Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absent apparently has been any appreciation of the unfortunate historical precedent when Britain last linked her economic fortunes to those of another nation . |
| 2 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |
| 3 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 4 | Indeed , so integrated are such aims that , as the previous sections have shown , the so-called " vocational argument " is difficult to distinguish from others . |
| 5 | So secure is this home that once the female spider has built it , she never leaves it . |
| 6 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 7 | So gone is that staple of the detective story and its heirs as well as of the private-eye story , the loner . |
| 8 | Erm , and what causes erm you know , so tells is another series of accidents that , that are completely at the level of , of historical and bodily erm . |
| 9 | Long gone are those piles of suffocating heavy blankets needed to keep warm in bed at the height of winter coldness and the arduous task of bedmaking . |
| 10 | Later Selene joined in with Silent Long Have Been Those Numbers . |
| 11 | What was entirely missing was any sense of flamboyance , in clothing or lifestyle . |
| 12 | What is perhaps missing is that element of spontaneity which serves to project Haydn 's originality in a more vivid manner . |
| 13 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 15 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 16 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 17 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 18 | An economical explanation of the features just presented is that HDE 226868 and Cygnus X-1 form a binary pair with an orbital period of 5.6 days : the time-varying spectral shift of the optical partner is then simply the Doppler shift produced by its orbital motion . |
| 19 | Thirst for ice cold water , little and often , just sips is another characteristic . |
| 20 | What we did not see were any examples of pupil-centred enquiry methods being employed by teachers and using materials specifically purchased for this purpose with project funds , as predicted in the proposal documents . |
| 21 | Thus , in addition to notes and coins , M2 includes ‘ retail deposits ’ , which broadly speaking are all bank deposits of less than £100,000 , and building societies deposits , both withdrawable within one month . |
| 22 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 24 | There would not have been much music , one is suddenly reminded or much singing and dancing where Anna came from . |
| 25 | Gary Kemp 's portrayal of the homosexual psychopath Ronnie is utterly chilling ; we are not shown what he does in bed , but it can not have been much fun for his boyfriend . |
| 26 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 27 | It seems little short of incredible now that such a talent should not have been any source of income for half a century after she left art school , but heartening that the lack of any fiscal reward and only intermittent recognition from her peers made no impact on her creative energies . |
| 28 | Sir Frank also acknowledges that British ships had not been adequately defended against Exocet , and that there could not have been any control over its sale to third parties as British firms supplied only components . |
| 29 | Physically she would not have been any match for Fen . |
| 30 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |