Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method used here is the functional one . |
| 2 | This comes in two forms , that used here being the SADS-L , or Lifetime Version , which enables the assessment to be based , not on a single episode of illness , but on accumulated information about the person , covering the longer time periods over which our subjects could be studied . |
| 3 | The survey reported here was the other strand of the project and addressed issues relating to adults ' pre-enrolment to these types of courses . |
| 4 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 5 | It was useless to start calling her irresponsible brother a few names — he 'd always been the same , and she 'd known that , love him though she did , when they had moved to London . |
| 6 | They 'd hardly been the first , he reflected . |
| 7 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 8 | The best jumper I came across was the Argentinian , Llanes , who outfoxed me time and again . |
| 9 | What came forward was the lowest common common denominator , the least er the least that could be agreed without any argument . |
| 10 | One psychoanalytic theory of depression is that anger unexpressed and turned inwards is the basic cause of clinically depressive states . |
| 11 | Amongst the projects that benefited immediately were the Vertical Take-Off ground attack fighter , P1127 , which eventually became the Harrier , and its supersonic variant the P1154 air defence fighter . |
| 12 | The other regional feature of the exterior displayed here is the fish-tail roofing of turrets and lantern , which has an oriental appearance and is like that at Fontevrault kitchen ( 276 ) and Angoulême Cathedral ( 273 and 376 ) , also the Spanish Cathedral of Zamora ( 316 ) . |
| 13 | Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits . |
| 14 | All I had heard or read before was the usual superficial assumption that the disease was a matter of slimming which had somehow or other ( no one ever said how ) got out of hand . |
| 15 | The effect was to suggest that what mattered most was the urgent need to communicate a message rather than the need to construct a polished work of musical art . |
| 16 | A report published in Le Monde on Sept. 19 noted that Egypt 's earnings from workers overseas had hitherto been the main source of foreign exchange receipts , amounting to over $2,000 million per year , of which $500 million came from workers in Kuwait alone . |
| 17 | They had obviously been the Russian barracks , with officers and men quartered there . |
| 18 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 19 | Poor folk had long been the chief sufferers from the raids of the body-snatchers , because of the flimsy coffins and shallow graves to which their corpses were consigned . |
| 20 | The Miners ' Welfare had long been the central social institution , and it became the focus of activity during the strike too . |
| 21 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 22 | It had long been the traditional burial ground of kings ; all Louis 's royal Capetian ancestors — with the exception of his father Philip — were buried within its confines . |
| 23 | However , it is still common to see exchange rates expressed in terms of the dollar , partly because this had long been the accepted practice under the adjustable peg , and also because of the USA 's continuing dominance in the world economy and financial system . |
| 24 | The divorce of mail and telephone ( of which Sweden had long been the main example ( at last in the 1980S became widespread . |
| 25 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 27 | The strict controls over our life at school , our terrible school uniform and the climate of East Yorkshire conspired against either of these sexual eventualities , which had apparently been the common run of existence in Trinidad . |
| 28 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 29 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 30 | Sarajevo radio said yesterday was the quietest since the beginning of the war . |