Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 2 | The object of the Institution is , to reform , and bring into a regular system , that important branch of medicine which regards the treatment of diseases incidental to horses and other cattle , and which has hitherto been neglected and much abused in this country … |
| 3 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Through current vital statistics or special studies conducted in statistically more developed countries it has long been observed and well demonstrated that childbearing patterns , such as maternal age , parity and the interval between consecutive births have a characteristic effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 5 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 6 | On the question of giving an employee reasons for his dismissal , reasons need only be given if specifically requested by the employee ( Section 58 of the 1978 Act ) . |
| 7 | This earthly world was depleted of all powers at the end of creation time history ; after that time the community could only be achieved and continuously recreated through individuals carefully taking , with the help of the ruwatu , limited amounts of transformational forces to do so from the gods . |
| 8 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 9 | Another important development will be compact disks that can not only be read but also written to , so the user can make his own amendments to the data . |
| 10 | Warnings from western diplomats that he would ‘ not only be imprisoned but perhaps killed ’ failed to deter him , despite the trouble encountered on his way out of Malawi . |
| 11 | Products thus described should only be used if specifically formulated for food industry use . |
| 12 | His title-pages specify that his songs may not only be sung but also played ‘ on all sorts of instruments ’ ( auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen ) ; indeed the non-tenor parts are often obviously instrumental , as in Senfl 's ‘ Wol kumpt der May ’ in Ott 's 121 . |
| 13 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 14 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 15 | Now the point has already been raised and partly answered in the question in the case of Selby District Council as to whether it matters whether there is an over-provision of land for industry and other employment . |
| 16 | The process of editing will take account of the other papers left by Miss Lister , including the vast number of letters which she left and which have already been calendered and partly transcribed . |
| 17 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |
| 18 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 19 | The Conservatives also employed the classic advantage of the minority and manoeuvred well , sensibly concentrating on the seats that could best be held or putatively captured . |
| 20 | A simple home for a single family was often made on a small rock outcrop which was sheer on three sides and from which an approaching enemy could easily be seen and easily ejected , and such can be found at Dun Finn in Kildalton and at Rockside where a sherd of cordon decorated Iron Age pottery was found . |
| 21 | A simple home for a single family was often made on a small rock outcrop which was sheer on three sides and from which an approaching enemy could easily be seen and easily ejected , and such can be found at Dun Finn in Kildalton and at Rockside where a sherd of cordon decorated Iron Age pottery was found . |
| 22 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 23 | Visit the Rijksmuseum , the Van Gogh Museum or Anne Frank 's House , where the atmosphere can still be felt as vividly described in her World War II diaries . |
| 24 | An essential part of infection control is the isolation , safe transport and disposal of sharps and clinical wastes — these should always be treated as potentially contaminated . |
| 25 | Combinations of more than one B I -B II transition have also been attempted and always led to even greater energy losses . |
| 26 | The overall risk profile of the debtors ' ledger can also be assessed and continuously monitored . |
| 27 | But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across . |
| 28 | But in ( 76 ) with the predicate qualifier the lady and her red hair are intensionally separated ; therefore while it is still possible to use ( 76 ) to the same effect as ( 75 ) , with everything that is constructed with the verb covered by without solid evidence , this notion may also be taken as only related to one of the two extending elements ; that is , Oliver may reliably know her and what she is like — it is her image as red-haired that was constructed without solid evidence . |
| 29 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 30 | and converting , often being persecuted and physically assaulted for his beliefs . |