Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] " 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 On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite .
4 A quarter of the income of these small farms comes from pigs and poultry , both of which multiply easily and can be intensively fed in small areas .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Those who champion smokers ' rights should surely recognize that non-smokers , including babies and children , may be harmfully affected by other people being free to smoke in public places .
8 Individual trees are just as likely to be harmfully overshadowed by members of their own species as by members of other species .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 How Grimm basked in that word ‘ bold ’ — not from pride , Jaq sensed , but because to utter such a compliment Meh'Lindi could not be wholly filled with self-loathing .
13 Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends .
14 Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker .
15 Hospitals were to be wholly funded from taxation , provided by statutory bodies — Regional Hospital Boards — and managed by hospital management committees , with nominated members .
16 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 .
17 Between 673 and 675 Wulfhere is found at his royal residence at Thame in Oxfordshire confirming a grant by which Frithuwald , sub-king of Wulfhere in the province of Surrey , gave land to Chertsey in the company of three other sub-kings , most probably of the regions bordering on Surrey — Osric , Wigheard and Aethelwald , all representing territories soon to be wholly subsumed within larger political creations ( CS 34 : S 1165 ) .
18 By the end , we can easily see why Maud Gonne never wanted him to be wholly rid of his obsession .
19 Creative activity , if its meanings are not to be wholly absorbed within the status quo , must be understandable , for Hewison , as confrontational activity .
20 When we are in the material world doing work or playing , we should do them with enthusiasm and be wholly committed to them .
21 As a non-physicist I have often wondered if the difference in photon energy ( E' — E = hf' — hf ) of the shifted and unshifted light could be wholly accounted for by the effect of the surface velocity ( v ) acting together with the particle equivalent mass of the photon .
22 Then , as before , at one extreme , unc can contain n — q columns of the minor , which are linearly independent ; at the other extreme , the minor could be wholly contained in unc and unc could be null , when D has degeneracy
23 The third category of definition fails because musical types and practices , even those of the most minority sort , can never be wholly contained by particular social contexts .
24 by no means can Ford 's failure be wholly attributed to his personal inadequacies .
25 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 .
26 Tensions within the village would still be wholly overshadowed by a sense of common interest , a shared way of life and outlook .
27 THE COMMON MODERN NOVEL , IN WHICH THERE IS NO IMAGINATION , BUT A MISERABLE STRUGGLE TO EXCITE AND GRATIFY MERE CURIOSITY , OUGHT , IN MY JUDGEMENT , TO BE WHOLLY FORBIDDEN TO CHILDREN .
28 ‘ These things ought , in my judgement , to be wholly forbidden to children , ’ I said , instead .
29 The Palais du Prince du Sommeil , written by Celestin de Mirbel in 1667 actually advises in his preface that , " The favours of the strictest ladies will be wholly won for you , at the moment when you become the sympathetic interpreter of their dreams " — certainly a pragmatic reason for buying his dream-book .
30 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 .
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