Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deposits of galena are widely distributed but by no means equally accessible to early centres of civilization . |
| 2 | In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue . |
| 3 | However the in-house system had not been properly tested and by early this year problems had started . |
| 4 | However the in-house system had not been properly tested and by early this year problems had started . |
| 5 | a ‘ cultural heritage ’ view emphasises the responsibility of schools to lead children to an appreciation of those works of literature that have been widely regarded as amongst the finest in the language ; |
| 6 | It has been widely reported that in Italy , for example , whole industries operate outside the officially recorded economy . |
| 7 | We support the views of the County Planning Officers Society and the Government that the 1981 provisions have not been widely used because of ( a ) the financial implications of compensation for minerals planning authorities ( MPAs ) , ( b ) the staffing and resource implications for MPAs who were expected to implement the provisions , and ( c ) the complexity and cumbersome nature of the provisions themselves . |
| 8 | Furthermore , until the coming of oil the planning regulations had not been rigorously implemented but with the transition to Island Authority status and the creation of the Structure Plan the planners sought to justify their existence . |
| 9 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 10 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 11 | Today the docks are little used except by barges carrying timber , but they cover an area of eight acres and many elegant brick-built warehouses and wharves survive . |
| 12 | This had been badly damaged when on Oct. 3 the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the government 's proposals , based on the main plank of Smallholders ' policy , to return to their original owners lands confiscated by the state after the communists had taken power in 1947 . |
| 13 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 14 | The recently-held Day of Recollection for members of the APC and friends had been greatly appreciated and as a result a further Day of Recollection will be held in the spring . |
| 15 | The politician 's dilemma has never been better stated than by George Dempster in a letter which he wrote to Sir Adam Fergusson in 1783 : |
| 16 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 17 | Youngsters ( over 18 ) are especially needed and of course all those who are young at heart ! ! |
| 18 | It has been suggested that early alarms were ignored but I would like to emphasize that we are greatly curtailed as to actions a public body can take based only on hearsay and rumour . |
| 19 | Trolls are greatly feared because of their unthinking ferocity and indiscriminate appetite . |
| 20 | I describe the proceedings here , however , because they raise questions about the willingness of the GMC to protect patients from forms of diagnosis and treatments which have not been sufficiently validated and about its lenient attitude to a doctor who persistently touted for business by attracting the interest of tabloid journalists . |
| 21 | Notice how some of the words when repeated are better spoken than at other times , according to the level of passion in the delivery . |
| 22 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 23 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 24 | Personally , I am much encouraged that in response to pressure the Bill was amended to make it flexible enough to accommodate pupils ' special educational needs . |
| 25 | They may be imposed in the form of obligations of strict liability to which defences are extremely limited or in more general and voluntary concepts of negligent omissions and commissions . |
| 26 | The inclusion criteria were that all subjects were current residents of Busselton , aged between 40 and 65 years in December 1990 , had been randomly selected except for a deliberate male to female bias for the purposes of the sleep study , and serum available from 1969 and 1990 . |
| 27 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 28 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 29 | French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese . |
| 30 | Broom flowers are so constructed that as the insect lands , the stamens , packed under tension inside a sealed capsule of petals , shoot out and strike the underside of the bee , covering its furry abdomen with pollen . |