Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working successfully involves being able to cope with 100 per cent of the cases which arise . |
| 2 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 3 | Nissan 's success in the UK hitherto has been due almost entirely to a totally independent company founded back in 1968 by an East European named Octav Botnar . |
| 4 | Nobody can know the world , not even the parts of it on offer to tourists , but they can know how to look them up , and the training for too long has been exiguous . |
| 5 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 6 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 7 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 8 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 9 | It does not necessarily remember whether it was hurt or not : it only remembers being afraid . |
| 10 | Can I say Chairman on on this report of the policy of the old policy and resources committee on the internal management of local authorities that was a very important issue because it 's I all issues are important but in particular the the seal the report is to inform the council of comments which the policy and resources committee has agreed to make the association of county councils on the recommendation of the joint working party on the internal management of local authority Now I 'm sure you , you 've waded through the report at least some of the during the last er week or so that er that you 've had it well I would advise you to turn to page thirty and thirty one because there 's lot eas and it 'll make life easier for you , if you do that and there on the bottom half of page thirty you will see the decisions of the policy and resources committee . |
| 11 | ‘ He obviously enjoys being involved in something which could mark a new stage in his career . |
| 12 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 13 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 14 | ALTHOUGH the bond market generally has been yo-yoing with the fortunes of the Gulf war , one issue is selling like hot bagels . |
| 15 | The trend already has been remarkable : we used to have 140,000 village shops in the 1960s . |
| 16 | ‘ Losing Danny so suddenly and so pointlessly has been terrible . |
| 17 | However , with an eye to the other organisations , the sound of pedals being rotated backwards has been deafening . |
| 18 | Yet hypnosis can produce seriously distorted memories which the witness nevertheless believes are true |
| 19 | Diesel always has been lead-free and the only adjustments you need to make are mental ones , because diesel-powered cars are no longer slow , smelly or noisy . |
| 20 | It always has been desirable for governors in special schools to have some knowledge of the curriculum in mainstream schools and for this awareness to be reciprocated . |
| 21 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 22 | The junior health minister , Tim Yeo , retorted : ‘ Labour always has been soft on crime and always will be soft on crime . |
| 23 | In fact theatrical imagery is , and always has been derogatory , used to expose human pretence , or the futility of secular life compared to some other existence or system . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been through so much more trouble than Sean , but he 's famous and nothing he ever does is secret . |
| 25 | The way in which Saddam Hussein still behaves is unacceptable to us , to the United Nations and to the international community , and we shall continue to keep pressure on him . |
| 26 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 27 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 28 | Erm in East Anglia erm sorry that 's , that 's true for the north and the south west , in East Anglia er output also has been flat erm but that seems to be related to weakness in export demand in the region erm export was the weakest er in that region of any region throughout the U K although total optimism is strong so it seems to be the case erm though business is being done the export economy erm in East Anglia . |
| 29 | Being in control and being assertive also means being able to start things off-for example , being able to start a conversation with a stranger and expressing your opinions . |
| 30 | It also means being prepared to alter plan , or course , as circumstances develop . |