Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the same reason the population estimates given in the species accounts are meant only to indicate the order of size . |
| 2 | Damages in libel cases are intended generally to compensate the plaintiff for loss of face , and specifically for any loss of work or earnings which can be proved to have been suffered as a result of the libel . |
| 3 | The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example . |
| 4 | Meals are taken irregularly , sleep-cycles are disturbed and leisure activities are pushed aside to allow time for more interaction with the machine . |
| 5 | What Lord Airlie , the Lord Chamberlain , actually said on 11 February when announcing the areas on which the Queen was now going to pay tax , was that the income-raising activities relating to the collection — sales of tickets , catalogues , souvenirs etc — are to be put into a trust to reflect the fact that these activities are used exclusively to maintain the Collection . |
| 6 | All family health services authorities are funded equally to purchase professional advice on prescribing , but evaluation of the success of medical advisers has been impeded by a variety of changes that have affected prescribing . |
| 7 | But , with the exception of image processing systems ( see p 62 ) , computers and the documents they generate have only added to the printed matter which covers most desks : even today 95% of business information is paper-based , and every year millions of working hours are wasted just searching for information . |
| 8 | 95% of business information is paper-based , and every year millions of working hours are wasted just searching through it |
| 9 | Even after visits made in the extra two hours are excluded there has still been an increase of nearly 39% in night visits from 1989 to 1992 , and the number of night visits has more than doubled in the 10 years since 1982 . |
| 10 | The body segments of an insect are grouped together to form three usually well-defined regions or tagmata — the head , thorax and abdomen ( Fig . |
| 11 | It is clear that such forms are designed primarily to protect the hospital from legal action . |
| 12 | The motor of Fig.1.5 has six stator teeth and the windings on opposite teeth are connected together to form one phase . |
| 13 | Unlike normal handsaws , where teeth are set alternatively left and then right , only every third tooth of the XT saws is alternatively set . |
| 14 | Spending on advice and assistance — a scheme unique to Scotland , where solicitors are consulted initially to consider bringing cases — had reached £19.2 million compared with £15.4 million . |
| 15 | Rotational needs — the venue may change when meetings are held regularly to allow delegates equal ease of access |
| 16 | We need to be satisfied that the cost and delays that would be involved in such a course are justified both to resolve this matter and to provide the assurance that all the issues have been fully examined . |
| 17 | Iced sardines are trodden underfoot to soften them up . |
| 18 | A certain amount of cross-border examination to ensure that European Community rules are met already exists and , as my hon. Friend knows from what I said earlier , in future we shall have much tighter enforcement rules to ensure that those countries — all of them — that sign up to European directives will have to obey those directives or face fines for not doing so . |
| 19 | Risks are perceived differently according to their scale and nature , and not by simply multiplying the frequency and consequences . |
| 20 | Animals are killed only to avert mystical dangers which cause illness and death . |
| 21 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 22 | Friendly journalists are kept regularly briefed about what we 're planning and key areas of work . |
| 23 | The units are put together to form meaningful chains of symbolism but the same units may turn up in quite different ritual contexts . |
| 24 | Does the Prime Minister accept that one of the great achievements of the Olympic movement is to bring nations together in sporting endeavour and excellence and that similarly , despite the forthcoming general election , all political parties are brought together to support this country 's bid to host the Olympic games in the year 2000 ? |
| 25 | They 're just sitting around in their warm staff-rooms , chewing the fat , while the kids are sent home to get into mischief . |
| 26 | Since the convention 's Funds are used mainly to help protect World Heritage sites in developing countries , responsibility was assigned to the Overseas Development Agency , part of the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Large numbers of tiny oval corallites are linked together to form chains . |
| 28 | Hierarchy and clergy are seen almost to monopolize the teaching and wisdom about life . |
| 29 | Emmenthal and Gruyère are mixed together to make a Swiss cheese fondue . |
| 30 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |