Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The York cycle was first revived during the Festival of Britain in 1951 and has since been performed every four years as part of York Festival . |
2 | He had perhaps been expecting a tougher comment and he hunched his shoulders , muttering suspiciously , ‘ I have n't got no religion . ’ |
3 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
4 | Following the October general election , John Malecela , a former high commissioner to the United Kingdom , was appointed Prime Minister on Nov. 8 , replacing Joseph Warioba , who had hitherto been considered an eventual successor to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi . |
5 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
6 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
7 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
8 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
9 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
10 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
11 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
12 | Now what I would like Mr Alistaire and the rest of the Scottish M P's is to bring up in parliament a Scotland will have to be revalued every five years as done in the past where England have only been revalued every seventeen years , which I think is most unfair . |
13 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
14 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
15 | The Russian panslavist press had long been advocating a Franco-Russian alliance and in November 1887 Bismarck had forbidden the Reichsbank to float a Russian loan . |
16 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
17 | The divine has long been made an intimate participant in male experiences of violence , in war and in political martyrdom . |
18 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
19 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
20 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
21 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
22 | Them alone are werf a small fortune . |
23 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
24 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
25 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
26 | Discount levels are determined according to aggregate purchases over three years and will apparently be policed every four months . |
27 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
28 | In the 1950s he felt we could n't afford a new car , so be bought a prewar London taxi , and he and I built a Nissen hut as a garage . |
29 | By not addressing these issues school management would be failing to seize the opportunity of LMS and would merely be extending the previous resource practice into the new era . |
30 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |