Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all .
2 Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just .
3 It has been suggested that Methodism generally produced an attitude of mind and sense of resignation as well as the habits of order and " industry " which combined to reinforce in the proletariat the necessary submission to the disciplinary imperatives of industrial capitalism .
4 It has been suggested that acetylation probably inactivates the drug , as is often the case with hepatic metabolism of drugs .
5 Okay if I could say good evening and welcome to the theatre this evening the reason the meeting has been convened this evening quite clearly is part of the process and art structure for Harlow having undertaken by the Council , the Playhouse is keen as it says quite clearly on the leaflet is to get the publics view on how best to plan this programme and it 's , and facilities for the future .
6 The tree has been removed some time since .
7 I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in !
8 They reckoned then that anything in the river would have been sent half way across to Norway so that put paid to that search .
9 On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital .
10 Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed .
11 This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors .
12 But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before .
13 She had been widowed some time when we met . ’
14 Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories .
15 The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage .
16 The alluvial soil on which the city stood was frozen all year round but thawed a few feet down during the summer .
17 It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters .
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