Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some things like our looks can not easily be changed , but our appearance can be greatly improved simply through giving attention to good grooming and intelligently selecting our clothes . |
| 2 | The next time lesbians and gays are involved in any attempt to effect major change , we will be better served not by fitting on to the agenda of others , but by organizing independently and making alliances with other groups seeking progressive , structural , social changes . |
| 3 | Perhaps the point can be best brought out by considering first authority as it functions in one , not untypical , context . |
| 4 | Those points that fall outside this envelope can be further analysed directly by pointing to a particular location . |
| 5 | The policy of the 1870s was relaxed due to awareness of the hardship inflicted — those reduced to the extreme of applying for poor relief even in 1870 were those with no other resort , and their numbers could be further reduced only by increasing their hardship . |
| 6 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 7 | Thus the propositional schema " x is a man " can be appropriately filled in by inserting a proper name , say " Jones " , in the place occupied by the variable , yielding a meaningful proposition whose truth-value happens to be true . |
| 8 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 9 | No one supposes that international relations can be fully understood just by assembling a patchwork of what the actors say was in their minds . |
| 10 | My argument is that this harmonious interpretation can be fully understood only by interpreting Dicey 's entire theory in the light of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 11 | All these ideas , I shall argue , are structurally interdependent , and their meaning can be fully elucidated only by exploring their structural interconnectedness . |
| 12 | Weediness , it would seem , can not be fully described simply by totting up a score . |
| 13 | It is claimed that the meaning of existential assertions can be fully clarified only by clarifying the mode of being of the one who makes , and understands , such assertions . |
| 14 | Wooden blades can be used in weighted or unweighted form and can be neatly finished off by covering with heatshrink sleeving ( below ) . |
| 15 | The fact that so many of hierarchy 's problems show up in the form of individual misbehavior has led to one of the most widespread illusions in business , namely that a company 's managerial leadership can be significantly improved solely by doing psychotherapeutic work on the personalities and attitudes of its managers . |
| 16 | ‘ If I were not , I would be considerably put out at having been compelled to tidy my desk ! ’ he said . |