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 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Now that we have moved into what is essentially a total deregulation mode , I think that the opportunity has been lost for ever . |
15 | This Sumerian burial in northern Iraq has been dated to about 2000 BC . |
16 | Middlesbrough midfield player Andy Peake has been recalled to today 's team with Mark Proctor expected to be on the substitutes ' bench . |
17 | In a prehistoric population in North America the time when marked tooth decay ( dental caries ) set in has been pinpointed to around 1150 AD . |
18 | The rule allowing students only one resit per session has been developed for both academic and logistic reasons . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | This stem has been cut at too sharp an angle , and too close to the bud . |
26 | The fee has been cut by approximately half , from £20,000 to £10,000 . |
27 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
28 | Those who previously qualified for the former , therefore , have lost out substantially , as their sickness pay has been cut by almost 20 per cent . |
29 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
30 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |