Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What now became clear was that Cadwallon was prepared to tolerate neither the family of Eadwine nor that of Aethelfrith as rulers of the northern Angles . |
| 2 | I know the first lot of bits I got in were all employment officers |
| 3 | Who goes down is another matter . |
| 4 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 5 | There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain . |
| 6 | There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian ! |
| 7 | This has all been good training for his new post . |
| 8 | That has all been great fun . |
| 9 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 10 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 11 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 12 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 13 | It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . " |
| 14 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 15 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 16 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |
| 17 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 18 | During the same period , there has not been one prosecution for corruption , although it is no secret that the economy is dominated by powerful politicians with access to cheap state funds , import licences and influence . |
| 19 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 20 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 21 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 22 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 23 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 24 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 25 | In this generation there has not been any doubt about his identity . |
| 26 | There has not been any demonstration of a necessary correlation between the incidence of claims to objectivity and the development of literacy . |
| 27 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 28 | Since the proposal was published in November 1990 , there has not been sufficient time to assess the reactions of the earth science departments funded by NERC to it . |
| 29 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |
| 30 | Trish 's own career has not been plain sailing . |