Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official projections of the spread of Aids have mercifully been revised downwards , but around 50,000 are believed to be infected in Britain , and the disease is pandemic in parts of Africa . |
| 2 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |
| 3 | The main contract is progressing well , following the successful if frantic mobilisation period , which reflects great credit on those involved , particularly Jan van Smirran who has since been transferred too Singapore to manage this and other contracts . |
| 4 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 5 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 6 | In 1983 , the Turkish Cypriots declared their own republic , which has since been recognised only by Turkey . |
| 7 | He has proved himself as a coach , and any doubts harboured at Anfield about his judgement have long since been swept away . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 9 | Here it would be tempting to assume , whether modestly or angrily , that there is another group of readers — the sophisticated , the expert , the professional , for whom such problems simply do n't exist , or have long since been left behind . |
| 10 | And the telephone calls , the forty five ninety two , they have n't effectively been paid yet , but they are included in the result presumably this has n't er been finally settled as regards the cash but this is the result . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 13 | They illuminated the structure of chemical compounds , which had hitherto been seen simply in quantitative terms ( i.e. the number of atoms in a molecule ) . |
| 14 | This is Cnut the caring Christian king and diplomat , vowing to amend what has hitherto been done amiss through negligence or the intemperance of youth , and stressing the generosity of his reception by the emperor to enhance his own prestige . |
| 15 | It is therefore perhaps necessary to pause here to reaffirm some of the intentions of the movement which have hitherto been suggested only in passing . |
| 16 | But Folly found it all rather overwhelming , as if she had suddenly been spirited away by a magic carpet and found herself in some Sultan 's harem . |
| 17 | He reviewed the changes made during his period as Soviet leader saying that " a totalitarian system which deprived the country of an opportunity to become wealthy and prosperous a long time ago has been liquidated " , and he expressed his hopes for the future : " Some mistakes could probably have been avoided , much been done better , but I am sure that sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results . " |
| 18 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 19 | Mr before we can ask for a seconder on it I 'd ask the clerk to make a de definition about expenditure that has not necessarily been costed beforehand . |
| 20 | This did not imply , however , that they had necessarily been approved either by the European Parliament or by the various national parliaments and the Commission complained that Italy had implemented fewer than half of them . |
| 21 | Mr Sinclair said the gun had only been fired once , but two entry wounds had been made in Mr Jowett 's back because the the bullet had parted with its jacket . |
| 22 | The east-west road has only been examined once since the 1920s , during excavations on the west gate , where it evidently comprised three separate surfaces ; the latest ( road III ) can probably be identified with Jack and Hayter 's later roadway ; the middle one ( II ) was contemporary with the mid fourth-century gate and may be a localized resurfacing ; while the lowest ( I ) must represent the east-west route in the preceding centuries . |
| 23 | Until this weekend mother and children had only been kept apart by official engagements . |
| 24 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 25 | ‘ Most of the clothes we have here have only been worn once or twice . |
| 26 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 27 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 28 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 29 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 30 | Pompey have only been beaten once at home this season that was by West Ham … |