Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It was an obvious and necessary position which should have been filled long before . |
2 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
3 | After a site has been filled in again only artefacts , notebooks and the photographic record remain to aid the archaeologist in the long post-excavation period when he or she has to decide what it all meant , and publish details of what was found . |
4 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
5 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
6 | ‘ Something small , which might have been hidden almost anywhere . |
7 | Too much had been hidden too long . |
8 | This will lead me to take seriously some of those attributes of professional work which have perhaps been dismissed too lightly in recent work as mere political rhetoric . |
9 | Moreover , the fundamental social structures and traditional land-management practices of many indigenous populations have often been dismissed as more or less irrelevant to modern-day needs . |
10 | The peasant grass-roots culture that has been examined briefly here was too local in scope , too illiterate , to line up strongly with the intelligentsia . |
11 | Variables which have been examined particularly frequently by sociolinguists are social class , age , sex and ethnicity . |
12 | The reality of life at passenger-level , mentioned only indirectly , could have been examined more thoroughly to determine the efficiency of British Rail 's service delivery , surely the basis for its existence . |
13 | These facilities make VSAM more similar to database software than most of the file organization techniques that have been examined so far — in fact , many of the database systems available for mini- and micro-computers provide only this multiple index facility . |
14 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
15 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
16 | But it is also noteworthy that once the Suez adventure had been stopped how anxiously , if in the greatest secrecy , the Eisenhower administration set about trying to reverse the damage which had been inflicted upon the Atlantic alliance and upon Britain . |
17 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
18 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
19 | They are gathered even now . |
20 | Now , unless I am mistaken , those partisans of anti-cruelty or pro-welfare who are gathered here also accept these same aspirations . |
21 | As sober as judges and as reverent as pilgrims , we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of disco and rock , the funeral of Sinead O'Connor , the birth of cool . |
22 | Finland had been annexed only recently , and the impoverishment of the Baltic peasantry which resulted from their emancipation under Alexander I could have given rise to extensive social unrest . |
23 | As direct eye contact is established , then held , her pupils are dilated not just by the half-light , but by adrenalin . |
24 | These are the sorts of remarks that are heard quite often , signalling the presence of a basic tension of teaching and learning . |
25 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
26 | Social attitudes , influenced by widespread publicity campaigns , are hardening against the drinking driver ; and demands for tougher sentencing policies , or for new legislation on random breath tests , are heard more frequently . |
27 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
28 | Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically . |
29 | They are placed here mainly for your enjoyment and for subsequent discussion with friends and teachers . |
30 | Another difficulty is that new forms of co-operation must be established between individuals who have little knowledge about each other , who are placed temporarily under new managers , and who often feel closely attached to their functional departments . |