Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 2 | This stem has been cut at too sharp an angle , and too close to the bud . |
| 3 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 4 | It just means the grim reaper has been called upon probably just means called upon . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the former is now given Very Difficult in the guidebook while the latter has been raised to Hard Very Severe . |
| 6 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 7 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 8 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 9 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 10 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 11 | For example , the brutal effect of Example 141(c) can be changed considerably if we dispose the vertical components of each chord differently : Here , the harshness of the original , with its dissonant 2nds and 7ths , has been converted to much less discordant chord-successions . |
| 12 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 13 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 14 | What has been neglected for far too long are methods of transferring passengers and goods from one transport system to another . |
| 15 | They say the canal is a big tourist attraction , and has been neglected for too long . |
| 16 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 17 | It is argued that the traditional bureaucratic mechanistic structure that has been operating for so long can no longer cope with the dynamic environment that we now live in . |
| 18 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 19 | I think that 's a very good question , I think though that that has been looked at very very thoroughly by the County Council , and certainly there are only a very limited number of options available around York which would actually meet the needs of York . |
| 20 | It er it , we , certainly the expansion of Tadcaster has been looked at quite thoroughly , though not only by the local authorities , but by the private sector , and the , and I think the the agreement has been that it it is not possible at the scale which is required to meet the needs of Greater York . |
| 21 | One beauty expert says perfume has been overpriced for far too long . |
| 22 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 23 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | It has been dealt with often enough . |
| 25 | It does n't seem fair that my relatively small problem has been dealt with so efficiently , whereas you and others I know have to struggle on with far greater difficulties . |
| 26 | The old-fashioned , rather genteel , image of nursing employment agencies has been superseded by much more streamlined , commercially aware organisations run with a mixture of personnel expertise and crisis management . |
| 27 | This place has been occupied by just about everyone you could name over the centuries . |
| 28 | Sixteen-year-old Michael , from Stowmarket , has been shooting for just over two years , and his dedication and practice paid off as he came a magnificent third place in the senior compound section . |
| 29 | So far the type of situation in which salt fingers occur has been specified in only rather general terms . |
| 30 | German Renaissance painting , beloved of 1930s art historians , is a subject that Warnke believes has been avoided for too long . |