Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is assumed that the shallow water Lower Carboniferous carbonates uncomformably overlie a platform of these older rocks , which locally are intersected by the pre-Permian surface because of thrusting or uplift and erosion . |
| 2 | Every day in many countries , it is routine practice that books , pamphlets , newspapers , etc. are censored on a massive scale , and those whose ideas are the object of censorship risk death and imprisonment as a matter of course . |
| 3 | Today the garden is still there , although it has long since been absorbed into the sprawling outskirts of the town . |
| 4 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 5 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 6 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 7 | Although some progress has since been made by the meticulous work of the late Sir Ian Richmond and Roger Goodburn , it has been on too small a scale to support any attempt at a chronology of the history of the site . |
| 8 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 9 | This has since been employed in the wide variety of commercial designs that have arrived following the introduction of the Hawaiian ; but for a simple and long-standing development one need look no further than Top of The Line 's own ‘ Spin-Off ’ . |
| 10 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 11 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 12 | The leaves have since been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum , New York . |
| 13 | The two have since been combined in a single volume . |
| 14 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 15 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 16 | Research attention has also perhaps been focused to an undue degree on the adoption of physical conservation measures ( eg roof insulation ) and on the costs of a broad set of household behaviours ( eg opening windows while heating ) . |
| 17 | These operations had hitherto been handled by the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 18 | The strong showing by the FN in the Lyon by-elections followed a surge in support for the extreme right at a municipal election on Jan. 20 and 27 in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois , where the mayoralty had hitherto been held by the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 19 | The recovery of the gorilla population from 260 in the 1970s to today 's figure of 320 has hitherto been hailed as a conservation miracle . |
| 20 | That way , we are providing those front line services , that Councillor Taylor picked upon and Councillor Parker mentioned , such as Social Services that had been , that that literally been fleeced by the previous administration to pay for their capital projects . |
| 21 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 22 | The systems approach has necessarily been identified with a positivist approach and as such has been less resilient in human ( Johnston , 1983a ) than in physical geography . |
| 23 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 24 | I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race . |
| 25 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 26 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |
| 27 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 28 | The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum . |
| 29 | This belief has only been strengthened in the post-war period when indeed the division of Europe and the division of Germany were in fact physically the same thing . |
| 30 | This species has only been recorded from the eastern Atlantic from SW . |