Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selectors knew they were playing with fire when they decided to arrange a couple of club fixtures and they have duly been consumed in a conflagration of their own making . |
| 2 | Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class . |
| 3 | Indeed , the permanent absence of humans has rarely been cited as a condition . |
| 4 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 5 | Every day in many countries , it is routine practice that books , pamphlets , newspapers , etc. are censored on a massive scale , and those whose ideas are the object of censorship risk death and imprisonment as a matter of course . |
| 6 | These views reflect what has since been recognized as a ‘ prevailing ideology ’ in ‘ the British literary-journalistic establishment ’ of the 1950s — — in which Snow 's influence as a reviewer played a considerable part . |
| 7 | ( These have since been tightened as a result of the events in June 1989 ) . |
| 8 | It has long since been turned into a pond and moat . |
| 9 | This experimental solution has since been confirmed by a purely mathematical analysis carried out by H. L. Cox . |
| 10 | After his death in March 1984 , the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery under the leadership of Brig. -Gen. ( now Maj.-Gen. ) |
| 11 | After his death in March 1984 the armed forces seized power and the country has since been ruled by a Military Committee for National Recovery ( CMRN ) . |
| 12 | The threat has since been withdrawn in a statement issued to the local Press . |
| 13 | They had turned her pillow so that it was fresh , and the tawdry finery had long since been replaced by a smooth , pale quilt that reached to her breast . |
| 14 | The papers have since been published as a collection by ESRC ( ‘ Global Restructuring , Local Response' ed Philip Cooke , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | This has since been complemented by a Co-op super-store with 40 000 sq . |
| 16 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 17 | The two have since been combined in a single volume . |
| 18 | The woodwork , once painted white but now faded to a dingy cream with a grey deposit in the crevices , was chipped and scuffed and the pattern of leaves and flowers on the stair carpet had long since been reduced to a brownish blur . |
| 19 | The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle , which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse . |
| 20 | The area had effectively been abandoned as a port in favour of new sites further down the Thames which used the then new technology of roll on/roll off container ships . |
| 21 | It 's a simple principle , you give everybody a number and the numbers as they move on are shown on a display board . |
| 22 | The research focus shifted to the role of the message in referential communication , and also to listeners who had hitherto been regarded as a somewhat passive element . |
| 23 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 24 | This had hitherto been prevented in a desire to help encourage mobile industries to locate in the less prosperous regions of the north and west . |
| 25 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 26 | Airline access to Heathrow had hitherto been restricted by a rule introduced in 1977 , declaring that only those airlines which already served it could continue to do so . |
| 27 | The recovery of the gorilla population from 260 in the 1970s to today 's figure of 320 has hitherto been hailed as a conservation miracle . |
| 28 | The systems approach has necessarily been identified with a positivist approach and as such has been less resilient in human ( Johnston , 1983a ) than in physical geography . |
| 29 | In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment . |
| 30 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |