Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunch had not altogether been a waste of time . |
| 2 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 3 | I find that the , the people who waffle the most are the people who know least . |
| 4 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 5 | Finniston is in no doubt that making decisions and seeing them implemented properly are the most important aspects of a chairman 's job . |
| 6 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 7 | Liberal democracy benefits capitalism not because capitalists control workers ' minds but because the industrial proletariat have rarely been a majority and are a now shrinking minority in advanced capitalist societies . |
| 8 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 9 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 10 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 11 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 12 | Ferranti has had its problems in the past so has rarely been an investors ' favourite . |
| 13 | National practices in the definition and classification of enterprises vary widely ( Pathirane and Blades 1982 : 28–91 ) and rarely are the criteria made fully explicit in national accounts ( 263 ) . |
| 14 | Gray had at the most been a shade injudicious , a little unworldly , perhaps , in his supervision of Jefferson . |
| 15 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 16 | However , the main causes of parcels becoming damaged or going astray are the following : |
| 17 | Some children tend to insist that their models , cars , towers , etc. are the biggest , fastest or tallest and it is not always kind to suggest otherwise . |
| 18 | Fourthly are the fragments of evidence that allow relative and absolute dating to be undertaken by an increasingly varied range of techniques . |
| 19 | How right are the comments made by John Stewart about the current crop of Gaelic television programmes . |
| 20 | Right are the hens , oh the hens are alright . |
| 21 | Traditionally , corporate takeover activity has predominantly been a feature of UK and US markets . |
| 22 | and since are a big potential one one ninety four I 've got down here . |
| 23 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 24 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 25 | There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) . |
| 26 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 27 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |
| 28 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 29 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 30 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |