Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience over the last ten years ( 1963–73 ) has convinced the staff of this Polytechnic of the need for a more flexible type of course than is commonly offered to students . |
| 2 | It is important to note that sexual violence , including rape , has a wider range of forms than is typically reported upon in the press or recognised as a crime . |
| 3 | Given the inclusion of so many considerations , it is not surprising that standards may be amended from time to time : for example , standards may be made more stringent if new scientific research reveals a lower threshold of effect than was previously believed to exist . |
| 4 | Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author . |
| 5 | It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected . |
| 6 | This type of holiday attracts a much younger and more adventurous type of person than is usually associated with the cruising industry . |
| 7 | It has been true in parts for a period of British politics but it is not the theoretical key to unlock the essence of things as was once thought to be the case . |
| 8 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 9 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 10 | There is overwhelming evidence from many research studies to show that visual behaviours play a larger part in communications between people than is usually supposed . |
| 11 | Shame on the Ordnance Survey for giving it the name of Ingleborough Hill on some of their maps : it is every inch a mountain and , although not the highest in England as was once thought and is overtopped by many others , one of the grandest . |
| 12 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 13 | The press is far older in Africa than is generally supposed , the first newspapers probably being those that appeared during the Napoleonic occupation of Egypt in 1797 . |
| 14 | The former communist states of eastern Europe are not suffering as badly from pollution as is widely believed , according to a study by Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University . |
| 15 | Stephen McMullin , of the Cleveland Coucil for Voluntary Service , said there was now much greater use of amphetamine-based drugs in Cleveland than was ever acknowledged . |
| 16 | And I think it 's a lot more common in men than is actually reported . |
| 17 | ( 98 ) … the nineteenth century ethos , which we now know to have been less stable and free from doubt than was once imagined . |
| 18 | A closer examination of the Celtic Church reveals a much greater deviation from Rome than is generally acknowledged or even known . |
| 19 | But they also salvaged much , so that the new regime was established upon principles which were much more conducive to Toryism than is normally thought . |
| 20 | It could well be that there are many more signals operating between cells than is currently suspected . |
| 21 | In South Wales 10 per cent of those who were classed as always alone , and therefore by implication as being socially isolated , reported that they often or always felt lonely . |
| 22 | In addition , the older pupils ‘ were significantly more socially acceptable among their peers , were less anxious , had a higher self-image and were rated by teachers as being better adjusted to school . ’ |