Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee system , the greater resources of staff and money available to members , and the relatively weak calls of party loyalty have combined to suggest that this role can most successfully be performed by the United States Congress . |
| 2 | This is where the skills of skimming a text to gain a general impression , and scanning to glean specific points , are very useful , and it is at this point within the process of finding information that they would perhaps most effectively be taught . |
| 3 | But it has always been recognised that , where individuals desire that services of a special kind which , though not within the obligations of a police authority , can most effectively be rendered by them , should be performed by members of the police force , the police authorities may ( to use an expression which is found in the Police Pensions Act 1890 ) ‘ lend ’ the services of constables for that purpose in consideration of payment . |
| 4 | It is within the overall context of national development that regional development can most effectively be addressed and actioned . |
| 5 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 6 | The investigation of the sources of these emotions will provide information about how happiness can most effectively be pursued . |
| 7 | How can the time children spend in classrooms most effectively be used ? |
| 8 | More fundamentally , the decision in Katsikas raises the issue of whether the employee can most effectively be safeguarded by legal provisions which are mandatory and so can not be contracted out of or whether the law must respect the employee 's freedom to choose . |
| 9 | Little enough was left him now , but at least his dignity remained , though no one but himself could see it . |
| 10 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 11 | The impact of the Thatcher government 's new thinking has most obviously been felt in the privatization programme for the state-owned and state-provided services . |
| 12 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 13 | Hambros Jersey contended that the jurisdiction conferred by this rule can only properly be exercised by analogy to R.S.C. , Ord. 11 , so that leave should not be granted unless the case falls within one of the paragraphs of Ord. 11 , r. 1(1) . |
| 14 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 15 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 16 | The fire was still burning in the hearth ; all the draughts had long since been stopped ; but the room itself had gone chill around her . |
| 17 | Space was at such a premium here that the narrow side streets had long since been filled with structures . |
| 18 | On the few stumps that remained of Verdun 's noble forests on the Right Bank , the bark either hung down in strips , or else had long since been consumed by half-starved pack-horses . |
| 19 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 20 | Her red hair was a beacon in the night — a flame in which he had long since been charred . |
| 21 | The palm court , both vegetation and orchestra , has long since been repossessed . |
| 22 | Initially a technique for scientific research and surveys , the equipment was heavy due to the use of plate cameras , and the method of mounting , the type of kite and means of triggering the shutter have long since been surpassed . |
| 23 | But this idea has long since been rejected . |
| 24 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 25 | Bentley School was built 150 years ago on half an acre of land given by Bishop Sumner of Winchester but its history prior to 1882 is almost non-existent since the log books for the early years have long since been lost . |
| 26 | A bitter smile touched his lips at that , for had n't Grainne long since been lost ? |
| 27 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 28 | The problem is the familiar one when trying to establish the exact fate of millions of Stalin 's victims : detailed records of the security police , if they ever existed , have probably long since been destroyed . |
| 29 | It served , however only to churn up the sodden land , whose drainage system had long since been destroyed by years of artillery fire , into a vast morass of craters filled with water , through which the British were expected to advance . |
| 30 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |