Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be no compromise between safety and commercial motivation , but occasionally the divulging of information might be commercially damaging to the business involved . |
| 2 | All you basically need is one composition fixed in any material form , be it record , tape , manuscript or any other , which can be commercially exploited by the public . |
| 3 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 4 | However , others , with apparently convincing exotic locations , can be wholly shot in the studio , with the aid of sophisticated scenery effects , often using a moving matte technique to achieve verisimilitude . |
| 5 | This newly created honourary office carried with it ex officio membership of the executive committee so that , it was hoped Ayliffe 's years of experience would not be wholly lost to the Association by his decision not to offer himself for reelection as President . |
| 6 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 7 | Creative activity , if its meanings are not to be wholly absorbed within the status quo , must be understandable , for Hewison , as confrontational activity . |
| 8 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 9 | For criminologists surely ‘ can never be successfully involved at the sharp end , or pointy end , dealing with angry men on the cold , hard streets ’ ( from fieldnotes ) . |
| 10 | The exercise of these powers can not be successfully challenged in the courts unless it can be shown that the Home Secretary has acted unreasonably or perversely . |
| 11 | It was only after a new system of physics had been devised , a process that involved the intellectual labour of many scientists over several centuries , that the new theory could be successfully matched with the results of observation and experiment in a detailed way . |
| 12 | If evolutionary theory can be successfully extended to the assembly of the mind and the creation of cultural diversity , the result may well rank as the completion of the Darwinian revolution . |
| 13 | But if we assume that such an appeal can be successfully made on the economic front , this strategy needs to be knitted in with a range of other policies that appeal to altruism as well as self-interest . |
| 14 | Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology . |
| 15 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ . |
| 17 | Current Cheltenham second favourite Mighty Mogul is likely to head the market here but , in a race that could be slowly run in the absence of an obvious front-runner , he is worth opposing . |
| 18 | They are normally made of cellulose or a cellulose derivative and should be slowly conditioned from the storage liquid to the solvent in use . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind that it will be mostly hidden by the curtain that will fall around it , and that it may also have to support a wire umbrella frame , a 3 inch ( 7.5cm ) diameter or square stake is not too big . |
| 20 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 21 | Well , it could be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants but only loosely , because it also consists of substances associated with these cell walls . |
| 22 | It was during the composition of " East Coker " at Emperor 's Gate that the idea of a quartet of poems occurred to him , a sequence which would be loosely based upon the scheme of the four seasons and the four elements . |
| 23 | The effect of short spacing on infant mortality seems to be loosely associated with the overall level of infant mortality . |
| 24 | The elderly who expressed continuing sexual interests would be mercilessly ridiculed by the youth groups of their village . |
| 25 | The fact that OFIs are responsible for over 50% of equity finance means that share prices will be predominantly affected by the portfolio preferences of these institutions . |
| 26 | His record will be little noted as the years and colleagues and companions have passed , but it is a proud record of willing service . |
| 27 | That there would be little support for the self-appraisal in terms of any provision of time perhaps emphasized the low priority accorded to it . |
| 28 | After 36 month 's weathering , the bones of the skull were found to be little altered beyond the condition described above . |
| 29 | Until economic growth returns , there would appear to be little respite for the industry 's labour force . |
| 30 | He said 7,000 other positions in marketing and service are also to be eventually cut from the workforce , which totalled 90,000 at the end of 1992 . |