Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 2 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 3 | Those most coveted were the ones with pockets to hold all the valuables salvaged and brought away in fists . |
| 4 | Voters tell pollsters that the electoral outcome they most favour is a coalition of Socialists and the United Left . |
| 5 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 6 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 7 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 8 | How the heavy seeds of goat 's rue become so widely dispersed is a mystery ; nor is there a satisfactory explanation for the very large numbers of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 9 | The long-standing philosophical controversy into which this topic most obviously fits is the political one about equality . |
| 10 | So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley . |
| 11 | So fascinated was the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior with railways that his table was adorned with a silver centrepiece , in effect a classical station adorned with statuary and urns , from which there emerged a silver model of a train which circulated liqueurs and cigars . |
| 12 | From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts . |
| 13 | Remember that suicide only stopped being a crime in 1956 and until then people were imprisoned if they were found to have attempted suicide . |
| 14 | That this second part , covering officers ' uniforms , has been long delayed is the responsibility of the magazine , not of the author . |
| 15 | The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large . |
| 16 | Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA . |
| 17 | Confident that the anointing they have all received is the person of the Spirit of the Anointed One , who remains with them ( 2:27 ) , John knows he can safely leave their instruction to that same Spirit who is true and who shows them how to abide in Christ , the Christ who will one day return ( 2:28f ) . |
| 18 | So limited are the staples , materials and real estate of an atoll-dweller that every food , object and square yard of his diminutive space becomes invested with mana , an invisible , inter-connecting kind of holy force , making everything individually " alive " . |
| 19 | It had long stopped being a remote dream to Rose . |
| 20 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 21 | This label was further obscured by the fact that the person so designated was a support teacher for one year group and was then timetabled as a subject teacher for another year group . |
| 22 | So highly regarded was the mistletoe , that it had to be cut with a golden knife . |
| 23 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 24 | The beach at Barra ( population 1500 ) was a different story from the day before — blue sky and lesser wind , so landing was a routine non-event . |
| 25 | The almost universal impression that the Government , until recently , thought making things no longer greatly mattered is a misunderstanding , he says . |
| 26 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 27 | This method alone has been the downfall of countless ' big fish up and down the country , and I foresee its popularity increasing in the coming seasons . |
| 28 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 29 | Most significant of all has been the fact that it is now possible for banks to engage in a full range of securities related business along the same lines as the German universal banks , a practice which had hitherto been avoided in the UK through the imposition of self-imposed constraints . |
| 30 | Investors have frequently been offered special inducements , but the biggest inducement of all has been the underpricing of many of the issues and the chance of an immediate profit . |