Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 2 | The creation of truth has , from time to time been manifest in religious thinking , but it has been either not recognised as such , or deliberately not admitted to be such . |
| 3 | Although publicity shy , he recently and rather reluctantly agreed to be interviewed in his cottage . |
| 4 | In Cocks v. Thanet DC the House of Lords applied this rule and held that an applicant who wanted to challenge a decision of a local authority to the effect that he was intentionally homeless and so not entitled to be housed , had to use AJR procedure because his only rights in respect of the decision were public law rights , namely that the decision would be made in accordance with rules of public law . |
| 5 | At the Salon des Indépendants all these artists were grouped together in Salle 45 , together with the work of Morgan Russel and MacDonald Wright , who called themselves ‘ Synchromists ’ and somewhat pretentiously purported to be representatives of a new school which was to be the culmination of all European painting ; they were , in fact , rapidly absorbed into the more vital Orphist movement . |
| 6 | " Tim was four years older than me , and quite clearly destined to be something successful in life , " he would remember , " so I thought it better to stay with him . |
| 7 | I 've learnt that life is deeper than I 'd thought and certainly not meant to be skimmed along . |
| 8 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 9 | However , together , these pavements are too few and too poorly recorded to be considered the diagnostic mosaics of this group . |
| 10 | She was wearing what she considered to be an ageless garment — a hip-length coat of black watered taffeta ; the shoulders were rather too narrow and too sharply defined to be precisely fashionable , but the material was of most superior quality . |
| 11 | ‘ I really and truly only meant to be helpful . ’ |
| 12 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 13 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 14 | It was just the mating of two bodies , essential for procreation , but certainly not meant to be enjoyed . |