Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 2 | Since make has been shown to evoke the idea of simply producing an effect , this explains why have always suggests a disposition to comply , whereas make does not . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 4 | The attacks coincided with an official visit by President Pierre Buyoya to France , and were widely reported to have been instigated by the exiled Palipehutu movement ( Parti pour la libération du peuple Hutu ) . |
| 5 | The decision , which was officially taken for administrative reasons , was widely considered to have been taken in order to reduce the Cardinal 's strong socially progressive influence based on the doctrine of " liberation theology " . |
| 6 | I am greatly honoured to have been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland in succession to Mr Michael Strachan , who retired in November 1990 after 16 years ' service . |
| 7 | Two , maybe three , parachutists were dubiously reported to have been sighted , but they were never heard of again . |
| 8 | Predators become better equipped for killing , but at the same time prey become better equipped to avoid being killed , so the net result is no change in the rate of successful killings . |
| 9 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 10 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |
| 11 | Enough seems to have been destroyed already . |
| 12 | However , the authors qualify their findings by pointing out that the group of exposed women was , in fact , only presumed to have been exposed since they had been selected by a computer matching of topical tretinoin prescriptions to pregnant women 3–4 months after their estimated dates of conception . |
| 13 | It may seem odd to complain of an excess of refinement in a film that features talking anuses and rubber monsters shaped like bottoms , but it does all seem to have been done in the best possible taste . |
| 14 | The relation between verse and what it apparently seeks to signify is disrupted and made unstable . |
| 15 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 16 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 17 | Over recent years much work has been done to promote more positive images of women in mathematics , but this does not seem to have developed into a comparable awareness concerning race or class . |
| 18 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 19 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 20 | The courtyard thus formed has been adopted by the Manx government who intent to develop it as a garden area . |
| 21 | The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed . |
| 22 | Clearly the existence of this sub-committee indicates many other , unminuted , meetings had taken place , and even the architect and contractor already appear to have been briefed , for they were reported to be at work , although the references in the minutes to their activities are unhelpful in pin-pointing what stage they were at . |
| 23 | However , the ceasefire of Oct. 8 was already reported to have been breached , and on Oct. 11 the Serbian-dominated rump Collective State Presidency [ see below ] rejected the EC agreement . |
| 24 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 25 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 26 | Magheralin Parish Church plans to buy and stock a 100 acre farm in Uganda and already support has been promised from many sections of the community . |
| 27 | This is generally thought to have been done deliberately , to improve drainage in the days before clay and now plastic field drains . |
| 28 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |
| 29 | Additionally the company claims that a lot of the glue logic normally needed has been incorporated into the chip so that a full SuperVGA card with support for video and audio recording and play-back can be built using 11 chips . |
| 30 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |