Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data have mostly been provided by the organisations themselves . |
| 2 | Clearly , there could be no element of surprise , and although the rebel advance had been rapid until then , it had effectively been halted at the gates of Madrid . |
| 3 | The area had effectively been abandoned by the authorities , a fact which became clear during the riot itself , when police waited five hours to enter the estate and put down the disturbances . |
| 4 | Dauberval 's exclusion from the Académie Royale ( later the Paris Opera ) was justified by those in charge because they felt his idea of making farmers , peasants and the like the heroes and heroines of his ballets was beneath the dignity of an opera house whose stage had hitherto been occupied with the deeds of noble heroes , heroines and courts . |
| 5 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 6 | Jack Hassard , an NILP member of Dungannon Council , condemned the ban on the Market Square meeting , which had only been notified by the police at twelve o'clock the previous night . |
| 7 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 8 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 9 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 10 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 11 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 12 | Total returns outwards are deducted from the purchases account . |
| 13 | It has long been recognised by the courts that the protection of business secrets is a legitimate ground for the imposition of restrictions on persons to whom such secrets have been disclosed . |
| 14 | The influence of party structures had for long been curtailed by the arrangements for selecting chairmen ; arrangements which made it possible for situations to arise where the president , the Congressional party leadership and a majority of the majority party could all be united on a particular issue yet might be thwarted by the whims of an all-powerful committee chairman . |
| 15 | " Material obstacles to this " , he told the tsar , " have long been discerned in the inadequacies of your judicial structure and judicial procedure " . |
| 16 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 17 | Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence . |
| 18 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 19 | It is now difficult to imagine it wending its way towards the City through open fields , the river itself , like so many of its mills , having long been engulfed by the suburbs . |
| 20 | The observations reported below are based on the results of his studies . |
| 21 | Most of the questions selected below are taken from the examinations of bodies other than the Institute of Marketing . |
| 22 | We have all been invited to the festivities at his palace of Fontainebleau . ’ |
| 23 | Programmers in the second tournament had all been provided with the results of the first , including Axelrod 's analysis of why Tit for Tat and other nice and forgiving strategies had done so well . |
| 24 | Is there any truth to the rumour that the members have all been banned from the roads for speeding . |
| 25 | It was clearly old , and several additions had obviously been made over the years , although they all blended together easily and harmoniously . |
| 26 | At the heart of it is the Church understanding of Revelation , which has constantly been reiterated in the writings of Pope John Paul II . |
| 27 | You 'd better be prepared for the hauntings , because hauntings is what you 'll bloody well get . |
| 28 | Their potential has already been recognised and exploited in other fields — schools will not so much be moving with the times as running to catch up . |
| 29 | Although the numbers will not apparently be limited at the briefings , a notional limit may be set on the number of climbers admitted to the range on any one occasion . |
| 30 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |