Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If comparisons of prevalence are to be made with other populations or other times , there must obviously be reasonable similarity in the research methods used .
2 He also urged speed and independence and said there should only be administrative contact between inspectors and DTI officials during an investigation .
3 After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds .
4 Delegate Geoff Wright , from Leeds city Council , recently awarded an MBE for environmental services , said ‘ It 's clear that recycling domestic waste is fast becoming a growth industry in its own right , which can only be good news for waste avoidance in our towns and countryside and for the economy . ’
5 Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels .
6 This theft can only be bad news for the preservation movement .
7 We hope that there will soon be great progress in Zambia .
8 ICE lollies of sex symbols such as Madonna may soon be possible thanks to new technology , say Strathclyde university researchers .
9 They can thus be suitable adversaries for a dramatic confrontation .
10 Differences in spatial visualisation ability and mathematics attainment may thus be different outcomes of the same basic cause or may themselves be cause and effect .
11 The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness .
12 When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment .
13 Neither could these illustrations just be rough approximations of the finished articles .
14 The London discount scheme would just be regional banding in another guise .
15 At some very high energy , called the grand unification energy , these three forces would all have the same strength and so could just be different aspects of a single force .
16 This need not suggest a Machiavellian strategy ; it may just be sensible caution in the face of uncertainty about both the external and the internal corporate assessment .
17 The result will just be massive congestion in the middle of the field .
18 In the first 2 months there would normally be little benefit in invoking any of the actions shown above .
19 Candidates studying for an HCIMA Professional Qualification must normally be registered members of the Association .
20 In some specimens the apical papilla may not be distinct while in others there are 1 or 2 large , pointed papillae ; these are flanked by up to 6 flat , pointed or sometimes scale-like oral papillae .
21 If that is so , presumably costs to industry will be that much lower here than in the rest of Europe , so there will not be equal competition with enterprises in the other 11 nations of the European Community .
22 A partner must not be prohibited access to information at his reasonable request .
23 Love which was forced on God would not be divine love at all .
24 These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’
25 But were creatures nothing more than their physical overcoats , why should they not be docile vegetarians in one stage and voracious prey-catchers in another ?
26 This will not be good news for those banks left with the bad debts .
27 That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives .
28 However , such performances can not be necessary conditions for such ascription , because of all those we would naturally deem conscious but who can not , for various reasons , provide them .
29 ‘ Fs , Gs , and the Big U. OK , that may not be great earthquakes for you , but people like my folks press you .
30 It may temporarily enhance production but may not be real progress in the second language .
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