Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , although our attention will naturally be more strongly drawn to established senses , to limit the discussion in principle to these would lead to a distorted picture of word-meaning .
2 The problem is less obvious but deep-rooted , and can perhaps be most clearly formulated in the following question : Given the turbulent and unstable historical context of post-1914 France , is it possible to produce novels which are technically and artistically successful , politically effective , and accurately reflect contemporary social reality ?
3 The underlying ideas are very complicated ; they can perhaps be most easily visualized in terms of Schrödinger 's cat .
4 This concept can perhaps be more readily appreciated by looking at Fig. 1.1 which also clearly indicates that whilst the elements of Q are totally distinct from those of Q[x] , nonetheless Q[x] contains the subsystem Q which to all intents and purposes is the " same " as Q so that , if it proves convenient , Q may be identified with it .
5 Althusser 's rereading of Marx can thus be as usefully considered in the context of theories of the history of science as of structuralism ; a certain conflation between the two has been possible because both were opposed to humanistic and phenomenological theories of knowledge in general and to historicism in particular .
6 Because there will usually be a common understanding between the two Japanese , the Japanese businessman whom one wishes to meet will generally be more favourably disposed to hearing one 's opinion than if one walks in without an introduction .
7 Preclinical staff usually have busy schedules and may not be particularly well oriented to clinical matters .
8 ‘ Had Inverclyde had a policy of installing smoke detectors , and had this house been fitted with them , you and I would not be here today talking about this . ’
9 Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign .
10 You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures .
11 But — the third condition — prey families must not be too easily detected by predators .
12 This is a matter which can not be too carefully watched since failure to comply renders the member liable to heavy penalties .
13 The moral to be drawn from these examples is that apparent compatibility of readings must not be too hastily accepted as proof of generality : each case must be examined carefully to determine whether there are special factors preventing the appearance of zeugma .
14 But receptivity to new ideas is best achieved in organizations which have mutuality of trust where it is known that you will not be too harshly blamed for mistakes .
15 What is consoling is that one may be perfectly sure that if one perishes in the barbed wire , they will not be too much affected by the loss .
16 In our life-long quest for true fulfilment and for happiness may we not be too often diverted by striving for things which are worldly and too easily discarded .
17 When the Rump was restored in May , he appeared before it to urge that the government ‘ may not be too long trusted in any man 's hands : that it may not be perpetuated to men ’ .
18 In our cynical era , we might not be so easily bamboozled by ‘ the prophet 's ’ assertion that God , who is presumably on permanent nightshift , speaks to him in his sleep and has commanded the supply of seven frails .
19 Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors .
20 A method similar to that described above is still probably the most suitable for producing concave trunk mouldings for long-case clocks mentioned in Mr Robey 's second question although they may not be so easily manipulated over the saw bench , particularly if they are stop-ended as the ends may present problems .
21 ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . )
22 The majority of domains , however , do not share these characteristics and may not be so well represented within the LOB corpus .
23 The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion .
24 Their relevance outside the situation for which they were designed , where eventual aims can not be so readily related to learning objectives , should not therefore be taken on trust ( see Widdowson 1983 ) .
25 But sonar echoes received from a narrow beam of sound directed dead ahead would not be so readily received by laterally placed ears .
26 Behaviour and DNA are uncomfortable partners , for mind functions can not be so readily consigned to a molecular coding .
27 ( 6 ) that the spending plans should be realistic in the impact they will make in any particular curriculum area ( e.g that the money should not be so thinly spread across departments as to be unlikely to influence significantly the work of any one of them )
28 The Incorporation of Weavers could not be more closely connected with carpets and it was under their aegis that Stoddard Templeton took part .
29 This was the general reply from partners , who were specifically asked not only whether the course would not be more appropriately located in a Third World country but also for the experience of institutions that already have similar courses or related aims .
30 Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ?
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