Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 2 | No British government in the past forty years and more has been elected with even a bare majority of the votes cast . |
| 3 | Now for 1993 , the job has been completed with more serious surgery to improve handling and performance and in the case of the convertible model doubling seating capacity . |
| 4 | Once a major effort has been completed against either a warren or a burrow system it can be expected that the area has been fairly well cleared . |
| 5 | The one case in which the legality of nuclear weapons use has been pronounced upon directly is the Shimoda Case in Japan , in which judgment was given on 7 December 1963 . |
| 6 | After all , the poverty of older people has been recognised by both official and independent research for over 100 years . |
| 7 | This property has been built with properly sloping roofs and mountain architecture . |
| 8 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 9 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 10 | Once a unit has been written towards clearly defined aims ( or ‘ intentions ’ in philosopher 's language ) it can be used to promote thought about the relationship between these aims and the behaviour that results in practice . |
| 11 | The booklet has been written for permanently appointed people in the ES but people on temporary appointments will find much of it also applies to them . |
| 12 | Much has been written on how to keep a team of consultants in a service sector together . |
| 13 | The landscape which generation after generation created is like a classroom blackboard at the end of a day , on which each lesson has been written without entirely erasing the previous one . |
| 14 | And finally , when some day Mr Seewonauth sees a new MG roadster which is a decapitated Honda Civic , will he finally realise that something wonderful has been lost for ever ? |
| 15 | Now that we have moved into what is essentially a total deregulation mode , I think that the opportunity has been lost for ever . |
| 16 | This Sumerian burial in northern Iraq has been dated to about 2000 BC . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 18 | In a prehistoric population in North America the time when marked tooth decay ( dental caries ) set in has been pinpointed to around 1150 AD . |
| 19 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |
| 20 | A much fuller theory has been developed of how motions of this type can be generated through the action of the mean shear on initially isotropic fluctuations , but the details are not apparent without the mathematical analysis . |
| 21 | Arafat , determined to rally Palestinians behind the deal , began the round of meetings on Thursday and has been struggling since then to overcome opposition of at least four of the 12 members attending , Palestinian sources said . |
| 22 | Although the rate of growth has fallen since the oil crises of the 1970s , Japan 's productivity advantage has been magnified by very low rates of increase in unit labour costs . |
| 23 | Since last autumn , the British government has been lobbied by increasingly frantic waste-paper merchants and plastics recyclers protesting that their markets are being destroyed by the backwash of German rubbish . |
| 24 | The government has been criticized for not making enough effort during the period of high copper prices to diversify Zambia 's economic base , and especially to encourage agricultural development . |
| 25 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 26 | ‘ Taken at face value individual companies would have us believe that their particular stance has been determined by purely altruistic considerations , such as meeting customer demand , protecting staff or defending religious principles . |
| 27 | The number of sets in the Seamer area has been cut to about 20 , a quarter of the total that existed in his youth , says the amiable grandfather . |
| 28 | Close comparison of BBC and ITN footage shows that the BBC film has in shot the man who was most severely beaten by the police , but that the film has been cut at precisely the point when the policeman begins to set about him with his truncheon . |
| 29 | This stem has been cut at too sharp an angle , and too close to the bud . |
| 30 | The fee has been cut by approximately half , from £20,000 to £10,000 . |