Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray Holmes , the BDA 's present Vice-Chairman took his place , and has since been elected Vice-President of an the World Federation . |
| 2 | It was bordered by Rat Lane which has since been renamed Norway Lane after Neville Shute Norway , the famous author and aircraft engineer who founded the Airspeed Company here . |
| 3 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 4 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 5 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 7 | The Science Citation Index also indicates that the outside world has not been developing ideas form German scientists : 2 per cent of citations in 1975 were for German papers compared with 4 per cent for the UK and 3 per cent from Japan . |
| 8 | This is the first time the ABRC 's report has not been made public in recent years . |
| 9 | The effect of trading on the basis of information which has not been made public is to distort the market in the shares to which the information relates . |
| 10 | It claims to have its own solution , although this has not been made public . |
| 11 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 12 | At some stage a funding body has assessed the potential worth of a project , and research grants have been made available for it , but the lack of incentive to publish , or the difficulties encountered in preparing work for publication , have resulted in the fact that two-fifths of the work has not been made use of by the scientific community , except possibly through consultations of the original theses , ( which will be discussed in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | At some stage a funding body has assessed the potential worth of a project , and research grants have been made available for it , but the lack of incentive to publish , or the difficulties encountered in preparing work for publication , have resulted in the fact that two-fifths of the work has not been made use of by the scientific community , except possibly through consultations of the original theses , ( which will be discussed in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 14 | Lucker has not been taking corners well . |
| 15 | He has just been appointed head of the private office of Jean Glavany , France 's Secretary of State for Technical Education . |
| 16 | But as one door closes , another opens — and the former Larne defender has just been appointed manager of Smithwick 's Amateur League Premier side Drumaness Mills . |
| 17 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 18 | In fact , Coetzee has just been granted immunity to return to South Africa for three weeks : he will give evidence in support of the Mxenge family 's case against the Minister of Law and Order , which begins on April 15 . |
| 19 | Shaun Hill , of Gidleigh Park country house hotel in Devon , has just been named Egon Ronay Chef of the Year , while Gary Rhodes of The Greenhouse in London won The Times ' Restaurant of the Year 1991 award . |
| 20 | For the owner has just been fined £32,000 by a court for breaking health regulations . |
| 21 | The England international 's wonder strike against Pescara earlier this month has just been voted goal of the season so far by top TV station RAI and earned him £9,000 , which he has donated to a charity helping Brazilian schoolchildren . |
| 22 | However as has already been seen Tolkien was careful to voice rebuttals of Manichaeanism and assertions of the nonentity of evil many times throughout . |
| 23 | Now we know why the eight-year-old cross Lhasa Apso , of Edinburgh Road , Wallasey , has already been crowned Britain 's most talented dog by a national canine organisation . |
| 24 | Some restoration has already been done students at the Rome Istituto del Restauro worked on the contents of the boxes in the years 1954 to 1960 . |
| 25 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 26 | Fisher , 17 , has already been paid £50,000 for the film rights to her story . |
| 27 | Along with learning to scuba dive , swim with dolphins , become an astronaut or climb Everest , one of my ambitions has always been to take time out to become really familiar with the business end of a recording studio . |
| 28 | In fact the goal has always been to make newcomers adopt both the language and the values of the white , Anglo majority . |
| 29 | The essence of Sunday trading legislation has always been to protect shop workers , who traditionally have always been abused . |
| 30 | A main preoccupation of the laws of war has always been placing limits on the scope and ferocity of war : hence the large number of rules restricting the use of indiscriminate weapons ; and protecting neutrals , civilians and prisoners of war . |