Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 2 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 3 | The same is true of Russian and French , where reflexive structures are relied on much more heavily to fulfil similar functions . |
| 4 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 5 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 6 | He 's been resting in here ever since . |
| 7 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 8 | Innovations in the curriculum included vocal music and Natural Science ( though lectures on Geology , Chemistry , and Zoology had been arranged since as early as 1871 ) . |
| 9 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 10 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 11 | The door was a scuffed and peeling blue which had probably been painted at least once since the house was built , maybe to celebrate the toilet coming indoors . |
| 12 | These notes of notes we are calling , in the vulgar tongue , swot cards ; they are referred to more particularly in chapter 7 . |
| 13 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 14 | Of the 307 theses in data set C , 230 ( 75% ) have been consulted at least once . |
| 15 | Some of the practices that do not comply with the 1990 contract targets are situated in demographically less attractive parts of the cities . |
| 16 | He thought again about how the changes which had occurred in the Southern Capital , to which Surere had now been exposed after so long away , might have affected such an inflexible heart . |
| 17 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 18 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 19 | The cumulative impact of these three determinants of redundancy payments is that women are discriminated against both directly and indirectly by the legislation . |
| 20 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 21 | The annual Livewire competition is open to 16 to 25 year olds who have been trading for less then a year . |
| 22 | This place has been occupied by just about everyone you could name over the centuries . |
| 23 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 24 | The old-fashioned , rather genteel , image of nursing employment agencies has been superseded by much more streamlined , commercially aware organisations run with a mixture of personnel expertise and crisis management . |
| 25 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 26 | If the letters of offer and acceptance are looked at alone then it is clear that the university was entitled to terminate the appointment on three months ' notice . |
| 27 | Time savings appear only if the best plays are looked at early on in the game . |
| 28 | These bonds are trading at well below 70% of their issue prices . |
| 29 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
| 30 | We have , as the novel suggests , been immersed for too long in a predominantly oral culture for it not to have permanently altered our minds . |