Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only areas of physical science into which quantum mechanics has not yet been properly incorporated are gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe . |
| 2 | Claims that the English tests had not been properly prepared were dismissed as being ‘ without any validity at all , ’ and he stressed the importance of the tests in identifying pupils with reading difficulties at an early age so they could be given extra help . |
| 3 | One area in which it has been widely used is agriculture . |
| 4 | For information relating to short times , two approaches that have been widely used are dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ( DMTA ) and dielectric thermal analysis ( DETA ) . |
| 5 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 6 | ‘ To say that I have been badly treated is a gross understatement . |
| 7 | If the 20 per cent of records that are most accessed are loaded first , the situation is quite different . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What has been less recognized is that legal structures constitute the family and roles within it . |
| 10 | That this second part , covering officers ' uniforms , has been long delayed is the responsibility of the magazine , not of the author . |
| 11 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 12 | And it goes back to what we were saying about why some of these founders types which are somewhat slapdash are more readable and more interesting and get your attention . |
| 13 | But the notion of things which are naturally hidden is most important for Gassendi . |
| 14 | What has not yet been conclusively demonstrated is that birds learn to avoid brightly coloured sickening prey more quickly than equivalent but duller coloured prey . |
| 15 | You certainly wo n't miraculously ensure perfect spelling by helping pupils to use dictionaries , but you will find that it 's time well spent , because the main use to which dictionaries are normally put is to check spellings . |
| 16 | I will be dealing with seven ( although another claim I am not making is that of exhaustiveness ) : affection , status , stimulation , autonomy , security , money and belief . |
| 17 | An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago . |
| 18 | I mean some of those some of those are already done are n't they . |
| 19 | The numbers of the bilingual service providers which are already mentioned are growing slowly . |
| 20 | It appears that the dads who are already paying are the one 's who are paying and nobody seems to chasing after the others . |
| 21 | But campaigners say fathers who are already paying are being treated unfairly . |
| 22 | The main reason they are not overcome is lack of time to discover the mistake and put it right . |
| 23 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 24 | Responses that are not rewarded are less likely to be performed again . |
| 25 | It is widely recognized among those involved with education that one of the most significant aspects of certification procedures is that aspects of educational endeavour which are not assessed are unlikely to be taken seriously by either teachers or pupils . |
| 26 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 27 | The main disadvantage of the network approach is that areas which are not covered are thereby excluded completely . |
| 28 | Tax is imposed as a rate or series of rates ; e.g. income tax is levied at just 20% , 25% and 40% of taxable income whilst VAT items that are not exempted are zero-rated or pay 17.5% . |
| 29 | ‘ But the question they are not answering is what are we going to do about the NHS . |
| 30 | Those that are not reviewed are returned as rapidly as possible so that they may be submitted elsewhere without delay . |