Example sentences of "[verb] [be] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 2 | I thought it would 've been a bit better but I did enjoy it , I did enjoy it . |
| 3 | In the analysis of how schools transmit culture , there has been a swing away from the idea that schools were gender-neutral conveyors of ‘ objective ’ knowledge to the view that schools , through the way they structure knowledge , are almost complete reproducers of societal divisions — including sex role stereotypes . |
| 4 | Thank you Chairman and Town Clerk and Councillors for attending that meeting because this has been a problem here for so long that I think all of us would be delighted to see it resolved to the er satisfaction of the local residents . |
| 5 | There has been a village here for well over 1,000 years . |
| 6 | ABOVE : Kings Mill at Painswick : there has been a mill here since the 1400s . |
| 7 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 8 | I believe that Guinness Brewing Worldwide has been a company consistently noted for the excellence of both its people and its brands . |
| 9 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 10 | There has been a tradition too , evident in the lengthy confidential annexes containing the Cabinet discussion of Sir Winston Churchill 's highly personal diplomacy in seeking a meeting with the Russians in July 1954 , that when a resignation is threatened an unusually full record is created of the proceedings . |
| 11 | One of his ballets , La Sylphide , certainly has been a success all over the world . |
| 12 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
| 13 | In the last ten or fifteen years there has been a trend away from this geographical separation of the clinic , and there are now several purpose-built departments above ground designed as integral parts of new hospital complexes . |
| 14 | And every day of those five weeks has been a knife slowly twisting in a wound . |
| 15 | There has been a tendency generally , but particularly in the years since 1979 , to disregard what are seen as private troubles ( family poverty , poor marital relationships , isolation ) and to consider primarily public issues , e.g. dependency of lone parents on welfare benefits , reception of children into care because of homelessness or family breakdown and juvenile crime . |
| 16 | There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | There has been a lot lately in the Press and on TV about crime and violence and it is sad to see so much wrong being done by the very young of today . |
| 18 | Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt , insane and guilty of fraud . |
| 19 | I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined . |
| 20 | The publicity he 's had has been a lot more extensive over the years erm so I think he 's certainly more of a household name than myself . |
| 21 | YOUR VERY OWN MANAGER There has been a surge recently in the number of smaller fund management companies keen to take on private clients |
| 22 | There has been a move away from the use of children 's homes towards more developed foster care and some private sector provision . |
| 23 | Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production . |
| 24 | This has led to the claim that British merger policy has potentially represented a Charter for Conglomerates , although it should be noted that , as discussed in the next subsection , there has been a move away from diversification and conglomerates , especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1987 . |
| 25 | Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family . |
| 26 | One of the trends in military publishing over recent years has been a move away from the hardware itself towards its operational use and the personal experiences of the men in the front line . |
| 27 | There has been a move away from the narrow field of Production Engineering into the broader field of Operations Management … . |
| 28 | Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach . |
| 29 | In recent years , there has been a move away from open surgical techniques in biliary disease with an increasing use of therapeutic endoscopy for the extraction of bile duct stones and the stenting of biliary strictures . |
| 30 | However , there has been a move away from copy-protection because it is troublesome to customers who , not unreasonably , wish to take back-up copies of important programs . |