Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the process of financial liberalization in Japan has been gradual and therefore a simple ( 0 , 1 ) dummy variable will not suffice .
2 She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students .
3 The bag has been far and away the smallest in my lifetime .
4 Russell Reynolds was the last of the Big Four to enter the London market — in 1972 — but has been far and away the most consistently successful .
5 Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each .
6 For all normal record updating a loss of this magnitude can be expected , but it would not apply if the processing involved is trivial because then the records can be processed at reading — that is , rotation — speeds .
7 The finish was as accurate as the rest of the Belgians ' efforts had been wayward and suddenly the numerical disadvantage Rangers were working under threatened to be a severe handicap .
8 In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity .
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