Example sentences of "[adv] be properly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitamin deficiency Vitamin deficiency can only be properly diagnosed and treated by a doctor , but there are certain fairly obvious signs which should be noted , bearing in mind that an old person who is obese can still be suffering from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency through eating the wrong kinds of food . |
| 2 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 3 | The Raworth regenerative system could only be properly tested if the whole service was worked by regenerative cars and this was now possible . |
| 4 | This can only be properly tested in a laboratory , but all dyes used today are both permanent and colour-fast . |
| 5 | Any model of skilled reading which incorporates this view can only be properly tested if the mechanism by which unfamiliar printed letter strings are translated into phonological form is described in adequate detail . |
| 6 | ‘ Popular music ’ ( or whatever ) can only be properly viewed within the context of the whole musical field , within which it is an active tendency ; and this field , together with its internal relationships , is never still — it is always in movement . |
| 7 | We believe that results can only be properly evaluated if the problems connected with the study are made manifest rather than concealed . |
| 8 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 9 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 10 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 11 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 12 | Each sphere is typically characterized by a representative institution , cohesive structures of practices , organized and patterned , which can only be properly understood in terms of their transnational effects . |
| 13 | It is that such questions can only be properly pursued in the company of the disciplinary studies . |
| 14 | The view that the ethical aspects of preventive trials can only be properly considered locally is unjustified . |
| 15 | Samuel Smith took the view that the spiritual needs of deaf people could only be properly provided for if they had their own church and an ordained minister . |
| 16 | The next heart-stopping moment can only be properly described in the jockey 's own words : |
| 17 | The back position can only be properly used in strong winds on a reach ; in lighter winds the board will just sit on its tail causing lots of drag . |
| 18 | Such understandings and self-conceptions can only be properly appreciated by combining those aspects of social theory which incorporate concepts of class , state , gender or ethnicity with the understandings offered by biology and psychology . |
| 19 | Assessments of the current situation in the Soviet Union have meaning in Nizan 's eyes only in the context of this material progress : " Soviet achievements can not be properly evaluated unless they are linked historically to the effort which produced them " he stresses . |
| 20 | To claim that there is only one substance sounds like an answer to the question " How many substances are there ? " and Spinoza 's conception of substance is such that this question can not be properly asked . |
| 21 | Often the reasons for being passed over or failing a job interview will not be properly explained . |
| 22 | The country can not be properly served by a Government who pretend that they can somehow call a halt to or defer the agreed purpose of the rest of the Community . |
| 23 | I should have two at least — three even — or else I would not be properly cared for . ’ |
| 24 | Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books . |
| 25 | What is the point of maintaining a proper legal framework for trade unions if law-breaking unions can not be properly punished by the courts ? |
| 26 | Some people think that the law of judicial review can not be properly understood unless it is studied against the background of a particular area of governmental activity such as housing or immigration , in order to see how the general rules are use to deal with particular problems . |
| 27 | So important a part did this crisis play in determining the events which are the subject of this report that they can not be properly understood without an appreciation of the extent to which the crisis overshadowed everything else that was happening in the area at the time . |
| 28 | This class , whatever we call it , can not be properly understood and its historic role can not be adequately explained , outside the necessity that produces the eternal contradiction of capitalist accumulation on a mass scale . |
| 29 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 30 | Do n't be tempted to get a boot several sizes larger than you normally need to get the correct width fitting ; a boot that is too long will not be comfortable , and after some use you will find that the leather will stretch and your foot will not be properly supported . |