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 | Bowe might just have been demonstrating an innate sense of psychological testing techniques . |
| 5 | One great risk they have already taken is to plant a new church : after all , it may not survive ! |
| 6 | Léonie had discovered that , without ever having been taught a single rule of grammar , she spoke the language perfectly . |
| 7 | As suggested above , what Community law seems to require national courts positively to do is to identify an organisational function and then to ascertain whether control of that function has been transferred from one person to another in such a way that the function retains its operational structure . |
| 8 | Even those they later reject are found a loving home with a member of the Force . |
| 9 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He might as well have been devising a new war game . |
| 17 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 18 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 19 | So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful . |
| 20 | Patients nationwide have been promised a guaranteed service including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 21 | Patients nationwide have been promised an improved service , including an ambulance within 14 minutes in urban areas and 19 minutes in rural areas . |
| 22 | What they have not yet done is to form a united organisation , or political party , to press that demand . |
| 23 | She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list . |
| 24 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |