Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 2 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 3 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 4 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 5 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
| 6 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 7 | Part of the ritual of returning home was hearing the loud injunction to passengers to remind them to change if necessary : ‘ Fontanellato , Soragna , Busseto , Noceto , Medesano , si cambia ! ’ |
| 8 | Philip Gould of the Shadow Communications Agency has also been spotted at John Smith 's press conferences , which perhaps explains why Smith has still been wearing the red rose . |
| 9 | Even as I am recounting the edited version , it occurs to me that Fairfax has probably been doing the same thing . |
| 10 | If the l.e.d. does not light , it has probably been inserted the wrong way round in the circuit — reverse its leads and try again . |
| 11 | CCEM , which was also created to maintain and operate the government 's communication networks , has also been providing the same services to private customers . |
| 12 | It has good beaches , dramatic scenery and has even been given the royal nod . |
| 13 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 14 | Though when confidential information has actually been misused the applicable remedies are damages and an account of profits . |
| 15 | that 's not all you can do now is blame the Labour Party , it 's incredible now . |
| 16 | He 'd either been following the earlier ramifications of her disquieting thoughts , or he was making a shot in the dark that , she feared , might be all too accurate . |
| 17 | I do n't remember actually being told the old plan . ’ |
| 18 | Erm what we 're trying to do here is to get the clerical sections more involved in the projects , and in passing the paper backwards and forwards . |
| 19 | You were talking earlier about er applying the lessons learned here from the tornado programme to Eurofighter , surely the best way of doing so is to involve the same people , they 're in the same building . |
| 20 | The new quantities introduced here are called the metric connections . |
| 21 | To pretend otherwise is to confuse the constitutional position . |
| 22 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 23 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 24 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 25 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 26 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 27 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 28 | Cadfael had already been considering the same question , and could only conclude that the abbot had indeed total faith that the Gospels would justify Shrewsbury in possession of its saint . |
| 29 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 30 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |