Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The young people , in particular , as they become better educated are reluctant to work the land — which is very hard work for a low income . |
| 5 | For example , the right not to unjustifiably disciplined is enforceable in an Industrial Tribunal . |
| 6 | It is a delight to have Bishop Harris with us once more — he has only missed being present twice in 14 years . |
| 7 | Donald Harris wants the law changed so compensated is automatic . |
| 8 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 9 | The idea points to a kind of dynamic joy of understanding between creator and creation ; that it is not constantly felt is due to sin . |
| 10 | Any interest so missed is non-cumulative . |
| 11 | The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 12 | The term " dumb " really implies that the person so called is incapable of making himself understood by his fellow creatures . |
| 13 | Temporary workers hired for a fixed-term in excess of one year were not identified by WIRS , although other than in the academic/research area numbers so employed are likely to be small . |
| 14 | This insurance does not cover any consequences of war , invasion , act of foreign enemy , hostilities ( whether war be declared or not ) , civil war , rebellion , revolution , insurrection or military or usurped power ( other than under Sections 2 , 3 & 6 ) while the Insured Person is away from the British Isles provided always that the cover so provided is subject to cancellation by the Insurer by giving seven days notice by registered letter to HCI Club Holidays . |
| 15 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 16 | The main thrust of Thatcherite social and economic philosophy was far from clear when she took office in May 1979 , so entrenched were key figures of the Heathite past in the party ; but the general thrust would clearly lie in pursuing the monetarist approach of the Chicago economist , Milton Friedman , in which control of the money supply through M3 indicators , and identifying inflation rather than unemployment as the central enemy , were the fundamental themes . |
| 17 | Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt , partly as a result of easy credit , added Mr Milburn . |
| 18 | Ask a neighbour to collect your post , water your plants ( dead plants or plants that are regularly on windowsills suddenly removed are tell-tale signs ) and perhaps to draw your curtains every night . |
| 19 | Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior . |
| 20 | The emphasis on medium , form and aesthetic grammar would suggest that , whatever their ‘ content ’ or ‘ effect ’ , they are somehow different ; at the simplest level , saying that a history or sociology book is badly written is different from saying that a novel is badly written . |
| 21 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 22 | And not forgotten are great series from the past — the Can-Am challenges and the Australian Tasman Cup . |
| 23 | A canvasser thus entrapped is lucky to escape inside four hours ; lucky , indeed , to escape before the polling day after next . |
| 24 | Also not included are fixed charges on bank accounts and , more importantly , fixed charges on shares held in a subsidiary . |
| 25 | This dismemberment of the kingdom he had just won is indicative of the underlying weakness of Balliol 's position . |
| 26 | Already , seed merchants are complaining that much of the seed already harvested is small , sprouting or diseased , which could lead to shortages next year and some farmers could face greater problems . |
| 27 | The basal acid output in the one duodenal ulcer subject in whom H pylori infection was not eradicated was similar before ( 3.7 ) and after ( 4.8 ) the triple treatment . |
| 28 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 29 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 30 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |