Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 3 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | Unsecured loan stocks are corporate bonds that are not secured by either a fixed or a floating charge . |
| 5 | Many general practitioners , however , continue to offer low levels of supervision , and diabetic miniclinics are still offered in only a minority of practices . |
| 6 | Bukharin thus posed the problem facing the Bolsheviks in its starkest form , a problem that was to be hotly debated for nearly a decade to come . |
| 7 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 8 | Experience of earlier privatisations is that the form of sale is rarely settled until quite a late stage in the exercise . |
| 9 | As a result of our involvement , however , it would appear that the NCT is little known at either a national or local level . |
| 10 | It is apparently done in quite a crude fashion , using a look-up table . |
| 11 | One of the event organisers , George Sproule , said : ‘ The idea behind the fun day is to show that being part of the church is not limited to once a week on Sunday . ’ |
| 12 | But the situation of working people in political systems where unionization is underdeveloped and is not coupled with even a social democratic form of political mobilization is anomalous for most Marxists . |
| 13 | This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse . |
| 14 | So , hot water is best provided by either a gas or electric instantaneous water heater . |
| 15 | Although there are numerous interpretations of the basic herati form , it is usually employed in either an allover or medallion-and-corner format . |
| 16 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's always behaved like a-like a pig to me . |
| 18 | Takes its name from the Persian word for crab , but is probably based on either a floral or animal form . |
| 19 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 20 | It is true that the text departs from the normal format of Scaevola 's digesta , in which his favourite expression secundum ea quae proponerentur is regularly followed by only a couple of words . |
| 21 | Limited liability for companies was not introduced until nearly a century after the outset of England 's industrial revolution . |
| 22 | One example is the third-century kiln at Godmanchester , which can be related to a building in Pinfold Lane , while a clay-floored structure at Hacheston was interestingly associated with both a third-century kiln producing grey wares and an iron-smithing furnace . |
| 23 | But she realised with irritation that it was n't followed by either a phone number or an address . |
| 24 | But the body was n't found for over a week . |
| 25 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |