Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes . |
| 2 | The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina . |
| 3 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 4 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 5 | I 'm obviously not meant to be rich … he says , pouring himself another beer in Spain ! ’ |
| 6 | So often compelled to be distant , at close quarters she is frank , informal , funny , direct and possessed of an uncanny ability to charm the least star-struck . |
| 7 | When the news was broken to Vaclav Havel in the middle of Jon Snow 's television interview he stopped the cameras , appalled , much too moved to be able to make an appropriate instant response . |
| 8 | The fact that work performed-by one group is not necessarily found to be repeatable by another is nothing new . |
| 9 | Their activities were thus not only believed to be tangible proof of the truths of Christianity , but were also an essential link between men and a somewhat remote but terrifying god . |
| 10 | Children are not only encouraged to be proud of who they are , but to discuss any differences . ’ |
| 11 | The press are not normally allowed to be present during chambers applications . |
| 12 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 13 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 14 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 15 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 16 | That political will does not exist because public opinion has not yet begun to be aware of the scale of possible changes that governments will ask their publics to accept . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 19 | But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not , happily , any longer felt to be sufficient . |
| 20 | erm At least it can be more nearly said to be mental than anything else . |
| 21 | In non-western countries the model of health care which has been imported and which is still often considered to be optimal is one based on the same medical model . |
| 22 | But it is a language once again demonstrated to be volatile , unable to have its discursive play controlled , de-centring any attempt at a structured organisation . |
| 23 | Repetitive waves — namely , two or more separate peaks in response to a single swallow are also generally believed to be abnormal . |
| 24 | Students are clearly not expected to be able to question the linguistic judgments of commentators from a position of substantial technical expertise . |
| 25 | The opening of the Aswan Dam in 1970 was also initially considered to be beneficial to Egypt 's agricultural productivity , as its capacity to control the Nile 's sometimes erratic flow facilitated the conversion of all arable land to perennial cropping . |
| 26 | Fish , too , often incorrectly thought to be incommunicative and largely undemonstrative creatures , even ‘ sing ’ , like birds , and communicate territorial , sexual and social signals in the realm of low-frequency sound . |
| 27 | Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere . |
| 28 | In my tender pre-teen years , I had n't yet learned to be analytical — far less critical . |
| 29 | However , if recall is then not found to be effective , the review periods must be brought closer together again . |
| 30 | The central functions required to service the large mainframes are no longer perceived to be necessary on the scale they once were with the development of distributed end-user computing and communications , and a generation of users who are not only ‘ literate ’ but competent technically . |