Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 2 | The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion . |
| 3 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 4 | At present , most of the possible Zechstein accumulations would not be economically attractive in offshore situations , where the minimum size of field that can be commercially developed is about 100 Bcf . |
| 5 | Those most coveted were the ones with pockets to hold all the valuables salvaged and brought away in fists . |
| 6 | C&P 's greatest asset for getting its message more widely heard is its people who , if properly informed , are the best possible ambassadors for the company . |
| 7 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 8 | President Zhelyu Zhelev had accordingly invited the remaining party represented in the National Assembly , the ( ethnic Turkish ) Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) , to seek to put together a government , and the programme and Cabinet as eventually formed were backed by the MRF and the majority of the BSP , as well as by some elements of the broad UDF grouping . |
| 9 | Working successfully involves being able to cope with 100 per cent of the cases which arise . |
| 10 | Many years after the war the story of how the Enigma code was eventually broken was told and , as is often the case with officially approved histories , it was implied that the success was entirely that of GCCS . |
| 11 | Ironically , the players who exert the most influence are not the worthy professionals nor the solid artisans , it is the daring wingers , the vicious defenders , the arrogant bastards and the uncontrollable wide-boys whose image is remembered by fans . |
| 12 | What is less widely recognized is that , whatever their claims to empirical evidence in support , these arguments reflect a particular intellectual tradition , that of liberal political philosophy . |
| 13 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that it was eventually reinstated was not the point , ’ said Davies . |
| 15 | Voters tell pollsters that the electoral outcome they most favour is a coalition of Socialists and the United Left . |
| 16 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 17 | Ten ideas that even the Tories eventually realised were too daft to implement |
| 18 | What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper . |
| 19 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 20 | This is the Old Man of Stoer and incredibly has been climbed to its top , the first time in 1966 . |
| 21 | Such samples of the population as we accidently encountered were not promising . |
| 22 | The highly organized learned career which obtained in the empire from the late sixteenth century onward has been described by a number of authors , western and Turkish , most recently by Gibb and Bowen in their Islamic Society and the West and by Uzuncarsili in his . |
| 23 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 24 | IN does not specifically recognize DNA ends but rather has been shown to bind DNA in a sequence independent manner ( 22 , 29 ) . |
| 25 | The most has been brought by the relationships that were supposed to be pure and noble . |
| 26 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 28 | In addition , using animal models , prostacyclin applied locally has been shown to inhibit thrombus formation in response to ADP in the hamster cheek pouch microcirculation ( Higgs et al , 1977 ) , and given systemically prostacyclin inhibited thrombus formation induced electrically in rabbit carotid artery ( Ubatuba et al , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain . |
| 30 | As widely scattered were over a hundred thousand prisoners of war or internees , who had to be tracked down , liberated , and succoured . |