Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) .
2 RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ;
3 No effort is made to choose a panel who are committed to further part time training , and rarely are women doctors put on the interview panel .
4 RARELY are women and men shown in a variety of occupations .
5 Herein are summaries of some of the techniques which will be used later .
6 All the Hegels etc. are charlatans beside him .
7 The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes .
8 Elections to the Knesset held on Nov. 1 , 1988 , resulted in deadlock between the two main parties , Likud and the Labour Party , which had hitherto been partners along with a number of minor parties in a coalition government formed following the last , similarly inconclusive elections in 1984 .
9 Opposite are examples of weekly income levels up to which you should be entitled to some reduction on your Poll Tax bill .
10 In the field opposite are fissures in the underlying limestone , entrances to long subterranean passages .
11 At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally .
12 The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations .
13 The group is still looking for possible partners for its optronics operations , though it insists that so far there have only been talks , not negotiations .
14 As he had thought ‘ Coventry ’ had only been starters , one by one the names of our principal cities were mentioned .
15 Steve could n't have gone straight out so quickly , it had only been seconds before she had called again .
16 Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams .
17 Within the overall Upward trend there have naturally been fluctuations and current and capital expenditure have not always behaved in the same manner .
18 But the rivers that keep the lake fresh are required for agriculture ; and there have long been plans to dam them .
19 Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate .
20 This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties .
21 There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks .
22 There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology .
23 The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd .
24 The third principle is one that the Danes have long been sticklers for — the democratic accountability of European government .
25 It was small wonder that anti-war and pacifist groups flourished in the labour movement of the time , though rarely among seamen and , it seems , hardly at all among their leaders , though initially " hating the Hun " was far from easy , for German seamen had long been colleagues and comrades , not only aboard ship , but also in organisations affiliated to the International Transport Workers ' Federation .
26 There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange .
27 Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status .
28 There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall .
29 In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans .
30 He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously .
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