Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 2 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 3 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 4 | There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue . |
| 5 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 6 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 7 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 8 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 9 | They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level . |
| 10 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 11 | The two together are in correct amount . |
| 12 | Almost everyone agrees , for instance , that enterprise zones alone are of limited value , that tax incentives are relatively ineffective and deregulation is no solution . |
| 13 | In particular , since the socialisation undergone by a human being in the early years of its life will obviously be of crucial influence in affecting the attitudes and behaviour of the social adult , then the family , as the first human group an individual in any society usually belongs to , is clearly a socialising agency of major importance . |
| 14 | Launching a business with redundancy pay carried considerable financial risks , while training would only be of lasting value if there was a real job at the end of it . |
| 15 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 16 | If the originator is unable to put in the time and effort required , the OI can only be of limited help ( Rosenfeld and Servo , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The face of nature under one broad and universal glare ( a cloudless midsummer day ) is not propitious to the feelings of an anxious spectator ; but this monotony can only be of short duration , because the declining sun … produces shadows ; these gradually expanding , uniting and finally on the setting of the sun … exhibit an almost infinite variety of form , of tone and of colour . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The overall view is that much improvement can be made in these guides , which at present would only be of marginal use to a student . |
| 19 | Ultimately , however , it can only be through increased education that consumers can come to understand the choices available to them in a complex and ever changing market place and be able to exercise careful and considered consumption . |
| 20 | So being on supplementary benefit was one of the obvious things that people in the dayroom , chose to look at , cos it affected most of them . |
| 21 | Although 15 per cent of the younger elderly women living alone were in paid work , this did not lift the income of the age-group to an appreciable extent , because of the poor wages they received . |
| 22 | They alone were in unorthodox dress . |
| 23 | This is the first time this major title has gone to a coloured paddler and so is of great significance to those who think that canoeing is a whites-only sport . |
| 24 | The air was as clear as the air only is after prolonged rain . |
| 25 | But the enthusiasm of the 10,000 East Germans who cheered Dr Kohl and pinned their hopes on him to bring the two Germanys together was in stark contrast to official statements on the future from East Germany 's reform-minded leaders . |
| 26 | Inside was in total contrast to the pockmarked exterior . |
| 27 | But the approach is not adequate by itself : on the one hand , not all of the functions which government consciously decides to perform are public ; and on the other hand , there may well be functions performed by non-governmental bodies which have not attracted government attention , encouragement or participation but which nevertheless are of public importance . |
| 28 | Two of the three ‘ motives ’ outlined above are of special importance to the study of implementation , since the removal of some aspects of policy making from direct political influence and deference to special interests both introduce complications that make it particularly difficult to distinguish policy making from implementation . |
| 29 | The payments specified in Paragraph 3 above are for non-broadcast use of the Video . |
| 30 | The payments specified in Paragraph 3 above are for non-broadcast use of the Video . |