Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 2 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 3 | According to the World Bank in its report on Energy Transition in the Developing Countries ( 1984 ) , energy supply has the potential almost to double in the years to 1995 provided that available resources both financial and technical are strategically deployed and realistic pricing policies are established and maintained . |
| 4 | The systems , , graphical user interfaces , the concept of database management systems , repositories of information which are accessible and shareable are really taken for granted in many organizations . |
| 5 | Or , thirdly , arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities . |
| 6 | Downstairs the ten-year-old and the eight-year-old are quietly occupied in running three of the old dungeons together to make a games room . |
| 7 | Elsewhere along the coast flocks of up to 500 are regularly found . |
| 8 | If a link exists between body temperature and the sensation of fatigue , then it is reasonable to enquire if the abilities to fall asleep and remain asleep are also related to body temperature . |
| 9 | The troubles of the nuclear industry in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 are well known : a slowdown or halt to construction of new plants , plus the closedown earlier this year of the nuclear power station near Erevan in Armenia because of safety worries after last December 's earthquake . |
| 10 | The disqualification provisions of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 are usually considered only in the context of offences in relation to company legislation , such as failing to file documents , and fiscal misconduct . |
| 11 | Any bankruptcy proceedings commenced before 29 December 1986 are still governed by the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as amended and the Bankruptcy Rules 1952 as amended . |
| 12 | In some cultures , older people are deprived of esteem , suffer severe neglect and , in extreme cases , the frail and weak are simply left to die . |
| 13 | As recently as the mid-1980s , Neil Postman ( 1985 , p.79 ) was writing that ‘ The six-year-old and the sixty-year-old are equally qualified to experience what television has to offer … . |
| 14 | Many words originally hyphenated are now written without hyphens . |
| 15 | It 's best to bring an early morning , mid-flow sample with you , because the hormones that show that you are pregnant are most concentrated in your early-morning urine . |
| 16 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 17 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 18 | The Legislative Assembly of Macao , enlarged under the new 1990 organic Law [ see below ] , has 23 members , of whom seven are government appointees , eight are indirectly elected by business associations and eight are elected by direct universal suffrage . |
| 19 | The Legislative Assembly of Macao comprises 23 members , of whom seven are government appointees , eight are indirectly elected by business associations and eight are elected by direct universal suffrage . |
| 20 | The net effects of all this are well described by the Northern Trade Union Labour Left ( 1984 ) culminating in efforts to establish a ‘ Regional Executive ’ on explicitly corporatist lines . |
| 21 | The full implications of this are best indicated if we observe that far more is involved in it than merely the uniqueness of the revelation in Jesus , solely the issue whether there is genuine access to knowledge of God in any other place . |
| 22 | If so , then the reasons for this are probably related to the fact that they have been the party of government and their ideas are consequently more newsworthy ; that they have displayed greater skill and exerted greater effort in publicising their views ; and that the other parties delayed the formulation of their interpretations of the concept . |
| 23 | Such formalities as this are easily taught and can even be fun to teach and learn . |
| 24 | The reasons for this are easily seen . |
| 25 | The old wounds about this are easily opened . |
| 26 | Examples of this are nowadays quoted in most of the newspapers — the 25–30 year-old trader who is earning £200 000–£400 000 whilst the person who runs the whole department may be on a salary of only half this . |
| 27 | The notable exceptions to this are mostly found in work done by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones . |
| 28 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |
| 29 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 30 | People who do this are actually given a training , this does n't hurt the baby , they do n't mind , their bones are very soft you 'll look at your baby , all of you can look at babies that you 're caring for and you hold them and you see well is that leg longer than the other ? |