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 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 3 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 4 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 5 | Another company which has long been ploughing the higher resolution furrow is Printware . |
| 6 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 7 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 're saying that by 1995 , all UK beaches will only be reaching the bare EC legal standard in order to avoid being prosecuted . |
| 12 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think so , thank you , and of course I shall only be staying the one night , ’ she said very firmly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , it is inefficient from a user 's point of view to leave course assessment to suppliers ( who will not necessarily be assessing the same thing as users ) , and inappropriate to expect individual users to be able to evaluate courses within any framework other than their own needs . |
| 16 | The answer to the last of the three questions should perhaps be put the other way round . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | You were talking earlier about er applying the lessons learned here from the tornado programme to Eurofighter , surely the best way of doing so is to involve the same people , they 're in the same building . |
| 19 | Not only is walking the best , cheapest , all-round exercise available to everyone young and old , but it is ‘ green ’ , natural and organic . |
| 20 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ' . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 26 | Handicapped people were simply those who had not been given the right tool kit . |
| 27 | John Hill 's son says he 's not been given the full facts about what went wrong . |
| 28 | In small intestinal mucosa homogenates from patients who had not been treated the increased basal adenylate cyclase activity , reported also by others . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Myeloski knew that Duncan had not been told the whole truth . |