Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 2 | Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties . |
| 3 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 4 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 5 | However , these classifications can not successfully be extrapolated to gastrointestinal lymphomas as MALT lymphocytes and their derived lymphomas seem to have a physiology that differs from their nodal counterparts . |
| 6 | The literariness of poetic rhythm , for example , can not necessarily be ascribed to mere rhythm , but will more likely derive from disruption of the rhythm . |
| 7 | High status contacts can not normally be attracted to small exhibitions — they may wish to speak to top management or require personal invitation plus entertainment . |
| 8 | Criticism has not always been related to specific cases . |
| 9 | That a range of quarries was exploited in the Mediterranean area is not in doubt , but particular sculpted pieces can not always be attributed to particular quarries on purely visual grounds . |
| 10 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 11 | There are times when conditions develop which can not readily be related to known disease conditions . |
| 12 | ( An exception to this is the dichotic monitoring technique developed by Geffen which was discussed in Chapter 4 but this has not yet been applied to large scale studies of left handers . ) |
| 13 | In this respect they are probably quite unlike the apes , who have not yet been subjected to evolutionary pressures for rapid acquisition of symbol systems . |
| 14 | It will also be important to commission long-term studies of the career progression of Compact graduates and this may more properly be offered to professional researchers , perhaps located in higher education . |
| 15 | Although the advantage of real volume planning , an assured outcome , is lost by the new technique , it was expected that cash planning would mean that government expenditure could more easily be related to expected government revenue . |
| 16 | One unfortunate consequence of this rather cavalier approach to the notion of class by sociolinguists is that meaningful debate on the question of how linguistic variability can most pertinently be related to social structure tends not to take place . |
| 17 | Although levels of sight do not relate directly to levels of performance in many school activities , there are some direct links between some of the specific forms of visual handicap and the way in which educational materials can most usefully be presented to individual children . |
| 18 | If the communication had been sent to the Paternoster Review , it had almost certainly been sent to other papers or journals , possibly to some of the nationals . |
| 19 | If this is successful it will almost certainly be extended to other stores . |
| 20 | With the publication of the interim and final reports of the National Curriculum History Working Group in 1989 and 1990 " the history debate " finally went public , no longer being confined to in-house shareholders ; that is to teachers and students . |
| 21 | The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness . |
| 22 | A breakdown in the toilet habits of old dogs can again often be attributed to medical causes , and there is little that can be done , although in cystitis ( inflammation of the bladder ) , appropriate medication may resolve the problem rapidly . |
| 23 | It is a much needed long-term approach to widening life chances for people who can all too easily be consigned to standardized services and to cramped , narrow , and stultifying lives — but it requires significant resources . |
| 24 | EIB money has never before been offered to Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Of the land mammals , eleven are unique , including two that have almost certainly subsequently been introduced to nearby smaller islands by man . |