Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supervisory Authority and the state prosecutor 's office may institute proceedings before the ordinary courts of justice for a declaration that an insider dealing or a misleading prospectus and dealings made thereunder are null and void . |
| 2 | The doubles which are now being offered widely are indispensable and I would pick out the deep red ‘ Captain Blood ’ , the white edged purple ‘ Marie Crousse ’ and ‘ Our Pat ’ in bluish-violet as the best growers . |
| 3 | Standing up for pensioners has rarely been popular except among pensioners . |
| 4 | Those who pause rarely are thoughtless and unintelligent . |
| 5 | As Prime Minister he had mostly been popular and happy , although bearing heavily even the limited press of public work which his economy of effort prescribed . |
| 6 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 7 | And why had Vic suddenly been helpful when Mungo grew confused ? |
| 8 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 9 | Many of the new innovations have only been possible because of the company 's commitment to total quality management ( TQM ) . |
| 10 | That has only been possible because of the combined effort by the whole BNFL team , led so effectively by our outstanding Chief Executive , Neville Chamberlain . |
| 11 | It is true that this ‘ agreement ’ , or settlement as I would prefer to call it , had only been viable when lesbians and gays tolerated their own oppression , tolerated homophobic behaviour , tolerated heterosexist indoctrination , tolerated liberal tolerance . |
| 12 | Similar powers in the Housing Act of 1890 had only been permissive and so far only a few councils ( notably London ) had been active house builders ; indeed some , including Birmingham , had regarded the proposition as a matter of last resort . |
| 13 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 14 | Or had she only been cold because she 'd known of her husband 's friendship with a beautiful young Irish girl ? |
| 15 | Users ' freedom to browse in a library collection has not only been desirable but would also appear to be linked with the right of access to information itself . |
| 16 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 17 | On those occasions when dependence on the providence of some undefined ‘ god ’ has apparently been effective and some relief from troubles apparently obtained , it could have been shown that the relief came , in reality , from a human source . |
| 18 | The June 27 breakthrough on tank numbers had been anticipated on June 14 , when the Polish-French proposal was recorded at a CFE plenary session without Soviet disagreement , but had then apparently been frustrated when the Soviet representative raised technical objections at a working group meeting later in the day . |
| 19 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 20 | This silence had long been intolerable when Jim broke it , saying to Jake Endo , ‘ Uh , how did ‘ Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree , Which Stands Near the Lake of Easthwaite , on a Desolate Part of the Shore , Commanding a Beautiful Prospect ’ do ? ’ |
| 21 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 22 | POLITICS in Colombia has long been violent but boring . |
| 23 | Fairley had long been violent and sexually aggressive . |
| 24 | Roycroft also claims — and many in the health authority agree with him — that relationships between the social services department and the health authority , both managerially and professionally , have long been good and have helped underpin a high level of community care . |
| 25 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 26 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 27 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 28 | Clinicians , however , have long been aware that the opposite can also be found : an excessive tendency to divergent thinking — though they have usually called it something else — which the person has difficulty in translating into focused thought . |
| 29 | Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media . |
| 30 | A number of contingencies discussed below are illustrative and not exhaustive . |