Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have maintained and/or developed an extensive network of personal relationships in middle age are held to be most favourably placed in coping with the problems of old age . |
| 2 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 3 | For some reason , Hitler thought that the United States of America would be much too occupied with fighting the Japanese in the Pacific , to concern itself with Europe , so he decided to declare war on the United States on 11th . |
| 4 | Other types of interaction can be much more marked in cueing individuals into major roles . |
| 5 | So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Oral presentation places an additional load on the memory in mental tasks which was found to be only partly ameliorated by supplying the numbers or other information required to answer the questions . |
| 8 | Although they are more powerful grammars than context-free grammars , context-sensitive grammars have been found to be less well suited for stating grammatical constraints than indexed languages . |
| 9 | This point can be more clearly illustrated by considering the prolonged controversy surrounding the effects of modern farming methods on the rural landscape-This has created as much , if not more , acrimony between farming and environmental interests in recent years , with the destruction of traditional landscape features replacing the extermination of birds of prey as a rallying point for public attention . |
| 10 | Perhaps partly as a result of this and perhaps partly as a result of the government 's view that regional aid should be more immediately directed towards assisting business skills and enterprise within smaller companies , a further major review of regional policy was published in 1988 ( DTI , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Léger determined that in future the motifs of his paintings would be more closely connected to working people . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Short T1 inversion recovery MRI sequences enable a tumour of the base of skull to be more readily identified by nulling the high signal from bone marrow , and Gd-DTPA is of particular value in the assessment of lesions of the base of skull and sinuses and in assessing intracranial spread of tumours . |
| 15 | The same computer techniques could be more usefully employed in standardising the printed word during transition , and the public would become acclimatised through everyday reading rather than need any special training . |
| 16 | Some lone mothers are therefore likely to take the view that their children can be more securely supported by remaining on income support . |
| 17 | I 'd be far better employed in getting on with some work . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |