Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that it was eventually reinstated was not the point , ’ said Davies . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ten ideas that even the Tories eventually realised were too daft to implement |
| 14 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oddly enough , the people in the Labour Party whom George Wigg most disliked were those with whom he had the closest associations . |
| 17 | As widely scattered were over a hundred thousand prisoners of war or internees , who had to be tracked down , liberated , and succoured . |
| 18 | He established that the body which was badly decomposed was that of a male aged between 16 and 25 . |
| 19 | How the heavy seeds of goat 's rue become so widely dispersed is a mystery ; nor is there a satisfactory explanation for the very large numbers of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 20 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 21 | Interest increased when he revealed that among the types of RNA successfully attacked was RNA from the HIV virus which causes Aids . |
| 22 | The LM series produces very high dilutions and although not greatly favoured is used on occasion . |
| 23 | ‘ being the person driving ( or propelling ) ’ 'Propelling' means that vehicles other than mechanically propelled are included , such as pedal cycles . |
| 24 | Indeed , so shaken was she that , without being fully aware of what she was doing , she had invited him in and had led the way into her sitting-room before she had got herself back together again . |
| 25 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 26 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 27 | Also highly placed are S O'Halloran ( Divis ) , J Maguire ( Grosvenor ) and W G Wilson ( South ) . |
| 28 | The collocations so formed are therefore representative of such financial material and hence will be more specific than those from the general dictionary . |
| 29 | The properties of the state so formed are related in a probabilistic way to the properties of the states out of which it is composed [ the photon has a chance unc a of transmission ( which is a certainty for polarisation along y ) and a chance cos ' a of not being transmitted ( which is a certainty for polarisation along x ) ] This is what is meant by the superposition principle : that states can be combined in this way with a probability interpretation of the result . |
| 30 | The model so formed is appropriate for the further stages in the methodology and the database will be shareable , a fundamental justification for the database approach . |