Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK government reportedly favoured the principle of " subsidiarity " [ see also p. 36741 ] , which it took to mean that decisions should only be made in Brussels which could not better be taken at national level . |
| 2 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 3 | Males , also , can especially be affected by coercive inducements , usually in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | Any cliff or headland which faces the direction from which the greatest waves come will obviously be exposed to severe wave attack . |
| 5 | The logic of exploiting the perception gap between the real cost of benefits and their perceived value to the employee can obviously be applied to other benefits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 8 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 9 | Partnerships could henceforth be established between consenting adults so that ‘ two men could live permanently together without fearing prattling informers bringing down the criminal law upon them ’ . |
| 10 | He said that guerrilla attacks would henceforth be directed at military targets , state companies and economic installations among others . |
| 11 | Quantitative measures may allow a discovery of pattern in the situations which might otherwise merely be seen as random variation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 14 | Japan claims that essential data on the Minke population can only be obtained from dead whales . |
| 15 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 16 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 17 | Arrowhead should only be grown with other alkaline-loving species . |
| 18 | Lucerne , on which Young set such high hopes , could only be grown on deep soils or on irrigated land , and there it was to produce a minor revolution . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Such discrepancies can only be bridged by national funding . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | In Stage II , however , resits may only be given on compulsory modules , normally including projects and dissertations . |
| 23 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 24 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 25 | HIV can only be transmitted in certain ways . |
| 26 | Marx 's challenge to capitalism therefore took the general form of demonstrating the general forces which govern the history of man , and demonstrating how historical processes produce systems of institutions and ideas os such complexity that their origin can only be discovered with great theoretical effort and by examination of the historical evidence . |
| 27 | Just because Ben Nevis is a popular peak do n't be lulled into a false sense of security — it 's a peak worthy of respect and in snow and mist should only be tackled by experienced walkers . |
| 28 | It should only be tackled by fit walkers who know what they 're doing with a map and compass . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 30 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |