Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 2 | Was was any attempt made by the the experienced men the one who the ones who understood the rock and been in the presumably been in the industry |
| 3 | The situation in the Gulf may now dwarf the Palestinian issue , but no Middle East crisis can be seen in isolation ; a thousand days of protest has assured the plight of Palestinians has rarely been off the world agenda . |
| 4 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 5 | I 'd agree — While it 's great to see 2 away wins up , we have n't beaten any of the ‘ classy ’ teams yet … our wins have mostly been over the lower teams … which brings us to Wimbledon this week . |
| 6 | If guests have no credit cards they are usually asked to prepay for their stay at the hotel and all incidentals in bars and restaurants etc. are on a cash basis . |
| 7 | Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time . |
| 8 | The overwhelming blackness , the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning ; I 've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity . |
| 9 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 10 | Most amateur gardeners are ‘ afraid of the knife ’ and do not prune hard enough , leaving too much old wood , with the result that the growth buds that grow on are at the top end of 3 or 4 or more inches ( 8 or 10 or more cm ) of the previous season 's growth . |
| 11 | Why not with Dr Primo Nebiolo , president of the IAAF , who never ceases to eulogise about the greatness of the sport while around him , those attuned to what is really going on are in no doubt that cheating remains rife . |
| 12 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 13 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 14 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 15 | Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while . |
| 16 | I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know . |
| 17 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 18 | He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip . |
| 19 | Well we 've only been to the dentist here . |
| 20 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 21 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 22 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 23 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 24 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 25 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 26 | Once seated , Denice tells us she 's only been on a blind date once before , and that was years ago . |
| 27 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 28 | True , he had only been on the periphery , a bit-part player who could usefully be dragooned into secondary roles when a little muscle was required . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before . |
| 30 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |