Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions which give rise to debate are rarely those which later have to be decided by the courts . |
| 2 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |
| 3 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |
| 4 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 5 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 6 | One of the advantages of our business is that the opportunities to progress are remarkably many and varied — there is no one set path which you have to adhere to . |
| 7 | But perhaps the most striking result to emerge is how little sexual behaviour is influenced by the risk either of unwanted pregnancy or the danger of contracting AIDS . |
| 8 | Examples of this kind could readily be multiplied , but it does not follow that the different methods espoused are really all that different in their fundamental orientations . |
| 9 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 10 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 11 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 12 | Charles and Ann had been out several times together , there had been no aggression , and they were being more affectionate . |
| 13 | Sue 's been there all bloody day . |
| 14 | David 's been away all week ? |
| 15 | At the trial , the case presented is essentially that prepared by the police . |
| 16 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 17 | The kind of supervision suggested by the college could be achieved by guardianship ; yet guardianship under the Act has been very little used . |
| 18 | The issue has been very much on the minds of some of the current councillors after the South Eastern Education and Library Board decided to place Lisburn above Bangor in the priority list for new library premises . |
| 19 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 20 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 21 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 22 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 23 | Per ton of steel , such assistance has been substantially less than that supplied by many European governments ( often to subsidize the losses of uncompetitive plants ) ' |
| 24 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 25 | All the weight has to be used to make the tail dig in , so the posture needed is exactly that of a very bad carve gybe , ie straight front leg , leaning back and pulling the rig towards you . |
| 26 | The capacity for learning , the need for tuition and the mental ability of the parents to care are thus all automatically manifested in synchrony . |
| 27 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 28 | The first question to ask is how much time does it want to spend on music overall ? |
| 29 | The skinhead retreat into white ethnicity — for that 's what the flag waving is really all about — is , simply , the Last Resort . |
| 30 | But the question had been there all the time . |