Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | Herein are contained significant elements of the dominant nineteenth-century ideology of local government-depoliticisation , economy and utilitarianism — around a limited conception of municipal enterprise that bore few traces of the brand of municipal socialism forced onto the political agenda by the labour group . |
| 3 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 4 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 5 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 6 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 7 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 8 | What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process . |
| 9 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 10 | The Rev. Francis Lambert had only been ordained three weeks before his death , the dedication of this window taking place on Sept. 4th 1892 . |
| 11 | But the workers have only been paid nine pounds for the month . |
| 12 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 13 | Osteostracans ( cephalaspids ) have long been considered close relatives of lampreys despite a total difference in overall body shape . |
| 14 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 15 | Andy Boyack , from the Rail Maritime and Transport Union , said : ‘ The lads have all been allocated other jobs within the normal maintenance sections . ’ |
| 16 | But at this moment some six hundred land girls in Sussex alone are attacking this job against all the ’ . |
| 17 | To do so would not only be to abandon deep-seated conceptions of justice and desert , but to abandon the conception of ‘ guilt ’ itself . |
| 18 | See the minister , priest or rabbi to book the big day ( register office weddings can only be booked three months in advance ) |
| 19 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 20 | In the home and in the workplace , women are constantly being urged these days to be more assertive . |
| 21 | We are constantly being offered esoteric techniques of relaxation and meditation to counteract stress , yet choose to ignore what is naturally available or are ashamed to use it . |
| 22 | In any out-patient department patients are daily being given life-or-death judgements about their future . |
| 23 | One way of persuading people to drink sensibly is to provide good-tasting alternatives with less alcohol . |
| 24 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 25 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 26 | We 're simply saying that it 's not been demonstrated that regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account . |
| 27 | We have still not been given any kind of direct word , we 've not been back in direct communication with them . |
| 28 | She had not been given any choice in the matter . |
| 29 | There may also be funds in bank or building society accounts but we have not been given any details of these . |
| 30 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |