Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
| 2 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 3 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 4 | This happened rather often , and if the inhabitants of Oswaldston had not mostly been shut up in front of their televisions at this time of day , it might already have given rise to some talk . |
| 5 | Policing issues are never long out of the headlines ( Chibnall 1977 ) , and this media obsession has been transmitted into a wealth of analyses of policing — which have mostly been carried out by outside observers . |
| 6 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 7 | In Scotland the most obvious example of this — the Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) — is not strictly a local government but a regional organization , yet in many ways it has provided a model for initiatives which have since been developed elsewhere at local level . |
| 8 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 9 | In 1983 , the Turkish Cypriots declared their own republic , which has since been recognised only by Turkey . |
| 10 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 11 | As a result , half of the Saimaa Canal , which links the Gulf of Finland with Lake Saimaa ( Finland 's largest lake system ) , fell into Soviet hands and has since been cut off to yachts wishing to enter from the Baltic Sea . |
| 12 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 13 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 14 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 15 | Derek Casey , the Council 's director of national services , said : ‘ A six-man emergency committee has since been set up by the ABA and major changes and re-structuring , which we think are absolutely essential for the future of amateur boxing , are now being made . |
| 16 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 17 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 18 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 19 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 20 | The aid agencies working there decided not to publicise the report , which has since been backed up by an internal report by Robert Ash , a senior UNHCR official . |
| 21 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |
| 22 | EASING London 's increasing traffic congestion by means of road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson . |
| 23 | Easing London 's increasing traffic congestion by road pricing has effectively been ruled out by the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson who told the Commons transport committee that it would be impractical . |
| 24 | The first has effectively been ruled out by the odd admission by the federalists , and has been dealt with earlier . |
| 25 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 26 | They might be astonished to find , soon after , that those very same cartons and bottles and tins have perhaps been thrown out in people 's , in people 's . |
| 27 | A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth . |
| 28 | It seems likely that documents that have hitherto been limited largely to Board discussions will shortly be made more widely available to staff . |
| 29 | They illuminated the structure of chemical compounds , which had hitherto been seen simply in quantitative terms ( i.e. the number of atoms in a molecule ) . |
| 30 | This is Cnut the caring Christian king and diplomat , vowing to amend what has hitherto been done amiss through negligence or the intemperance of youth , and stressing the generosity of his reception by the emperor to enhance his own prestige . |