Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 3 | He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain . |
| 4 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 5 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 6 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 7 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 8 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 9 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 10 | The form of protection requiring intermediate level , in-rack sprinklers quoted in paragraph ( 3 ) above have so far only been tested full scale , to stack heights of 15 metres . |
| 11 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 12 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 13 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 14 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 15 | Departments have all been given tight target figures which some feel will be hard to meet . |
| 16 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 17 | But at this moment some six hundred land girls in Sussex alone are attacking this job against all the ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 19 | Their chief responsibility would henceforth be to protect national sovereignty and defend the country from external danger , while responsibility for internal security would pass to a new National Civilian Police ( PNC ) . |
| 20 | These possibilities exist because some of the meanings which human beings find in experience depend on symbols and can only be given symbolic expression . |
| 21 | There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused . |
| 22 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 23 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 24 | Maybe in the future , like the Chinese , we will only be allowed one child . |
| 25 | It had to be a success — she knew she would only be allowed one failure . |
| 26 | It is believed that a significant number of these are repeat prescriptions , although it is now clear that these powerful drugs should only be used short term . |
| 27 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |
| 28 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 29 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 30 | Many of Mozart 's smaller-scale pieces , particularly the dances , were much in demand ( ironically enough ) by 1791 , and 48 dances alone were published that year . |