Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 the granting of planning permission for rural housing has arguably been concerned with the visual quality of the countryside rather than with alleviating problems of housing need . |
| 2 | And it 's for this reason , I think , that people quite properly are interested in Darwin 's theory of evolution , are worried about it and so on . |
| 3 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 4 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 5 | THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE DESIGNERS BELIEVE THAT ALL STATEMENTS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS AND CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS . |
| 6 | Please note : Extra week offers are only applicable to basic room only ; any supplements for single rooms , full board etc. are payable on the whole holiday ( extra week included ) and will be automatically added to your invoice . |
| 7 | Alternatively , if lifts and hoists etc. are capable of operation from ground level it may be possible to develop the means by which the progress and success of fire fighting might be judged by infra-red scanners mounted on them and providing readings or other indications to the control point . |
| 8 | For a small extra charge : tickets to swimming pools , thermal baths , etc. are available on request . |
| 9 | concepts of career , ‘ job satisfaction ’ , ‘ vocation ’ etc. are central to this . |
| 10 | determine which sub-systems , programs etc. are likely to be involved in any change |
| 11 | The executive and his family are being asked to live in an unfamiliar place where the climate , language , laws , religion , etc. are alien to their normal life style . |
| 12 | Generally the following excuses etc. are pertinent to this offence : |
| 13 | Oh right are these of , what did you have , is that what you had before one of these with the bits of carrot on |
| 14 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 15 | Lorraine did her doctorate work in the Department of Geography and has since been involved in the Department of Environmental Health and Housing on designing a hazard index for litter ( sponsored by the Tidy Britain Group ) . |
| 16 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 17 | From this perspective , therefore , employers do not have power over employees , they do not give them instructions , but rather are involved in a process of constant renegotiation of the employment contract . |
| 18 | Paul wondered if he had perhaps been remiss in his lectures with all that had happened ; but it was not that , as it turned out . |
| 19 | Literally thousands of people have benefited form Nancy 's instruction and she has perhaps been one of the greatest advocates of the Sunday Painter school , encouraging an increase in the popularity of painting as a pastime for people of all ages and from all walks of life . |
| 20 | In the past , the NHS has perhaps been guilty of seeing structures and organisational change as the outcome measures of new initiatives . |
| 21 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 22 | Due to the preoccupation of investigators with the issue of hemispheric asymmetry this most important problem has hitherto been immune from serious experimental attack . |
| 23 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 24 | I have hitherto been guilty of no very enormous or vile actions . |
| 25 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 26 | His father 's brother , Gloucester had hitherto been loyal to a fault . |
| 27 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 28 | The Cabinet , appointed by the President , has hitherto been subordinate to the UNIP central committee . |
| 29 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 30 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |