Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 2 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 3 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 4 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 5 | ‘ I am sad we have not been afforded the same welcome given to the Beirut hostages , ’ he told a deeply moved audience at the AGM last month . |
| 6 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 8 | In that case the court found that the auditors ' certificate was based on a mistaken interpretation of the agreement between the partners : this would probably not be decided the same way today : see 13.6 , 13.7 and 13.9 . |
| 9 | For example , it has been pointed out that one person can not be asked the same question twice , the second time he is not the same person because he has already been asked the question once . |
| 10 | Louis Kossuth ( 1802–94 ) , the Magyar leader , combined , in Seton-Watson 's words , ‘ unrealistic benevolence and national intolerance ’ : since the non-Hungarians possessed a culture inferior to the Hungarian , they could not be accorded the same privileges as the Magyars ; however , they should be encouraged to become Hungarian as swiftly as possible . |
| 11 | Parties and celebrations would not be considered the same without it . |
| 12 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 13 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 14 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 15 | In a truly decentralised system , subsidiary organisations could reasonably be given a few well-defined priorities to which assessments of corporate and individual performance would be related . |
| 16 | What this case clearly shows is that one has to be very careful in assuming that in restraint of trade cases a phrase ascribed a meaning in one case will also be ascribed the same meaning in another . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , " theft " would probably be given the same meaning that word bears in the Theft Act 1968 ; if the drafter intends some other meaning , he/she should define the relevant word for the purposes of the contract . |
| 18 | I think the Germans are probably being told the same about us , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 19 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 20 | These diseases could at least be given the same priority as other diseases . |
| 21 | If the Cytherean greenhouse effect were ‘ switched off ’ but everything else were left the same the average surface temperature would fall from 730 K to 230 K. For the Earth , the corresponding temperatures are 288 K and 253 K. Thus , though Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth its surface temperature would actually fall below that of the Earth . |
| 22 | The Goodies have — unfairly — never been afforded the same mystique . |
| 23 | In the area in which we are interested , there was a ‘ Sutton Garage ’ and a ‘ Sutton Depôt ’ , the latter actually being located a few yards across the boundary into Carshalton . |