Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , Mrs Thatcher 's team gave the impression of being overconfident and inadequately informed . |
| 2 | However , what the questions and responses do illustrate is that the notion of a discipline or subject , which is the basic building-block of the undergraduate curriculum , far from being straightforward and clearly defined , is in fact extremely complex . |
| 3 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 4 | Sometimes the consultant feels that there is so much ambiguity regarding the appointment that it is unlikely to be successful as presently structured . |
| 5 | The arms appear to be wide and slightly flattened . |
| 6 | The Church test therefore appears to be broad and readily fulfilled , but the phrase ‘ some harm … albeit not serious harm ’ has been construed restrictively in one sense . |
| 7 | Interestingly these regions of the mouse genome are thought to be paralogous or ancestrally related ( 71 ) . |
| 8 | Firstly , standards of performance need to be verifiable and clearly stated , for example in units of production or sales volumes . |
| 9 | As any of the information in the Figure 1 may have a bearing on a section in question , it can readily be seen that advanced hyper-text features are needed if all the relevant subject matter is to be available and easily reached in the electronic medium . |
| 10 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
| 12 | It is fundamentally robust and so will not require frequent adjustment , a significant feature if Scottish qualifications are to be credible and readily understood in the rest of the UK and beyond . |
| 13 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 14 | They also found 5 out of 12 non-familial sinistrals to be dysphasic after right sided lesions in comparison with the absence of aphasia in 6 familial sinistrals . |
| 15 | ‘ I have had to be flexible and open minded on selection for all of the six-and-a-half years I have had this job , ’ said Roxburgh . |
| 16 | The one on the left is a ‘ compact ’ model which is light enough to be hand-held and easily carried round . |
| 17 | 10.7.2.3 to use background and results in carrying out the Project , such use to be free unless otherwise agreed . |
| 18 | It is important that it has a prayerful atmosphere and to achieve this it has to be clean and well kept . |
| 19 | Not only have food costs been above average , but the labour turnover has been relatively high , which is a little odd since Fred is generally considered to be genial and well liked ( though we must add that we have found no evidence that this is true as far as his staff are concerned ) . |
| 20 | Synchronised movement is critical , so the command has to be brief and so timed by a delayed ‘ one-and- pull sort of order . |
| 21 | In institutional practice , ‘ English ’ in public schools tended to be marginal and somewhat disregarded , but became central in the culture of the grammar schools , in ways adumbrated and advocated in the Newbolt Report . |