Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominence must obviously be understood in relative terms : if features can register on a reader 's mind in his recognition of style , the degree to which they are salient will vary , and the degree to which the reader responds in a given reading will also vary according to a number of factors , such as his attentiveness , sensitivity to style and previous reading experience . |
| 2 | What is of far greater importance is that the candidate should come across well on TV news programmes and should constantly be seen in favourable settings making crisp and newsworthy remarks . |
| 3 | As it can only be grown in Northern India among the foothills of the Himalayas , it is naturally always in great demand and once you savour the fragrance and taste of the rice for yourself you will understand why . |
| 4 | He quoted Lord Atkin that the doctrine of public policy ‘ should only be invoked in clear cases in which the harm to the public is substantially incontestable , and does not depend upon the idiosyncratic inferences of a few judicial minds ’ . |
| 5 | HIV can only be transmitted in certain ways . |
| 6 | Hitting some of the soft spots in certain ways can cause really serious injury and can only be justified in extreme circumstances . |
| 7 | The secular arm could only be enlisted in specific cases against named and duly warned individuals ; it could offer no aid against those categories of offenders pronounced , in various general and local sentences , as excommunicate ipso facto . |
| 8 | Thus approved Green Belt must only be altered in exceptional circumstances . |
| 9 | But they should only be eaten in small quantities , as should potatoes . |
| 10 | This technique can only be applied in bold , relatively thick outlines , and is therefore only used on items which employ reasonably simple designs . |
| 11 | The final point to be made is that in Re G ( a minor ) 1988 ( A11 FR p. 7(15) the House of Lords upheld the argument that adoption orders can be made with access but that these should only be made in exceptional circumstances although a distinction may be drawn between the position of birth parents and other relatives . |
| 12 | Carew Hunt , who was an authority at the Foreign Office on international communism and who wrote The Theory and Practice of Communism , argues that it can only be understood in religious terms . |
| 13 | The main contention which the authors intend to examine is that the role of such personnel can only be understood in dynamic context . |
| 14 | Stays imposed on the grounds of delay or for any other reason should only be employed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 15 | Stays imposed on the grounds of delay or for any other reason should only be employed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 16 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 17 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 18 | Iron concentrations ( 3.5 µM ) could only be estimated in gastric juice because of unavoidable contamination , but these were about 15-fold lower than previously reported values . |
| 19 | The Department of Health told health authorities last autumn such mergers would only be allowed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 20 | While the rules do not prevent this , Home Officer Circular 48/1991 , para 58 makes it clear that such an arrangement involves unnecessary duplication and should only be allowed in exceptional circumstances . |
| 21 | These more advanced manoeuvres can only be performed in perfect conditions with smooth well-formed waves and a sideshore wind . |
| 22 | I feel it is wholly wrong that abortion could be seen as a means of contraception because it not only wastes the money of the N.H.S. but I think that abortions should only be considered in certain cases . |
| 23 | And there is another problem which can only be solved in close collaboration with Ukraine and Belarus — the Polish aspect , for , according to Valeriy Kulishov , the Poles are also preparing their claims . |
| 24 | Garlic , for example , must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin . |
| 25 | Punning , coining and wordplay are not immediately accessible to many readers ; and as sustained devices , they can only be used in written texts , not in everyday speech . |
| 26 | In ‘ Capital ’ Marx wrote that the ‘ immanent laws of capitalist production itself lead to ‘ the growth of the cooperative form of the labour process , the conscious technical application of science … the transformation of the means of labour into forms which can only be used in common , the economising of all means of production by their use as the means of production of combined , socialised labour ’ ( 1976 , p. 929 ) . |
| 27 | The use of this method in the mouse is currently in its infancy and since the procedure requires cells to pass through a round of replication in the presence of BrdU , it can only be used in cultured cells , which , because of the numbers required , are limited to third passage embryonic fibroblasts from pooled day 12 — IS embryos . |
| 28 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 29 | And more importantly , most rural schools do n't have electricity , so the television programmes could only be used in urban areas . |
| 30 | In R v East Sussex CC , ex pR [ 1990 ] FLR 837 the President of the Family Division supported this view and said that judicial review should only be used in exceptional circumstances to challenge a case conference decision which did not result in a child 's removal from home . |