Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |
| 2 | In Litster , even though the sale was by a receiver , it was clear that the employees had been dismissed immediately prior to completing the sale of a business solely to avoid the effect of the Transfer Regulations on the sale . |
| 3 | The economic history of Byzantium has in the past been examined too much in isolation from the general course of medieval economic history . |
| 4 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 5 | At the USAF base virtually all buildings were razed to the ground , though seventy of the 72 F-16s stationed there had been flown out prior to the hurricane striking . |
| 6 | These are proving particularly popular with younger disabled people , and a special hoist is available to lift people from wheelchair into boat if needed . |
| 7 | This information suggests Clios are proving particularly popular with women and professional people . |
| 8 | OATS ' two LOFT ( Line Orientated Flight Training ) simulators are proving increasingly popular with airlines . |
| 9 | Even though they may only flower once a century , these plants are proving increasingly popular with gardeners and landscapers throughout Europe . |
| 10 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 11 | Such technology , coupled to advances such as ‘ embryo sexing ’ and ‘ embryo splitting ’ which are proving so useful in cattle breeding could bring livestock prices down and encourage the adoption of these majestic mammals . |
| 12 | . with a little help from her new friends who are proving very protective towards the brave youngster . |
| 13 | Panchromatic and false-colour infrared images , registered to the British National Grid , are proving very effective for the interpretation of both regional structures and geomorphology ( see frontispiece ) . |
| 14 | Two examples are given overleaf Each of these can be calculated by several methods , one of which is by division . |
| 15 | Future generations are likely to deplore the way current societies are allowing so much of their heritage to be destroyed without record . |
| 16 | Note that the 4013 chip contains two separate D-type bistables but here we are using only one of them . |
| 17 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 18 | No drug has been proven globally effective in IBS . |
| 19 | For a file of this size , no value has been altered materially due to the simplification of using Poisson values . |
| 20 | I think that crowd behaviour has improved , the clubs are catering much better for families . |
| 21 | The foods which are consumed very much in the way they were grown — many of the fibre-rich foods — are rarely potentially fattening . |
| 22 | She claims she would not have needed the operation if she had not been given too much of a drug to hasten the delivery . |
| 23 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 24 | Faced with this level of uncertainty , the response of employers within the sector has been to invest as much of their profits as possible in land or housing , if possible in their home area or within the city , if tenure is reasonably secure . |
| 25 | ‘ One of the things you learn in an exercise like that is that the odds are stacked very much against the aggressor . |
| 26 | The fact that we are situated right next to the park does not escape our notice and we have in fact had people in from the park who sleep rough there . |
| 27 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 28 | ‘ Ant sin one like that in years , ’ he breathed , ‘ talk is , the bloody Danes are catching too many of 'em as babees . ’ |
| 29 | I know Harrods have a good selection and now McCormicks are bringing out many of the American seasonings in their range of spices . |
| 30 | In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR . |