Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [is] " 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 Voters tell pollsters that the electoral outcome they most favour is a coalition of Socialists and the United Left .
8 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 .
9 The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so .
10 After all , when you are ill , or when someone whom you love is ill , what you most want is someone to take the responsibility .
11 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 .
12 The long-standing philosophical controversy into which this topic most obviously fits is the political one about equality .
13 The LM series produces very high dilutions and although not greatly favoured is used on occasion .
14 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’
15 So obviously eating 's generally theirs .
16 So Frye is a one-time KGB mole who 's slept with drab Duckham 's ex-wife à la Bill Haydon and George Smiley .
17 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 .
18 As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment .
19 Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss .
20 The only change I would perhaps make is to increase the lighting level slightly .
21 Indeed , but the impression remains stronger than the denial and one is left wondering why they chose 1950 as the cut-off point , if not to put a comfortable distance between ‘ then ’ and ‘ now ’ : the dark ages of the past and present enlightenment , which they rightly insist is illusory .
22 From these principles he argues that the only form of the state which can be morally justified is a minimal state which is limited to the protection of citizens against force , theft , and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts .
23 That this second part , covering officers ' uniforms , has been long delayed is the responsibility of the magazine , not of the author .
24 But the notion of things which are naturally hidden is most important for Gassendi .
25 Although the trees are still leafless , I do not get a glimpse of the hall until it is within a stone 's throw , so hidden is it by a dense screen of boughs and underwood ; but I know it is near at hand , for an ancient archway spans the path leading to the farmyard , and just beyond the Tudor gateway bearing several clear-cut coats of arms .
26 So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds .
27 The you so pointedly admonished is the addressee of the poem , Torquatus , a representative Roman , fictionally standing in for the reader at large .
28 So Goering is going to fly to England .
29 Hughes argues that part of the reason why the former communist bloc is portrayed as highly polluted is the unrealistic safety standards set by the governments of the states themselves , which are far more stringent than those of the EC and USA .
30 Confident that the anointing they have all received is the person of the Spirit of the Anointed One , who remains with them ( 2:27 ) , John knows he can safely leave their instruction to that same Spirit who is true and who shows them how to abide in Christ , the Christ who will one day return ( 2:28f ) .
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