Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this discrepancy is not known ; it might be because there are short-term fluctuations in the rate of lava eruption and that recently the rate has been well below the long-term average . |
| 2 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 3 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 4 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 5 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 6 | In Devon , in particular , both private and public sector new housing has been predominantly in the larger settlements , especially those within commuting distance of the main urban centres ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 7 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 8 | Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 9 | Emphasis has been more towards the local scale because of the demand for soil maps in relation to agricultural and other land use purposes . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 11 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 12 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 13 | This has been accomplished in Switzerland with such precision in the past that involuntary unemployment has been often in the low hundreds . |
| 14 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 15 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 16 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 17 | This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | However , the lowest values of the Reynolds number ( around 2 × 103 ) at which transition occurs are well below the minimum value ( a little above 104 ) at which theory indicates the existence of an unstable region . |
| 19 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |
| 20 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 21 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 22 | It 's been here since the late 19th century . |
| 23 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 24 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 25 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 26 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 27 | It 's been all over the Pink Paper . |
| 28 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 29 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 30 | She 's been there for the last month . |