Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making . |
| 2 | Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class . |
| 3 | Indeed , the permanent absence of humans has rarely been cited as a condition . |
| 4 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 5 | ( These have since been tightened as a result of the events in June 1989 ) . |
| 6 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 7 | The threat has since been withdrawn in a statement issued to the local Press . |
| 8 | The papers have since been published as a collection by ESRC ( ‘ Global Restructuring , Local Response' ed Philip Cooke , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 10 | The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle , which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse . |
| 11 | The area had effectively been abandoned as a port in favour of new sites further down the Thames which used the then new technology of roll on/roll off container ships . |
| 12 | It 's a simple principle , you give everybody a number and the numbers as they move on are shown on a display board . |
| 13 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 14 | This had hitherto been prevented in a desire to help encourage mobile industries to locate in the less prosperous regions of the north and west . |
| 15 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 16 | Airline access to Heathrow had hitherto been restricted by a rule introduced in 1977 , declaring that only those airlines which already served it could continue to do so . |
| 17 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 18 | In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment . |
| 19 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 20 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 21 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 22 | Many a case had only been solved by a combination of Morton 's flair and his own instincts . |
| 23 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 24 | The downstairs stable-garage part had apparently been converted into a studio . |
| 25 | The kidnap has apparently been perpetrated by a cell of international terrorists , and that automatically makes it a matter for state security . |
| 26 | Gusmao had long been regarded as a symbol of the resistance to Indonesian rule in East Timor and his capture was a massive blow to Fretilin . |
| 27 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 28 | The University of San Carlos has long been regarded as a hotbed of opposition , and the list of those imprisoned , tortured and murdered is long , even since 1986 . |
| 29 | Second , income tax has long been regarded as a tax of central importance in government management of the economy ; it is a major financial and psychological weapon in securing the success of the Cabinet 's economic strategy . |
| 30 | The British countryside has long been regarded as a source of out-migration and a pool of reserve labour for urban areas . |