Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One patient was treated with a drug not normally used for the condition after it had successfully been tested on her blood . |
| 2 | The process of creating the record is valuable in its own right ; it brings respect for the contribution of the parent to the learning environment and can provide a level of involvement by the parent which has rarely been seen in our schools . |
| 3 | Commanding Generals rarely are known for their sense humility . |
| 4 | The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated . |
| 5 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 6 | Accordingly the defendant had effectively been deprived of his right to have the breath specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) and , as in Anderton v. Lythgoe , the breath specimen had been inadmissible . |
| 7 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |
| 8 | Within hours of the IDF departure Hezbollah militiamen returned to the villages , reportedly accompanied by members of what had hitherto been seen as their main rival within the Lebanese Shia population , the Syrian-backed Amal militia . |
| 9 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 10 | A wanderer , an iconoclast , whose mind had only been matched by his eccentricity . |
| 11 | Mrs Lydan has only been left with her memories since her husband died . |
| 12 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 13 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 14 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 15 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 16 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 17 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 18 | These writs were not new and by Edward 's reign the church had long been fighting against their use in such matters as tithes and debts , testaments and matrimony . |
| 19 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 20 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 21 | Singapore has long been known for its campaigns against littering , smoking , spitting and jay-walking , but it may be the only place in the world trying to toilet train an entire nation . |
| 22 | By the 1960s the mass of Venus had long been known from its gravitational effect on the orbit of the Earth and of Mercury . |
| 23 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 24 | But you never know , it may be tat all at once you recognise something of yourself that has long been buried in your subconscious . |
| 25 | The present Type 22s , such as HMS Broadsword and Brilliant , which shot down several Argentinian aircraft with Seawolf missiles , have long been criticised for their puny armament . |
| 26 | And what would you do if someone were to break down those pillars , Shae — scream and protest and say it had all been done against your will ? ’ |
| 27 | The irony was , thought Curtis bitterly , it had all been done in His name . |
| 28 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ The messages have all been placed in his pending file , Ms Penumbra . |
| 30 | They have all been chosen for their comfort , good food and fine wines . |