Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 2 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 3 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |
| 4 | So are you omitting to say what exactly has been in numbers . |
| 5 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 6 | The money £200,000 more than Darlington usually receives is to be used on three major improvement schemes alongside the main East Coast railway line . |
| 7 | Race horse trainer … easy life … you 've got to be joking … steeplechasing is all of life always has been to David Nicholson … he was born and bred … turned out and trained on the gallops at Prestbury … |
| 8 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 9 | and always has been by Ron . |
| 10 | ‘ He always has been in the past , so the Abwehr have found . |
| 11 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 12 | Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers . |
| 13 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 14 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 15 | The only difference of opinion so far has been over boxing . |
| 16 | However , the emphasis in the project so far has been on formulating these individual solutions rather than on co-ordinating them . |
| 17 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 18 | The accent so far has been on production and we need to spread its use in the commercial , R&T and other support functions . |
| 19 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 20 | Krystom 's main impact so far has been in catching carp , the Independent readers of the fish world . |
| 21 | We estimate the cost of this campaign so far has been in excess of £20,000 . |
| 22 | Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home . |
| 23 | Most of the gas discovered so far has been from the Z2 Carbonate but a few finds have also been made from the Z3 Carbonate in the western Netherlands and the adjacent offshore area , and gas is present in both the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates in Scram . |
| 24 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 25 | But all of the injustice until now has been with women inadequately supported and husbands |
| 26 | The highly organised St Stephen 's Society programme which she now leads was at that time a closed book to her ! |
| 27 | And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind . |
| 28 | Where this book mainly fails is in its implied answer to the question : what sort of science is to be grown ? |
| 29 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 30 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |