Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller fields , however , could be commercially developed onshore and fields as small as 50 Bcf might be an attractive proposition offshore , if they were to be developed as satellites to larger fields . |
| 2 | A significant feature of this narrative as a whole is the division between what might be loosely termed descriptive and actional frames . |
| 3 | The rhetorical approach to social psychology would emphasize the importance of contrary themes within what can be loosely termed common sense . |
| 4 | At all times , but increasingly in the later eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries , new techniques have been brought in by observing their use elsewhere what would now be unkindly called industrial espionage — and sometimes by tempting away workmen . |
| 5 | If a flat sailed ( for descriptive convenience ) ship were to be constantly sailed anti-clockwise around an island with the wind blowing from the north , the sail would always lie in line with a point due east on the sailed circle ( due west if sailed clockwise ) . |
| 6 | Vibration problems at BPXC 's wells are more dramatic and commonplace than elsewhere because the formations are hard and the holes tend to be extremely enlarged due to wellbore ‘ breakout ’ phenomena , so that the drillstring easily loses stability . |
| 7 | The vaccination programme has been criticised on the grounds that this massive time and effort could be better spent improving drugs to cure leprosy . |
| 8 | But the whole concept of past-life regression was thought to be at best unbelievable and at worst as some form of dabbling in an area which would be better left unexplored . |
| 9 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 10 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 11 | Children 's bedrooms are usually small areas with light-coloured walls , so there should be enough reflected light to lighten up the main scene of action , but if you do bring in any additional low-level lighting , take care to position it where it will not get in the way of the camera or shine into the lens . |
| 12 | The committee accepted that solicitors from private practices could be conditionally granted full rights of audience in either civil or criminal cases in higher courts . |
| 13 | We decided to spread the baits around into some new areas which could now be comfortably fished due to the removal of the carp rods . |
| 14 | When all the available resources have been allocated in this way the remainder of the new project proposals should be formally declared inactive . |
| 15 | The Courtaulds Packaging result should be further increased due to special non-trading factors . |
| 16 | ‘ Again , the things that we see to be hard and dense must needs consist of particles more mutually hooked and must be deeply held compact by branch-like elements . |
| 17 | While the empirical tests reveal an arbitrage opportunity , this can not be profitably exploited due to the use of stale prices in the computation of the index , the use of non-synchronous closing prices , inadequate allowance for transactions costs , regulatory restrictions ( such as the US uptick restriction on short selling shares , which limits arbitrage aimed at removing an underpricing of futures contracts ) , time lags in trading the portfolio of shares corresponding to the index , the presence of arbitrage risk ( the arbitrage transaction is not riskless due to uncertain dividends , uncertain interest rates , failure to unwind the share position at the EDSP , and so on ) or because the model used to compute the no-arbitrage prices is incorrect . |
| 18 | Specific data needs to be recorded about piece parts , allowing both the graphical representation and technical data to be clearly defined ready for efficient recall when required . |
| 19 | Her hair fell thick and straight to her square shoulders ; it was a shade too dark to be fairly termed blonde , but Victoria 's canon of style rejected tinting — or at least , tinting which could be recognised as such . |
| 20 | It is argued that the contribution that the technicians make to the industry will be severely limited due to their lack of training in computer aided design . |
| 21 | At Thunder Bay we played our one and only outside match on the solidly frozen River Macintyre , but this had to be severely curtailed due to the intense cold . |
| 22 | The ethos of the receiving school in terms of accepting pupils with special needs and the physical environment in terms of the school campus and classrooms should be realistically appraised prior to recommendations for individual placements . |
| 23 | The practical result would be substantially reduced maximum output current , and a lot of ripple on the d.c. output . |
| 24 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 25 | Even when their attitude to chastity is positive and enriching , they are still made to feel that they are less than normal and lacking what it takes to be fully developed human beings . |
| 26 | These two assumptions together imply that , under the stipulated conditions of perfect competition , the capital stock will always be fully utilized irrespective of the extent of unemployment in the labour market . |
| 27 | In order to satisfy Rule 4 , it may be necessary for modules to be brought online to be hard copied prior to deletion . |
| 28 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 29 | It can be readily made available for general use . |
| 30 | Ancient sedimentary deposits which can not be readily disaggregated present major difficulties to the potential size-analyst . |