Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er , to what extent the rift er , filled , I do n't think it can be wholly filled as a function of the recovery in er , the market for land . |
| 8 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 9 | Nor can the charge of time-serving be wholly accepted of a prelate who was on good terms with John XXII , who protested against the king 's retention of the Templars ' lands , and whose piety was esteemed by contemporaries . |
| 10 | Creative activity , if its meanings are not to be wholly absorbed within the status quo , must be understandable , for Hewison , as confrontational activity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tensions within the village would still be wholly overshadowed by a sense of common interest , a shared way of life and outlook . |
| 13 | Corners of the garden which are awkward and difficult to plant decoratively because of their size and soil state , could be successfully filled with a container-grown herb or herbs , even changing the display as the seasons alter . |
| 14 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | But there was sufficient sex feeling left over to need an outlet and this was often more than could be successfully sublimated into a mere exuberance of energy in reading or games or any other form of camp activity . |
| 17 | The varnish can also be successfully applied over a solvent-based stain if required . |
| 18 | The elusive creature may be successfully trailed for a time , then disappear for months and even years . |
| 19 | A major firm has probably sunk cost in such a way that it is unlikely to be successfully challenged by an entrant . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This awkwardness which might be successfully exploited by a writer in a different context , forces itself on the reader 's attention , detracting from the force of discreet . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 30 | One of the most important aspects of a writer 's creative personality is the degree to which he or she is sensitive and responsive to changes in public tastes , and is able to sense when such changes are in the ascendancy , acceptable to the vast majority of people , and can be successfully used within an advertising context . |