Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
| 2 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 3 | ‘ Something small , which might have been hidden almost anywhere . |
| 4 | Too much had been hidden too long . |
| 5 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
| 6 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |
| 7 | The peasant grass-roots culture that has been examined briefly here was too local in scope , too illiterate , to line up strongly with the intelligentsia . |
| 8 | Variables which have been examined particularly frequently by sociolinguists are social class , age , sex and ethnicity . |
| 9 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
| 10 | These facilities make VSAM more similar to database software than most of the file organization techniques that have been examined so far — in fact , many of the database systems available for mini- and micro-computers provide only this multiple index facility . |
| 11 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
| 12 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 13 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 14 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
| 15 | They are gathered even now . |
| 16 | Now , unless I am mistaken , those partisans of anti-cruelty or pro-welfare who are gathered here also accept these same aspirations . |
| 17 | As sober as judges and as reverent as pilgrims , we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of disco and rock , the funeral of Sinead O'Connor , the birth of cool . |
| 18 | Finland had been annexed only recently , and the impoverishment of the Baltic peasantry which resulted from their emancipation under Alexander I could have given rise to extensive social unrest . |
| 19 | These are the sorts of remarks that are heard quite often , signalling the presence of a basic tension of teaching and learning . |
| 20 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 21 | Social attitudes , influenced by widespread publicity campaigns , are hardening against the drinking driver ; and demands for tougher sentencing policies , or for new legislation on random breath tests , are heard more frequently . |
| 22 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 23 | Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically . |
| 24 | They are placed here mainly for your enjoyment and for subsequent discussion with friends and teachers . |
| 25 | Another difficulty is that new forms of co-operation must be established between individuals who have little knowledge about each other , who are placed temporarily under new managers , and who often feel closely attached to their functional departments . |
| 26 | The soloists are placed rather too close in relation to the rest , which does not help , and more seriously the central Andantino is too romantic in style . |
| 27 | The winds are placed admirably forward in the Overture , revealing an instrumental balance that anticipates some recent performances on period instruments . |
| 28 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 29 | The Corydons are placed further away , which lends their performance an intoxicating dream-like quality , which I find particularly apt . |
| 30 | That opportunity has been delayed too long . |