Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Such formalities as this are easily taught and can even be fun to teach and learn .
5 Bars 11 and 12 are easily played if you finger a 4-string E chord at the 12th fret .
6 Of the various neutrophil functions — namely adherence , aggregation , orientation , locomotion , and chemotaxis — few are better defined and understood than the sequence of events when the neurtophil comes into contact with a chemoattractant .
7 Among 105 species of maritime and continental antarctic mosses ( Smith 1984 ) only a few are currently regarded as endemic , and the number declines as ‘ antarctic ’ species are discovered in South America and elsewhere .
8 Of the large number of individual faults ( Figure 3.27 just shows some of the major ones ) only a few are currently regarded as being active , although others have been active in the recent past .
9 Nevertheless , her descriptions of specialist homes show that few are specially designed and few have the enhanced staffing levels that would be necessary for specialist care .
10 Some are even working while they 're on the outside waiting for their trials . ’
11 Some are well prepared and have taken the trouble to find out how to conduct a selection interview , especially if they are highly trained personnel officers .
12 Some are well known but new technology brings new problems .
13 These are mostly run by local authorities , but some are privately owned and/or denominational .
14 Some are highly specialised and limit themselves to one particular type of prey , refusing all other kinds of meat even though it may be highly nutritious .
15 Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders .
16 In fact , some are more liked than others ; some are more repetitive , some less tiring , some more potentially creative and so forth .
17 More ominously , some are now asking whether the days are numbered for the last of the Edwardian motor cars — Rolls-Royce was founded in Manchester in 1904 — and whether cars of this size , weight and cost can really be justified in an era of increased social awareness and growing environmental concerns .
18 Some are undoubtedly produced when ropy strands or shreds of sticky lava are flung up out of the vent , twisting and turning slightly in the air before falling back to earth ; these are known as rope or ribbon bombs , and they may be as much as one metre long .
19 The quality of these troops varies considerably , and although they are all brave some are better equipped than others .
20 Some of these have been appropriately criticized , but I consider that the characters listed in Box 2 are well established as hominoid synapomorphies shared by Proconsul .
21 The vast majority of course needed only minor repair , but 25 , 113 were seriously damaged or rendered uninhabitable and 2,487 were totally destroyed ( Bullock , 1987 , p. 73 ) .
22 Bearing in mind that 500,000 Nepalese soldiers served with the British forces in the two world wars , that no fewer than 50,000 were either killed or seriously wounded , that 13 won Victoria Crosses , that 13 British officers serving with the Gurkhas also won Victoria Crosses , and that under ’ Options for Change ’ we are proposing to reduce the number of Gurkhas from 8,000 to 2,500 , can my hon. Friend assure the House that the Foreign Office will take into account the reduction in what amounts to aid , currently provided through pay and pensions , in its future plans for aid to Nepal ?
23 Some were unrecognisably altered or mutilated , but most were obvious caricatures of people Anne had seen at the party .
24 Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen .
25 Some were superbly typed or run off the ubiquitous Amstrad printer .
26 Sohail and Ramiz made 16 untroubled , and that evening Akram expressed fresh concern that some were still complaining that he and Waqar must be ‘ doctoring ’ the ball .
27 This First Book of Dowland 's raises the problem of which was the original form ; some were undoubtedly composed as part-songs , others ( for instance , ‘ Sleep , wayward thoughts ’ and ‘ Awake , sweet love ’ ) probably originated as solos to the lute , while others again ( ‘ If my complaints ' , ‘ Can she excuse ’ , ‘ Now , oh now I needs must part ’ ) seem to have been instrumental dances to which words were later added .
28 The British were firmly anti-Soviet and pro-American , they enjoyed internal political stability , and were willing to bear a wide range of international responsibilities .
29 The Zande found this very perplexing and assumed , perfectly logically , that by suppressing sanctions against witches , the British were inevitably condoning and even promoting witchcraft activities !
30 The saline is eventually filtered and then heated in shallow pans to complete the evaporation process before the salt is left to crystallise .
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