Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the driving seat to replace whoever goes down are London Scottish . |
| 2 | His tenacious belief in the venture by keeping it running cost him heavy personal financial loss and his ‘ nursing ’ of this satire on operetta that has rarely been equalledis largely forgotten ( but not by me ) . |
| 3 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 4 | The intervention of outside powers , finally , has obviously been non-internationalist in both motivation and effect , except by pure accident . |
| 5 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 6 | Gulls and jaegers especially are opportunists , feeding on insects , fish , small mammals and whatever else is plentiful . |
| 7 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 8 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 9 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 10 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 11 | In the case of Canada , that centre has long been New York ’ . |
| 12 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 13 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 14 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 15 | 11.2 At the same time , the Department recognises that it has long been practice to seek assistance from the police in certain situations , particularly in order to avoid a breach of the peace when carrying out statutory duties which involve the restriction of liberty and removal of persons . |
| 16 | Some in the profession of political commentating would opt for Bagehot as their formative influence , but mine has long been Sir David — a founder of biased Tory journalism . |
| 17 | Of course , en suite has long been de rigueur ( if you 'll pardon my French ) in hotels nationwide . |
| 18 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |
| 19 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
| 20 | Despite its enormous restructuring problems , Big Steel has not been Japan 's greatest raiser of cash . |
| 21 | There has not been space to say much about the flight from generality in the world outside mind , but I have tried to show how the attempts to flee generality within the mind and to abandon or reduce consciousness must both fail . |
| 22 | Faith ‘ Our baby is without a father because he has not been man enough to face up to his responsibility , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Frequently seen on the campaign trail — including Scotland , Wales and Yorkshire — he has not been part of Major 's ‘ A-team ’ for the morning press conferences . |
| 24 | The most quantitatively significant development in terms of content this century has not been rehabilitation but deterrence ( through the massive expansion in the use of the fine , as we saw in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 25 | THE MEAN CALCULATION HAS NOT BEEN HAND CHECKED , BUT SEEMS STRAIGHTFORWARD . |
| 26 | THE most important news for the economy in the last week or so has not been Mr Lamont 's Budget , nor the Government 's travails over the Maastricht treaty , but the challenge to President 's Yeltsin 's Government in Russia . |
| 27 | Their duties include the determination and monitoring of policy but there has not been research into this or any aspects of Probation Committees ' work . |
| 28 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 29 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there has already been snow in the north , the midlands , and even on Exmoor in my constituency ? |
| 30 | The feminized male has always been suspect , be he the advocate of unisex , androgyny , or , now , the play of the post-modern . |