Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip . |
| 11 | Well we 've only been to the dentist here . |
| 12 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |
| 13 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 14 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 20 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 21 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 22 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 23 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 24 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 25 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 26 | The father had only been in the country six months and had no means of supporting his son . |
| 27 | The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ? |
| 28 | He 's American and only been in the country two weeks . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ . |
| 30 | This showed that he had not only been in the Catalina that had sighted the Bismarck but was actually piloting it and had taken avoiding action when the Bismarck opened fire . |