Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Very heavy Syrian casualties would apparently have been deemed a lesser price to pay than the probable failure of anything less than what the general 's men say was planned : a full-scale armoured and infantry assault involving 40,000 men on five main axes along a 50-kilometre front . |
2 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
3 | It would just have been having a good time . |
4 | One great risk they have already taken is to plant a new church : after all , it may not survive ! |
5 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
6 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
7 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
8 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
9 | You need to put a lot of energy into your work and career at the beginning of June , Virgo , when all you really want is to create a secure home environment for yourself ! |
10 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
11 | What Burley 's group has now done is to add a new protein structural motif to this list by solving the cocrystal structure of the basic/helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper ( b/HLH/Z ) domain of Max bound to DNA at 2.9 A resolution . |
12 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
13 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
14 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
15 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |
16 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
17 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
18 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
19 | Patients nationwide have been promised a guaranteed service including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
20 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
21 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |