Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
| 2 | However , I understand it has since been resold to yet another private company , who appear to have resold the lease to the Estates who in turn sold the farmland to local landowners but rented the house to the company , presumably for a much reduced sum . |
| 3 | But the scenes of violent aggression have since been mitigated by equally extraordinary examples of altruism , in which older chimps have ‘ adopted ’ orphans too young to care for themselves . |
| 4 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 5 | The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him . |
| 6 | Those fighter pilots were praised by Churchill , when he made his famous announcement that ‘ Never in the history of human conflict had so much been owed to so few by so many ’ . |
| 7 | Money-Go-Round : Never has so much been owed by so many |
| 8 | The variation in content was enormous , although for the purposes of this analysis the course topics have necessarily been grouped into rather broad categories . |
| 9 | This assessment has only been enhanced since then by the spectacular achievements of experimental science . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm well aware of whom they 're for , ’ he bit out , and Ellie belatedly became rather frighteningly aware of the dangerous quality in him that had only been hinted at before . |
| 11 | Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years . |
| 12 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
| 13 | ‘ Poor old England , too , had long been corroding from within . |
| 14 | Many villages , especially in Persia , which have long been associated with highly sophisticated work , have either ceased weaving altogether or produce so few examples that they now have only an historic relevance to the contemporary scene . |
| 15 | Her wardrobes of course , were bulging with dresses but , apart from the evening gowns she had had made especially for Christmas , they had all been worn at least once before . |
| 16 | They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah . |
| 17 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 18 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 19 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 20 | ‘ I say to any pensioner in this hall or watching on the television , you have personally been robbed of over £2,000 . |
| 21 | However , in such studies , pipe and cigar smokers were usually defined as those who had never smoked cigarettes : these primary smokers tend not to inhale and so are exposed to relatively low amounts of tar and other harmful constituents of the tobacco smoke compared with cigarette smokers . |
| 22 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 23 | This should not be taken at face value ; our ‘ individuals ’ might better be thought of as neuter , reproducing themselves unaided . |
| 24 | At the worst he can merely be accused of unwittingly acting out a fantasy , but even if this were so , it was a fantasy with very real consequences . |
| 25 | Finally there is the complication that X-ray emissions can only be detected from above the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 26 | They would require relief so frequently that their unemployment could only be covered by unrealistically high contributions . |
| 27 | Broad agreement has to be reached , too , on how she will be able to fit in happily with your particular routine of family life , and this can only be decided after very frank discussion of her needs and yours . |
| 28 | At the other they were an opportunity , perhaps the only opportunity , of breaking with institutions and attitudes which had led to disaster ; an opportunity which had to be grasped because such radical change could only be imposed from outside . |
| 29 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 30 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |