Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 3 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 4 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 5 | By not addressing these issues school management would be failing to seize the opportunity of LMS and would merely be extending the previous resource practice into the new era . |
| 6 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 7 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 8 | We 're saying that by 1995 , all UK beaches will only be reaching the bare EC legal standard in order to avoid being prosecuted . |
| 9 | On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S-class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles . |
| 10 | The answer to the last of the three questions should perhaps be put the other way round . |
| 11 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 12 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 13 | ‘ Because he regarded you as a rival , both on the tracks and off , and by claiming paternity he was claiming he 'd made love to me first , before you , and so was claiming the superior position . ’ |
| 14 | Yet the large majority of our teenagers said they had not been taught the practical realities of avoiding AIDS until they were at least 15 . |
| 15 | In 1912 Eleanor Barton , a spokeswoman for the WCG ( albeit herself middle class ) , voiced the opinion that ‘ women suffer a great deal through their husbands ’ sensuality , and that is more evident amongst working people than other classes , simply because the conditions of life lend themselves to that sort of thing , and they have not been taught the proper uses of their bodies ' . |
| 16 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 17 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 18 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 19 | In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others . |
| 20 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |
| 21 | Meditation on the spiritual life brings forth the peak experience in which the whole organism approaches release — therein are found the supreme joys of the spirit . |
| 22 | ( A controversial Public Order Ordinance , controlling public meetings and demonstrations , had , however , already been withdrawn the previous month from the list of protected legislation . ) |
| 23 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 24 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 25 | This criticism is forcefully made by Connolly , in the course of a discussion of structuralist theories , of which he takes Althusser s to be a prime example : One of the two complaints aired in this passage has already been discussed the incredulous observation that we can not view people as role-bearers who lead complicated lives in modern industrial societies and simultaneously regard them as determined . |
| 26 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 27 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 28 | Rupert Bear is not only the world 's tallest hot air balloon and a leading children 's favourite since 1920 , he has just been appointed the National Trust 's young ‘ green ’ spokesman , or should one say spokesbear . |
| 29 | And the unique project has just been given the Royal seal of approval . |
| 30 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |