Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] 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 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 3 | Although publicity shy , he recently and rather reluctantly agreed to be interviewed in his cottage . |
| 4 | Much of the pain centres upon the LEA ; a structure which was pivotal and which is rapidly and rather messily ceasing to be so . |
| 5 | Points are always joined by straight lines and so curved armholes , necklines and so on have to be built up gradually by plotting a series of closely positioned points . |
| 6 | Training schemes , recognized qualifications , professional institutes , salary negotiating machinery and so on have to be developed . |
| 7 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 8 | Net realisable value is the actual or estimated selling price ( net of trade discounts ) less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distribution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . ) |
| 11 | ( This is not too difficult and usually only has to be done about every three months , when the newsletter is due . ) |
| 12 | In the past , many tea companies have included other teas in the blend , but more and more now seem to be reverting to pure China tea for this popular flavoured brew . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been sent a very favourable letter from the council and there now looks to be no problems on that score , ’ added Deakin . |
| 14 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 15 | And there always seems to be some shed which has been taken down somewhere , yielding very inflammable material , so we show no signs of running short . |
| 16 | The hidden agenda — and there always seems to be one when the Left discusses lesbian and gay rights — was Marxism Today 's distrust of the ‘ Trots ’ who controlled these councils . |
| 17 | Everything is worked out , every detail of orchestration and balance , and there always seems to be an inner logic to the composition — there is n't a bar that is n't absolutely essential . |
| 18 | " 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | However , together , these pavements are too few and too poorly recorded to be considered the diagnostic mosaics of this group . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I really and truly only meant to be helpful . ’ |
| 23 | Research over the past years has begun to answer lots of questions , but much still remains to be sorted out . |
| 24 | But much still needs to be done to recruit staff at every level ( consultant psychiatrists , mental nurses , social workers , teachers , etc. ) , to up-grade the hospital and residential facilities , particularly for the chronic cases , and to make available a more flexible range of community services to those individuals or families who are coping with mental illness or handicap without resort to hospital care . |
| 25 | But much more needed to be done if the CEGB 's post-Sizewell tide of optimism was to be turned . |
| 26 | Some of it has been disturbed by later developments : the site of the Early Iron Age , classical and Hellenistic city of Knossos overlaps with that of the Minoan city ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) — but nevertheless much remains to be excavated . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Since the report , the local education authorities ' career service has generally improved its provision of specialist careers officers for helping the handicapped , but more still needs to be done in this area . |
| 29 | He fluctuated between varying combinations of the defence of Saudi Arabia , the restoration of the Kuwaiti government and state integrity , the key strategic American interest in the Gulf , the oil supply , freedom and international law , and the much hinted-at wholesale destruction of a ruler and a Middle Eastern power recently supported but now suddenly discovered to be evil . |
| 30 | I 'm pretty certain her leg is broken , but how badly remains to be seen . ’ |