Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , if you are delayed more than 12 hours and you have chosen to take the recommended Holiday Insurance Policy that Club 18–20 has arranged with Eagle Star , you have the right to cancel and receive a refund , or , at your preference , continue on your holiday and receive compensation of up to £65 per person . |
| 2 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 3 | Health officials in Gateshead are contacting more than seven hundred women after discovering that the doctor who carried out cervical smear tests on them had not used the correct procedure . |
| 4 | First , and most important , stick with fonts that were designed for the printer you are using even if this means giving up some of the typographic niceties . |
| 5 | If you are using more than two colours , you will need to mark the rows yourself . |
| 6 | Every year the world 's industries have been producing more than one million tonnes of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) and halons for use as refrigerator coolants , in the manufacture of foams , aerosol can propellants , solvents and fire extinguishers . |
| 7 | Since the justification of the binding force of authoritative directives rests on dependent reasons , the reasons on which they depend are ( to the extent that the directives are regarded simply as authoritative ) replaced rather than added to by those directives . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope these people are consulted fully when this application goes through , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The victims had been knifed more than 70 times . |
| 11 | Whether St Kilda has been occupied continuously since early times is open to conjecture , but the earliest comprehensive account of the islands and their people was written by Martin Martin in 1697 . |
| 12 | It arrived at that by concluding that almost half the trees are felled more than five years before , or after , their age of theoretical maximum return . |
| 13 | With ‘ soft knee ’ the compression ratio increases progressively , so that signals exceeding the threshold by a small amount are compressed less than those exceeding it by a larger margin . |
| 14 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 15 | If new records are added faster than old records are deleted , the packing of the file will get higher ; as we saw earlier in the chapter , this will cause more synonyms . |
| 16 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 17 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 18 | An Oxfordshire construction company has been fined more than one and a half thousand pounds for polluting the River Wray . |
| 19 | The golfer , Ian Woosnam , has been fined more than two thousand pounds and banned from driving after he was found to be twice over the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his car worth eighty thousand pounds . |
| 20 | Many are driving more than 500 miles for tomorrow night 's event . |
| 21 | With diesels we are averaging more than 20 mpg . ’ |
| 22 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 23 | Since then , the homoeopathic materia medica has been expanded considerably as more and more remedies are proved . |
| 24 | Appointees to established posts such as this one , who are living more than 20 miles from Oxford , will be eligible for relocation allowances . |
| 25 | You 've been living here as long as I have , she thought . |
| 26 | In the absence of Tambo and Mandela , Alfred Nzo , the secretary-general , had up until now been serving also as acting president . |
| 27 | Because strong focusing preferences are applied only when appropriate , there is no need even to check that the dog biting the vet is a plausible event , since on linguistic grounds , no other possibilities exist . |
| 28 | In recent years the H.T. has been grown more than any other , both as bush and standard , and such is the sublime beauty of the opening bud that H.T.s invariably take all the prizes at the shows . |
| 29 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 30 | ‘ Who else , unless you 're favouring more than two of us ? ’ he taunted insultingly , his mirthless smile stabbing at her . |