Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
| 2 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 3 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 4 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 5 | The smaller one day races , whilst not having the same cult status , are treated just as seriously with most races offering trophies and some even cash prizes . |
| 6 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 7 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |
| 8 | It seems that Julia 's irritated remarks have been heard once too often by Karen and Sarah , and some angry comments have recently been made . |
| 9 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 10 | Although the need for one organization of policy-making for curriculum and examinations had been recognized as long ago as the mid-1960s ( through the establishment of the Schools Council ) , it had been abandoned in the early 1980s in favour of centralized curriculum-making and a blanket acceptance that the assessment of individual pupils ' achievement would lead to greater improvements in the system than the development of logically connected public examinations and national qualifications . |
| 11 | All of these military adventures are crushed very very quickly , usually in a matter of days . |
| 12 | I doubt such a venture could have been undertaken so rapidly elsewhere . |
| 13 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 14 | Wholemeal bread and flour can be eaten instead , as these are broken down more slowly and do not release glucose all at once . |
| 15 | Diets started without preparation are broken all too easily . |
| 16 | This issue of Supporters News has been given over almost entirely to the campaign on the proposed ban on all tobacco advertising and promotion , put forward in a draft European Community Directive in May . |
| 17 | It may seem strange that such an important and renowned healing centre should have been given up so easily and so early , and this may reflect the despoliation and depredations by members of the House of Constantine . |
| 18 | In fact the layers are stacked vertically not horizontally as shown in the drawing — the horizontal position was chosen to suggest that the layers were still " supporting the front-line units . |
| 19 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 20 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 21 | In preparing the reform and reconstruction of Japanese institutions , there was a conviction that ‘ what went wrong ’ in the 1930s was the way the traditional commitment of the Japanese to a group identity had been diverted all too easily into collective militaristic nationalism . |
| 22 | If you 've been caught out here please do not be so careless again . |
| 23 | Mohammed Al Fayed had the temerity to snatch Harrods from under his nose and has been hounded mercilessly ever since , often in the pages of Rowland 's own Observer newspaper . |
| 24 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 25 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 26 | So relatively accessible is it , that the Pic du Midi has become a thoroughly domesticated mountain ; as Belloc noted with distaste early this century , ‘ No other of the great mountains of Europe have been put more thoroughly in harness , ’ and since Belloc was there it has been harnessed more thoroughly still . |
| 27 | We 've not been let down once since ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ ; danceable with brilliant lyrics , every one . |
| 28 | However , the problem with contact lenses and glasses is that your eyes can change over time , so it is imperative that problems are sorted out as soon as possible , as it will be difficult to establish whether the fault lies in your eyes or in the lenses . |
| 29 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 30 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |