Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One patient was treated with a drug not normally used for the condition after it had successfully been tested on her blood . |
| 2 | The process of creating the record is valuable in its own right ; it brings respect for the contribution of the parent to the learning environment and can provide a level of involvement by the parent which has rarely been seen in our schools . |
| 3 | Commanding Generals rarely are known for their sense humility . |
| 4 | The airborne branch has long since been covered in its own thorough MAA 139 , so it is welcome to see this new and interesting study of the LFDs — in much greater and more specific depth , and well illustrated . |
| 5 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 6 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 7 | Several so-called religious visions of the Middle Ages have since been attributed to it . ’ |
| 8 | Accordingly the defendant had effectively been deprived of his right to have the breath specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) and , as in Anderton v. Lythgoe , the breath specimen had been inadmissible . |
| 9 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |
| 10 | Hello there , oh not too bad y'know erm let's see , just done child sex abuse , or rather been talking about it |
| 11 | This indeed was a factor in hastening the decay of villeinage , because a man who was free would not wish to incur servile obligations if he took possession of land which had hitherto been burdened with them . |
| 12 | Within hours of the IDF departure Hezbollah militiamen returned to the villages , reportedly accompanied by members of what had hitherto been seen as their main rival within the Lebanese Shia population , the Syrian-backed Amal militia . |
| 13 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 14 | This information made Charles feel disproportionately cheerful , as though he had suddenly been reprieved from something . |
| 15 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 16 | A wanderer , an iconoclast , whose mind had only been matched by his eccentricity . |
| 17 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 18 | Mrs Lydan has only been left with her memories since her husband died . |
| 19 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 20 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 21 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 22 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 23 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 24 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 25 | Women pastors have long been regarded as something quite normal . |
| 26 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 27 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 28 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 29 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 30 | These writs were not new and by Edward 's reign the church had long been fighting against their use in such matters as tithes and debts , testaments and matrimony . |