Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , funding has been insecure so that voluntary organisations are being encouraged to sell their expertise in order to fund their activities . |
| 2 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 3 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 4 | Competition has been healthy rather than intense , and results are that close in some of the classes , that the overall winners will not be known until the Sunday evening . |
| 5 | The problem of German national identity has been intractable largely because there is simply no credible political model in German history for the Germans to follow . |
| 6 | Indeed , one of the major arguments for the promotion of ‘ community care ’ over the past decades — its lower cost , compared with institutional and residential alternatives — has been sustainable precisely because the costs to carers and their families have been largely ignored . |
| 7 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 8 | The decline has been inconspicuous rather than dramatic , and is patchy ; the existence in British academic life of external examiners is something of a safeguard ( they are unknown in American universities , where quality control is even less secure ) . |
| 9 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
| 10 | The big surge in investment has been possible only because of the liberalisation policies pursued by the Government . |
| 11 | The economy of the Cape Verde Islands has been precarious ever since the Portuguese discovered the uninhabited archipelago around 1460 . |
| 12 | Demand for application forms for the £20 licences has been brisk recently and managing director Peter Stephenson is hoping there will be enough new dogs at the track to have two permit meetings a week . |
| 13 | However , the effect has been cathartic rather than catastrophic . |
| 14 | GREENE 'S '50s novel of a naively evil American agent in Indo-China and the cynical English hack who befriends him has been timely ever since it was published . |
| 15 | If only , thought Hugh , between amusement and anxiety , if only the lady has been gracious enough and considerate enough to keep the lid firmly on that reliquary of hers , we may yet come out of this without scandal . |
| 16 | He has been ill recently and has found it very hard to cope with his children . |
| 17 | ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser . |
| 18 | The professional role has been minimal , and , where it has been relevant has been facilitative rather than directive or initiating . |
| 19 | Such deference , though , has been contingent rather than certain . |
| 20 | The other main kind of socially deictic information that is often encoded is absolute rather than relational . |
| 21 | The ability to extract is rare precisely because it may have to cut across these obvious parts . |
| 22 | But , because it 's a command language and not a page description language the facilities it possesses are adequate rather than sophisticated . |
| 23 | She 'd been fractious lately and just could n't shake off thoughts and doubts about him and Maria Luisa . |
| 24 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 25 | Errors in searching are possible only if the searcher chooses the wrong subject heading in the published lists ; this too is regarded as an unlikely event . |
| 26 | It is detailed alright but as I said what they 've written is detailed enough but they 've missed out erm various things that we needed to know |
| 27 | Such power as it possesses is qualitative rather than quantitative . |
| 28 | Escaping is bad enough but doing it in the middle of the night is inexcusable . |
| 29 | By 1792 the general , public character of antislavery meetings for petitioning was evident even though , according to Clarkson , efforts were made to prevent public meetings in some places . |
| 30 | We have on our a a a as councillor er er erm was saying must earlier on her piece , sixty six to seventy five percent of people housed are homeless anyway and will be housed because of that situation . |