Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one .
2 There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader .
3 and since are a big potential one one ninety four I 've got down here .
4 On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition .
5 Far from being the concrete , it has always rather been the theoretical problem .
6 The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better .
7 perhaps been a little bit dismissive of it because
8 However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade .
9 There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat .
10 The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance .
11 Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it .
12 ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned .
13 The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain .
14 A report published in Le Monde on Sept. 19 noted that Egypt 's earnings from workers overseas had hitherto been the main source of foreign exchange receipts , amounting to over $2,000 million per year , of which $500 million came from workers in Kuwait alone .
15 Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism .
16 Illustrated opposite are the classic Salade Niçoise and a delicious dish of lambs ' kidneys , sautéed in butter and served with a sauce flavoured with Dijon mustard .
17 It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside .
18 Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again .
19 Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket .
20 In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too .
21 On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits .
22 It had only been a brief talk and nothing improper was intimated .
23 He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border .
24 But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems .
25 If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable .
26 He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years .
27 His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion .
28 His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion .
29 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
30 Their attempt to whip up opposition to him when news of Stony Stratford reached London had proved abortive and since then they had apparently been a spent force .
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