Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas .
2 The government currently only supports voluntary labelling through the EC and foods that are high in sugars and fats tend to be inadequately described .
3 Problems relating to the policing of legislation are also considered to be inadequately dealt with .
4 These would have to be actuarily based , and increased contributions would be required .
5 He would be only the second goalkeeper to be similarly honoured by the Scottish Professional Footballers ' Association ( Theo Snelders , in 1989 , was the other ) .
6 In addition , the newer agents such as prostacyclin and its stable analogues and thromboxane synthetase inhibitors need to be similarly evaluated .
7 The higher the eventual rank , the more likely was blame to be similarly apportioned .
8 We would note that many languages have , in addition to the three basic sentence-types mentioned above , others that appear to be similarly circumscribed in use : exclamatives that are used paradigmatically to express surprise , imprecatives to curse , optatives to express a wish , and so on ( again , see Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) .
9 Although the Bill of Rights was important for enumerating various " Liberties of this Kingdom " ( Some of which were to be similarly expressed during the following century in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution ) , its essential purpose was to assert the position of Parliament in relation to the Crown .
10 A plaintiff or a defendant sued in a representative capacity may apply for the appointment of one defendant to represent all , or all those named , and a plaintiff suing in a representative capacity may apply to be similarly appointed ( Ord 5 , r 2 ) .
11 The vultures have been buying up other bonds likely to be similarly treated .
12 Associated funding is to be similarly redirected
13 Such an agreement could easily give rise to the inference that they intended the passing of property to be similarly postponed ( see Underwood v. Burgh Castle Brick & cement Syndicate , above ) .
14 If the McKinsey-GE matrix is to be similarly interpreted as a guide to the movement of the group 's interests through time , one must assume that a substantial amount of investment must take place in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid in order to build future ‘ stars ’ .
15 Between 1948 and 1991 Parliament passed eight substantive Criminal Justice Acts for England and Wales , one Criminal Law Act which was close enough in content to the specifically criminal justice legislation to be similarly classified , four Scottish Criminal Justice Acts , and several acts dealing with criminal justice administration , international co-operation and minor matters requiring legislation .
16 The likelihood that a person enters higher education continues to be strongly related to his or her family 's social class .
17 However , this is not what was expected from Study 1 where recall seemed to be strongly related to ratings of subjective risk .
18 It is thus not clear that these accident estimates are particularly stable assessments of the objective danger at the junction ; they are likely to be strongly determined by risk ratings .
19 Staff and parents need to be strongly motivated to seek an integrated placement in a children 's day centre or nursery school .
20 To reverse the same idea , individual behaviour is seen to be strongly influenced by the systems in which it functions .
21 By contrast , the Re-Os system does not seem to be strongly influenced by the processes that cause the SCLM to be enriched in incompatible trace elements .
22 Although all political parties were officially banned the ruling RCC was generally judged to be strongly influenced by the fundamentalist National Islamic Front , led by Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi .
23 These mostly involved piecemeal or rounding-off development in existing settlements or small groups of houses , but it nevertheless indicates a surprising flexibility in the application of policy even in those areas where one would expect the policy to be strongly applied .
24 For example , it is now more than twenty years since team models of social service staff deployment began to be strongly advocated in the United States and , although actual research on this approach has been limited in recent years , good results were reported from the use of social service teams in a variety of settings , including mental hospitals ( Barker and Briggs , 1969 ) , public welfare departments ( Schwartz and Sample , 1967 ) and elsewhere ( Brieland et al . ,
25 In such cases hearers have relatively little responsibility in the choice of contextual assumptions and contextual effects , which are said to be strongly communicated .
26 All new ideas need to be strongly challenged and tested at the planning stage and the marketing agnostic on the staff will often usefully worry out unsuspected flaws .
27 They therefore need to be strongly managed and should not be left to the local office to undertake on their own .
28 The underlying values by which organizations are to be run have to be strongly set through a variety of management processes — in particular , through reinforcement by top management and the reward system .
29 Housing , transport and locational problems were clearly of great magnitude , the greatest pressures of land shortage being felt on the periphery , where encroachments into the green belt were likely to be strongly resisted .
30 With melodies , accompaniment figuration , choruses and arias on a par with Handel 's very best , Archiv has produced a recording to be strongly recommended and much enjoyed .
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