Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need to take good note of this , for it is an aspect of Leonard 's life , little stressed to be sure , at times perhaps deliberately down-played , that is of immense significance to him . |
| 2 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |
| 3 | But last year , when the team announced a sponsorship deal with TSB , he was widely reported to be 42 . |
| 4 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |
| 5 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 6 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 7 | The result was widely considered to be indicative of the government 's increasing unpopularity . |
| 8 | Les Menuires was our next stop — widely considered to be one of France 's ugliest resorts . |
| 9 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 10 | In addition to his ministerial role , Richardson was a key spokesman for the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) in the Senate , and was widely considered to be one of the party 's most influential figures . |
| 11 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |
| 12 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |
| 13 | An end to the worst bloodshed in recent years and the prospect of national peace and increased democracy was widely considered to be dependent on the successful outcome of three events taking place simultaneously . |
| 14 | It remained unclear to many analysts , however , whether the " no " vote was a rejection of demilitarization , or the expression of general uncertainty about the preservation of national sovereignty , given that Endara owed his installation in office to the December 1989 US military invasion of the country [ see pp. 37112-13 ] and that his government was widely considered to be subservient to US interests in the region . |
| 15 | At North Leigh the relieving insets of guilloche etc. appear to be simpler than those at Chedworth . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’ |
| 17 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 18 | Tithonus can see the normal human beings who can die and so longs to be one of them . |
| 19 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 20 | The man I have been foolish enough to fall for is incapable of trusting me . ’ |
| 21 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 22 | . The patched lines on the plan which you have in front of you erm are only intended to be indicative . |
| 23 | Since neither its eyes nor its ears are sufficiently developed to be functional at this stage , it probably finds its way to the pouch by smell . |
| 24 | This is perhaps intended to be ironic . |
| 25 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 26 | But I could only attain to be thrilled and enchanted , as by the sound of a strain of music dying away . |
| 27 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 28 | Donors will obviously need to be sure that environmental aid is administered efficiently and spent according to agreed priorities . |
| 29 | The police have n't been able to trace her and we shall have to arrange an inquest — and of course the funeral , which she will naturally need to be concerned with . ’ |
| 30 | Their requirements may be similar to those of others , but at present the vast majority of goods and services on offer are only designed to be user-friendly for fit , athletic members of MENSA ! |