Example sentences of "[be] an [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being little more than thin skinned bags of sugary carbohydrate sap from the plants they are sucking , they are an easily taken source of energy for many predators , including other insects and birds — a slaughter that is countered by the extraordinarily rapid rate of reproduction . |
| 2 | Indeed , chronic diarrhoea has been an infrequently reported finding in studies of immunocompetent children with Cryptosporidium . |
| 3 | It had been an oddly unsatisfying service . |
| 4 | This restoration has been an off-again-on-again project for several years but recently work has resumed on the Bearcat , which will be the only two seat example flying . |
| 5 | However , you must remember to choose plant material that is sufficiently small to give a clear outline , otherwise what you hoped would be an easily read message will look more like an illegible jumble . |
| 6 | Each team had a total thirty-five handicap , so one imagined it would be an even match . |
| 7 | According to Hille , research and development spending for new products stands at 15 per cent compared with 85 per cent for existing products : this would be an even split by the end of the year , he said . |
| 8 | This can be either scanned into the Macintosh or it could be an already created MacPaint format drawing . |
| 9 | ‘ To know the law now offers such protection should help some of the difficulties associated with house purchasing which , for many , can be an extremely harrowing experience . |
| 10 | They may be seen as steps in the transition from the Family Practitioner Services being purely ‘ administered ’ services to being an actively managed service . |
| 11 | The two men knew each other much better now but , on the face of it , despite their joint passion for Sherlock Holmes and Eliot 's reliance upon Hayward 's editorial skills ( not only did he inspect the poetry , but he also removed social malapropisms from the drama ) , they were an oddly matched pair . |
| 12 | If the national curriculum were an experientially based , integrated curriculum it might be an accessible curriculum for all . |
| 13 | Our visual world is an immediately present one of colours and flat two-dimensional shapes . |
| 14 | Chervil is an easily grown herb which has a short life-cycle of one season . |
| 15 | I suppose it is an easily understood curiosity about the behaviour of those in the public eye . |
| 16 | These grumbles aside , the Clio is an easily driven , user-friendly car . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that up to 300 million tonnes of oil a year could be saved in the USSR by cutting waste , substituting gas for oil in industrial complexes and making more use of the vast coal reserves , but whether this will be achieved to any significant extent outside the essentially capitalist ethos where cost saving is an easily learned lesson , is doubtful . |
| 18 | A coda was appended to the equations of the system in the form of the restriction that where W is an exogenously given value for the money wage . |
| 19 | However Piaget 's theory of child development is an empirically grounded description of the structure of cognitive learning . |
| 20 | THE Heritage Plaza is an attractively finished shopping mall forming part of the popular Knight Ride complex right in the centre of Carrickfergus . |
| 21 | Jolly Sensible Arête is graded E2 5c , whereas in reality it is an adequately protected HVS 5a . |
| 22 | But it is an astutely packaged and worthwhile collection nonetheless , with translations from the Zulu on the sleeve . |
| 23 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 24 | Colour clashes which would make Timmy Mallet vomit on sight are the order of the night , and the music is an equally mixed bag , although it is peppered with enough goodies to eat between meals without ruining your appetite . |
| 25 | Father-daughter incest , and particularly stepfather-daughter incest , is an increasingly reported and prosecuted form of child sexual abuse , and the urgent need for prevention outweighs the value of any post hoc cures , penal or therapeutic . |
| 26 | At Stocks Hill Huggate is an individually designed and superbly appointed detached country house of spacious proportions situated on an elevated plot of some one third of an acre . |
| 27 | Nevertheless basic slag is an artificially produced fertilizer , and its acceptance by organic farmers who reject ‘ artificials ’ , poses a dilemma . |
| 28 | ‘ That is an as-yet unproven accusation , ’ Bishop said slowly , ‘ albeit with some corroborative substance to it . |
| 29 | The 1949 Armistice Line is an internationally recognized benchmark in any solution . |
| 30 | It is disappointing that , although there is an internationally recognized symbol for information ( the small letter ‘ i ’ ) , this could not in some way find itself incorporated in either of these logos . |