Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely are precise management objectives set : there is little measurement of health output ; clinical evaluation of particular practices is by no means common and economic evaluation of those practices extremely rare . |
| 2 | Seventy per cent of it is going into farmer 's pockets , right , even on goods like m m manufactured goods , we pay V A T on er manufactured goods and that V A T pays for our contribution to the European Community and most of that contribution , about seventy per cent of it , goes to farmers tt erm , right so the next economic costs to European Community right are fourteen point nine billion alright that 's the size of the dead weight loss that 's the inefficiency right , of agricultural support right , losing fifteen billion dollars a year , right , just going down the er , the Swanny okay Just a couple of point just before we er before we close . |
| 3 | Might he perhaps been happier staying in Lahore to help in his father 's spare-parts business ? |
| 4 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 5 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 6 | Yesterday there had only been one dress on display . |
| 7 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 8 | There had only been one shot . |
| 9 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 10 | Mr Kelloway says there have only been minor teething problems and he is satisfied the machine is ready for production . |
| 11 | It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . " |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that there have , so far as we know , only been thirty-one phyla in all of pre-history ; nine have become totally extinct . |
| 13 | Er erm , there 's only been last year that I 've grown them |
| 14 | Since 1969 when the procedure was brought into effect there have only been three review boards , though AIB have conducted something like fifteen inspector 's investigations each year . |
| 15 | Had it only been this morning that she had visited Switham House and received that kind lady 's offer of help ? |
| 16 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 17 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 18 | Eels , speared through their gills on an eel stick , had long been standard rent in the Fens and Somerset Levels . |
| 19 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 20 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 21 | His design of mill may have been original , but others had long been growing rape-seed in East Anglia and milling rape-seed around London . |
| 22 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 23 | Primroses in their various guises have long been popular garden plants . |
| 24 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 25 | This has all been good training for his new post . |
| 26 | That has all been great fun . |
| 27 | I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |
| 29 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 30 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |