Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | A trump had been deftly played . |
2 | The lack of a comprehensive and up-to-date register of Old Stopfordians had always been keenly felt , and the work of compiling it was entrusted to a small body of Sixth Formers , marshalled by two prefects , E.J. Thomas and T. Volk . |
3 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
4 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
5 | Of course , this has been keenly misread in our century . |
6 | These materials are predominantly based on siloxy methacrylates , which contain branched dimethyl siloxane substituents on a methacrylate stem . |
7 | jobs which represent an extension of the wife-mother role , such as nursing and teaching , and those which require an attractive image , such as secretaries , are predominantly filled by women . |
8 | Bile acids in the rat are predominantly conjugated with taurine . |
9 | Six of these are intended for documents which are predominantly composed of one type of text ; the other two are provided for use with texts which combine these basic tagsets . |
10 | Otherwise Avocets are predominantly spring passage migrants in Sussex ; the paucity of autumn records seems remarkable and has always been a feature of the species ' occurrence in the county . |
11 | The major large lipid molecules of plasma — triglycerides , cholesterol , cholesterol esters and phospholipids — are predominantly transported by stable complex water-soluble macromolecules , designated lipoproteins . |
12 | In all of the cells for which lipid compositional asymmetries have been described the negatively charged phospholipids are predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane , while the zwitterionic phospholipids , containing the phosphorylcholine headgroup , are found in the outer leaflet . |
13 | The changes in O 3 concentrations are predominantly confined to the latitude band of injections in July . |
14 | Lest the reader may point out that the examples so far are predominantly drawn from small countries and affecting only small populations , others , such as areas of China and India are discussed elsewhere in this book . |
15 | These areas are predominantly used to rear hardy beef cattle and sheep which are sold in the autumn to be finished elsewhere . |
16 | Price promotions are predominantly used by fast-moving consumer goods producers , especially in the grocery trade . |
17 | BRS users are predominantly found in the legal , government , security and publishing sectors . |
18 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
19 | By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it . |
20 | Barthes 's ‘ Introduction to the structural analysis of narrative ’ deals with more than one level of narrative , but presumes that they are hierarchically arranged and that , therefore , to a certain extent , they can be discussed separately . |
21 | Erm , I 'll try and summarise them A perce an understanding of perception , whereby we say that i features are hierarchically extracted , is unable to deal with ambiguous input . |
22 | All actual human societies , as we can now observe them , whether they be large or small , complex or simple , are hierarchically ordered . |
23 | The main syntactic universal upon whose existence both Chomsky and Sampson are agreed is that all sentences of natural language are hierarchically structured . |
24 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
25 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
26 | In Egypt , attacks by Islamic extremists are widely condemned by all parties , and the people stand firm behind the government . |
27 | These rules are still of value and are widely followed throughout Europe and Asia . |
28 | The large-flowered trumpet daffodils are widely grown everywhere , but some of those with short , contrasting cups are just as attractive as the trumpet varieties , and there are charming miniatures too |
29 | As well as cereals , root crops — particularly potatoes and sugar beet — are widely grown on the best arable land , whilst in areas nearer the big cities , vegetables are most profitable , particularly on well-drained sandy loams . |
30 | Rhizobium seeding , either by direct inoculation into soil or by inoculating legume seeds , has been successful in North America where soya beans are widely grown in soils where there are no naturally occurring rhizobial bacteria . |