Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for the high interest you earn , your money is tied up and can not be withdrawn easily if you need some of it in a hurry . |
| 2 | Purchase behaviour will , again , be altered so as to come into line with the customary behaviour of the reference group . |
| 3 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 4 | Congress would remain free to re-order its priorities , but the overall balance of the budget could be altered only if approved by two-thirds of both houses of Congress , other than in time of war , when the measure could be waived by a simple majority . |
| 5 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 6 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll be competing rather than just surviving this season and the game against Wigan will be a indicator of what we are up against . |
| 8 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 9 | The remaining graves , probably about 280 — filled with up to 1,000 more weapons and jewellery items — will be excavated only if finance for future digs becomes available . |
| 10 | Items of particular relevance to futures trading are as follows : ( 1 ) A statement of the customer 's investment objectives ( unless included in a separate document ) : If futures trading is to be undertaken otherwise than for purely hedging purposes , it would be necessary to document that the customer 's investment objectives were speculative . |
| 11 | The use of the scarce resource on one opportunity ( project ) may mean that another opportunity can not be undertaken even though it would have generated a positive contribution in cash-flow terms . |
| 12 | Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons . |
| 13 | As for confession , which had been allowed to laymen , this was to be undertaken only when the penitent was in mortal danger : the emphasis now was not on contrition but on absolution which could only be given by a priest . |
| 14 | The Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary , Campbell Christie , appealed to parents of new Timex recruits to persuade their families not to cross picket lines with the warning that they would be sacked quickly when it suited the company . |
| 15 | Sylvia would be acknowledged to be Burkett 's daughter , she would perform some small chores , but chiefly be explained away as evidence of Hope 's goodness of heart in giving his ‘ man 's ’ daughter the chance of a change of air . |
| 16 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 17 | And of course , when Jesus came and he healed the people and he spoke words of , of deliverance to those who are demon oppressed and he spoke words of that brought help to those who are blind and so on , there is of course , er , to the natural mind , a very natural explanation , it can all be explained away because you can not do these things ! |
| 18 | Similarly arable farmer is no doubt to be explained historically as derived from the term arable farm ( in which we see an ascriptive adjective ) by means of an agentive suffix . |
| 19 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 20 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 21 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 22 | Patients , particularly women who are conditioned from childhood to be accepting rather than questioning , are given the sense that they must n't try to invade medical territory . |
| 23 | The paper says third-party software will be delayed too because it will have to be recompiled . |
| 24 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said the matter should not be dismissed just because Mr Brown had won his appeal . |
| 25 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |
| 26 | Thus the pleasures of heroin can be dismissed summarily as counting against , rather than for , the action of taking heroin , if we can say that it is a highly impure pleasure ( liable to lead to much wretchedness later ) . |
| 27 | If a petition is based on non-compliance with a statutory demand , the petition must not be dismissed only because the amount of the debt is over-stated in the demand unless , within the time limited for compliance , the debtor has given notice disputing the validity of the notice for this reason or , no such notice having been given , the debtor pays the correct amount ( r 6.25(3) ) . |
| 28 | But police officers can be dismissed only if severe disciplinary charges are proven against them . |
| 29 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 30 | ‘ Rule 5 : ( 1 ) Where there is a contract for the sale of unascertained or future goods by description , and goods of that description and in a deliverable state are unconditionally appropriated to the contract , either by the seller with the assent of the buyer , or by the buyer with the assent of the seller , the property in the goods then passes to the buyer ; and the assent may be express or implied , and may be given either before or after the appropriation is made . |