Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working successfully involves being able to cope with 100 per cent of the cases which arise . |
| 2 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 3 | He established that the body which was badly decomposed was that of a male aged between 16 and 25 . |
| 4 | It was the best time of his life , and everything since has been second best . |
| 5 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 6 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 7 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 8 | The model so formed is appropriate for the further stages in the methodology and the database will be shareable , a fundamental justification for the database approach . |
| 9 | As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment . |
| 10 | Indeed , but the impression remains stronger than the denial and one is left wondering why they chose 1950 as the cut-off point , if not to put a comfortable distance between ‘ then ’ and ‘ now ’ : the dark ages of the past and present enlightenment , which they rightly insist is illusory . |
| 11 | Only ‘ Spinster ’ and ‘ Bawd ’ , two poems that I suddenly realised were dramatic monologues anyway . |
| 12 | Contexts in which only make is possible fall into two types . |
| 13 | The other type of expressive effect found in contexts where only make is possible can be illustrated by ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) : ( 154 ) … beautiful canvases of mountains and forms . |
| 14 | The following examples , where only make is possible , are more difficult : ( 157 ) … the famous Howe sewing machine . |
| 15 | What has been less recognized is that legal structures constitute the family and roles within it . |
| 16 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 17 | Nissan 's success in the UK hitherto has been due almost entirely to a totally independent company founded back in 1968 by an East European named Octav Botnar . |
| 18 | Absent apparently has been any appreciation of the unfortunate historical precedent when Britain last linked her economic fortunes to those of another nation . |
| 19 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 20 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 21 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 22 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 23 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 24 | Louise picked out a pretty little pink dress that nobody could possibly take exception to and so honour was satisfied . |
| 25 | So weaving is ideal if you have a yarn you want to use but which is too thick for your machine in the normal way . |
| 26 | He pondered whether the highly educated are better than common folk at resisting ‘ disastrous collective suggestions ’ ( Naziism , anti-Semitism , belligerence ) . |
| 27 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 28 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 29 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 30 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |