Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Clearly one source is unreliable , and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased .
2 Nearly all the walls and woodwork in the house are washed with colour — a technique which produces are more gentle effect than straight painting .
3 The alien traits that this role imposes are most vivid at this point in the day .
4 But it is also that the worlds which Burrows evokes are very intimate and very enclosed .
5 Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place .
6 I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ .
7 Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays .
8 I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics .
9 For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories .
10 Meanwhile , as Layard and Nickell ( 1989 ) have shown , Britain 's recent record on education and training has been notably inadequate .
11 These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed .
12 There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims .
13 To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful .
14 Blues , of course , has been widely influential , indeed formative , on the development of rock .
15 This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago .
16 The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops .
17 OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House .
18 Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men .
19 Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great .
20 But we ca n't wait to come back over , because the response we 've had over here has been just overwhelming .
21 It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile .
22 Negotiation has been well worth-while , he has found , particularly since many of the food company 's plants have a higher demand in the off-peak summer period than in the winter .
23 If anything , the ignominy heaped on Johnson second time around — not to mention the embarrassment caused to athletics — has been even greater than in Seoul .
24 This seems to be the maxim of those who use the library and information service which has been even busier in the last session .
25 The performance of the AGR series has been even worse .
26 Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) .
27 11 , everything happening in the present case has been no more than one stage in a continuing contest between the prosecutor and the applicant in a matter which from the outset has been exclusively criminal in nature .
28 Your life has been incredibly successful , and you 've got out of it exactly what you wanted for your highest good .
29 There has been wide public interest in international comparisons of schooling in recent years .
30 Sexual experiment , now or in earlier life , is and has been markedly less than with younger people .
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