Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Moir , head of BBC TV light entertainment , said : ‘ His unique gruff humour , his exceptional ability to use the English language to produce brilliant comic effect has rarely been equalled and surely now will never be surpassed . |
| 2 | Public examinations relate to the latter purposes ; they have mostly been set and marked by bodies such as the Examining Boards ( now grouped for GCSE examining ) . |
| 3 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Lie ’ has since been bootlegged and reissued on various labels and is still available . |
| 5 | Glass vessels appear in a variety of forms in graves and were classified by Harden ( 1956b ) into eleven types divided into three chronological groups , which have since been extended and reviewed ( Harden 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Rusted hooks hung from antiquated iron girders above him , the windows had long since been vandalized and the faded walls were daubed with obscene graffiti . |
| 7 | I contacted Glasgow Bible College and have since been accepted and begun the course for a B.A. ( theology ) . |
| 8 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 9 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 10 | Plans for the flats have since been shelved and the Maskells have received thirteen thousand pounds in compensation . |
| 11 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 12 | Tom Walkinshaw , chairman of the BRDC and their trading subsidiary Silverstone Circuits Ltd before the deal was made , has since been sacked and has resigned his membership of the Drivers ' Club . |
| 13 | Although it has since been modified and greater attention paid to radio , it is still manifest in some of the Government 's actions in the field of mass communication . |
| 14 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 15 | At the time of take-over , there was a separate manufacturing unit in the Isle of Man but this has since been closed and the looms transferred to Runcorn and Elderslie . |
| 16 | But the coroner added that the water system had since been disinfected and was now cleaned out regularly . |
| 17 | Jackie has since been released and the charges dropped . |
| 18 | An appropriate performance metric is required and has since been designed and applied to the original results , to reveal more objective patterns in the data ; |
| 19 | All have since been removed and installed in a museum in Hull . |
| 20 | ‘ I am disappointed because I finished fresh and fifth where I would have rather been exhausted and higher in the list . |
| 21 | The object of the Institution is , to reform , and bring into a regular system , that important branch of medicine which regards the treatment of diseases incidental to horses and other cattle , and which has hitherto been neglected and much abused in this country … |
| 22 | Enhancement of gastrointestinal synthesis of leukotrienes by NSAIDs in humans has not hitherto been shown and experimental evidence is conflicting ; indomethacin has been reported to enhance synthesis of LTB 4 , have no effect on synthesis of LTB 4 , and hinhibit synthesis of LTC 4 , albeit to a lesser extent than its effects on prostaglandins in the rat stomach . |
| 23 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 24 | The sphere of influence has suddenly been increased and another 300 000 people are likely to be attracted towards Hull . |
| 25 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 26 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 27 | They do not show how to impose mathematics , but occasions when mathematical experiences and ideas have naturally been involved and sometimes explored , as each teacher has thought appropriate . |
| 28 | And on such flimsy grounds she 'd apparently been tried and sentenced . |
| 29 | Immigration control had for long been advocated and in 1917 , under pressure of war , an Immigration Act was passed forbidding the entry of aliens over 16 years of age who were unable to read a 40-word passage . |
| 30 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |