Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 2 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 3 | But to have a multiple personality , in which one self may suddenly be overthrown by another and one mind may be torn in several different directions is sometimes so intolerable , I long for extinction . |
| 4 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 5 | Males , also , can especially be affected by coercive inducements , usually in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | They can rightly be described as such because in each case the plaintiff 's freedom and ability to earn a living was affected . |
| 7 | Although we may claim that we simply publish an objective report , the inference that exceptional evil existed during the occupation of Kuwait will naturally be made by those trying to justify the devastating Allied bombardment of Iraq , now retrospectively . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if several similar tables are to be compared , the same format must naturally be used for all of them . |
| 9 | Any cliff or headland which faces the direction from which the greatest waves come will obviously be exposed to severe wave attack . |
| 10 | And this can obviously be done by any intelligent teacher who is not an artist . |
| 11 | The logic of exploiting the perception gap between the real cost of benefits and their perceived value to the employee can obviously be applied to other benefits . |
| 12 | Prominence must obviously be understood in relative terms : if features can register on a reader 's mind in his recognition of style , the degree to which they are salient will vary , and the degree to which the reader responds in a given reading will also vary according to a number of factors , such as his attentiveness , sensitivity to style and previous reading experience . |
| 13 | Threads can run on uni-processor systems as well as multi-processors , but can obviously be employed to greater advantage on the latter . |
| 14 | A lengthy delay in the reporting of a birth increases the chance that the newborn child may die with no registration of either the birth or death ; the national birth and death rates will obviously be underestimated in such circumstances . |
| 15 | And I 'll obviously be corrected on that if I 'm er I 'm getting an an affirmative nod from Mr Potter . |
| 16 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 17 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 18 | The House of Lords has stated that Liversidge need no longer haunt the law , and it can be confidently predicted that the more natural objective meaning will henceforth be ascribed to such words . |
| 19 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 20 | He said that guerrilla attacks would henceforth be directed at military targets , state companies and economic installations among others . |
| 21 | So be prepared for that , be prepared that the person you 're going to talk to is not gon na give you that usual to and fro feedback and do n't be thrown by that . |
| 22 | The appendix on useful verbs should come in handy for those not up on adventure jargon , but be careful with the address section — a lot of them are now out of date so be prepared for some lack of response in some cases . |
| 23 | Private agencies generally specialize in clerical and secretarial work and may want to test your speeds , so be prepared for this . |
| 24 | In which case the er calculated very kindly brought in a system mikes so , so be warned of that please . |
| 25 | Quantitative measures may allow a discovery of pattern in the situations which might otherwise merely be seen as random variation . |
| 26 | Presenting women 's viewpoint in development through interpersonal and mass media will explode several myths of patriarchal society , especially those assuming that ‘ male-defined reality ’ is the only reality , that political and economic systems created by men are superior and that women must merely be integrated into these systems . |
| 27 | What is of far greater importance is that the candidate should come across well on TV news programmes and should constantly be seen in favourable settings making crisp and newsworthy remarks . |
| 28 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 29 | Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales . |
| 30 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |