Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's only been cleaned once since I 've had , and it 's been down er , since nineteen |
2 | The eight-mile round trip has only been bettered once before when the loco ran 15 miles for railway celebrations in Sacramento . |
3 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
4 | Fire rides , equipment , improvement of the natural water supplies , rendezvous points , sign posting , adequate access into the woods , had all been discussed solemnly as befitted their importance . |
5 | Half of one ear was missing , and his nose had obviously been broken more than a few times . |
6 | But cars , lorries and tractors are more effective so are used more than a few years ago . |
7 | However , the leaf people and the original people alone are described automatically as shy and fearful . |
8 | In addition , as the efficacy of a drug can only be assessed accurately when viewed within the context of the associated placebo response , we also calculated the difference between the estimated proportion of patients who had relapsed on each treatment at 26 , 38 , 51 , and 55 weeks , together with the 95% confidence interval for this difference . |
9 | The commitment in time and effort of members and friends of St. A's and St.G 's os enormous , but the result can only be achieved nowadays because of the constant support from Saughton , and that not just in terms of physical strength . |
10 | This can only be achieved fully when the observation is carried out without the knowledge of the observed , such as through one-way glass , or in circumstances where the observer is ‘ lost in the crowd ’ . |
11 | These employees may only be handled differently when the employer has a justifiable reason . |
12 | The decision to terminate a project can only be made rationally if the consequences of doing so can be compared with the consequences of carrying on . |
13 | The decision to terminate a project can only be made rationally if the consequences of doing so can be compared with the consequences of carrying on . |
14 | The council says the 1987 lease states a pharmacy could only be built there if a doctor 's surgery was on the site as well . |
15 | This would be the case if texts could only be understood completely as long as they were accompanied by the single , correct title . |
16 | In the US a share can only be sold short if its last price movement was upwards ( an uptick ) . |
17 | But it can only be performed well if there is a profound democratization of the structure of accountability . |
18 | There remains , however , a wide range of views covering more obviously political aspects of the phenomena which could only be described together as ‘ elitist ’ if we accept that term as a residual category . |
19 | In practice the countryside was easy to conquer ; but it could only be controlled properly if the fortified places upon which it depended for its economic well-being and defence were also in friendly hands . |
20 | Spacing , tabs , margins , typefaces , type sizes and print options need only be set once if a template file is used , saving valuable time and ensuring conformity . |
21 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
22 | It follows that the alternative models presented in this Lecture should not necessarily be regarded either as fully satisfactory or as exhausting those that could be advanced . |
23 | This , however , does not mean that all the shares , even if of the same nominal value and of the same class , will necessarily be issued at the same price , or that , even if they are , all shareholders will necessarily be treated alike as regards calls for the unpaid part . |
24 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
25 | The question of fraud had earlier been raised in December 1988 , when the Court had complained of double-counting by beef farmers : an EP committee had reported in late January that in three areas of West Germany , 80 per cent of all cattle were apparently being slaughtered more than once ( for earlier cases see pp. 35915 ; 36493 ) . |
26 | It should be noted that many of the rights outlined above are qualified so as to accommodate existing national practices . |
27 | This is no doubt used partly to avoid repeating " marriage " , which is the title of the poem and so has already been used more than once . |
28 | A cheque for £99,999,999 spewed out by Great Aycliffe Town Council 's computer had already been signed once when it was spotted by council leader Arun Chandran . |
29 | As in the case of autarchic policy making , effective outside influence would require that public interest in specific social issues had already been articulated rather than being reflected in some generalized public unease . |
30 | He told us unsettling stories of Chinese merchants who had insisted on travelling aboard the prahus to keep an eye on their cargo , and had somehow been lost overboard while their merchandise appeared for sale in harbours far from their intended destination . |