Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 3 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 4 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 5 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 6 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 7 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 8 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 9 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 10 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 11 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 12 | But at this moment some six hundred land girls in Sussex alone are attacking this job against all the ’ . |
| 13 | There were a few diplomatic handshakes as the players left the field at the end , but it seemed a relief that an extra week lay between this Test match and the next , and it could only be hoped that work would continue behind the scenes to impress upon these cricketers , especially the more excitable ones , that the game does not deserve to be abused . |
| 14 | This led to divorce from his wife , who could perhaps be permitted some schadenfreude at the fact that Van Den Hauwe 's relationship had , perforce , become platonic . |
| 15 | In the home and in the workplace , women are constantly being urged these days to be more assertive . |
| 16 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 17 | Many of Mozart 's smaller-scale pieces , particularly the dances , were much in demand ( ironically enough ) by 1791 , and 48 dances alone were published that year . |
| 18 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 19 | It 's already been said this morning they are entitled to a voice and therefore we need to retain er , a separate trade union membership . |
| 20 | If I 'm g go over things that Dennis covered or that have already been covered this morning , I , I will be brief a and I just wanted to say these are some of my personal views on the quality initiatives . |
| 21 | The point has already been made that industry here can include nationally or internationally orientated services like DHSS Longbenton . |
| 22 | From the tenor of speeches that have already been made this morning , it is obvious that the work TECs do must be acknowledged . |
| 23 | Largent 's records for most catches and most receiving yards have already been eclipsed this year by Washington 's Art Monk and Buffalo 's James Lofton . |
| 24 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 25 | 200 redundancies have already been announced this year . |
| 26 | In fact , the only one not now in profit is fertilizers , and strong action has already been taken that Lindsell is confident will lead to renewed health in this remaining problem area over the next two or three years . |
| 27 | User has already been passed this SPR |
| 28 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 29 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 30 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |