Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | They are condemned as signs of unclear or lazy thinking — and , indeed , when they are overused or inappropriately used ( as in a wall of political hedging erected by a defensive politician ) — they are widely and justifiably attacked . |
| 3 | Hamilton played well , Palace won 2–1 and his claim for a first team place had been properly and completely justified . |
| 4 | Like farming , at a time when vines and corn grew haphazardly here and there but were not cultivated , philosophy has never been properly and methodically developed . |
| 5 | I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard . |
| 6 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 7 | Current hyper-text systems have been widely and effectively used on relatively small data volumes . |
| 8 | All creatures communicate only in the manner to which they are instinctively and inwardly programmed . |
| 9 | Patrick peeled back the blankets , examining the bandages ; they had been professionally and properly tied and applied . |
| 10 | The problems arise in determining how both tasks are effectively and humanely carried out . |
| 11 | Stock management is a very important factor in ensuring that the printed collections are properly and reliably controlled , and are available for readers whenever they wish to consult them . |
| 12 | Successful committee members are properly and thoroughly prepared for the meetings they attend . |
| 13 | However , it is important that training sessions are properly and sensibly structured . |
| 14 | When her cloak was removed in the Rectory hall and she went into the drawing-room which had been lavishly and clumsily decorated by the children on precisely the principle Alexandra had used in dressing , they crowded round her with gasps of delight and wonder . |
| 15 | In the following , I shall argue that while this distinction is a vital conceptual ingredient in any meaningful references to object-topics qua ontological existents , it can not be " explained " in terms of the criteria under which such existents are numerically and qualitatively re-identified and distinguished from one another . |
| 16 | A single-volume history has recently been courageously and skilfully attempted by Hugh Honour and John Fleming , which inevitably suffers from the problem of compression . |
| 17 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 18 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
| 19 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 20 | It also relates to the way in which subjects are not presented — to processes and procedures and methods which are rarely or never employed . |
| 21 | Children also have to acquire forms of written language which are rarely or never used in spoken English , since written language is not just spoken language written down . |
| 22 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
| 23 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 24 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 25 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 26 | All are immaculately and truthfully reinstated by Allan Evans and Seth B Winner Sound Studios Inc . |
| 27 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 28 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 29 | At times Great Chaos beasts find a way down to Avelorn from the Annulii and ravage the land , but they are swiftly and ruthlessly hunted down by the Everqueen 's would-be consorts in an effort to gain her favour . |
| 30 | Both slow movements are warmly and elegantly done , and if in the outer ones the soloist sometimes seems to be hell-bent on reaching the winning post first , the orchestra keeps up with ease . |