig Brown 's boys remain long odds on achieving that aim with extremely tough tasks yet to be undertaken in both Portugal and Italy . |
| 23 | Although small scale operations might be undertaken by quite small communities with only simple equipment , intensive mining on a larger scale involved a concentration of disciplined labour , as well as capital resources , of a kind available only to societies organized as states . |
| 24 | In truth , the fact that a position of power might be attained as a result of ‘ private ’ contracting in itself says nothing about the legitimacy of the possession of that power , and hence even if the company could be explained in purely contractual terms this would , without more , have little impact on the question of the propriety of state intervention . |
| 25 | In his ‘ Closing statement ’ Jakobson does not explicitly reject this view , which after all he played an important part in developing ; but speaking as a linguist he insists that the difference between poetic and non-poetic texts can be explained in purely linguistic terms . |
| 26 | The positivists ' emphasis on observable ‘ facts ’ is due largely to the belief that human behaviour can be explained in much the same way as the behaviour of matter . |
| 27 | Whatever the unit , its activities can be explained from without or understood from within . |
| 28 | This great expansion is to be explained by newly available resources — available in Lorraine because of the Thomas process , in Scandinavia because of railway-building — a fall in costs thanks to a better transport network , the development of integrated plants and improvements in fuel technology . |
| 29 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 30 | The idea that the educational achievements of black students can be explained by genetically inherited lower intellectual ability relative to whites , as measured by IQ tests , has been even more vigorously challenged , with Kamin providing one of the most effective critiques ( Kamin , 1977 ) . |