Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The values given here are from subsequent heating and cooling cycles applied slowly . |
| 2 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 3 | My position on the Jews has always been without ambiguity . |
| 4 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 5 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 6 | Many of the marchers had never been on a CND march . |
| 7 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 8 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |
| 9 | A party of Teesside journalists have recently been on a fact-finding tour of ICI 's Group Environmental Laboratory at Brixham , Devon . |
| 10 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 11 | German supporters have also been on the rampage . |
| 12 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 13 | The bones illustrated here are from a vole carcase and are extensively scored with tooth marks ( Fig. 1.3 A-C ) . |
| 14 | Nowadays , with increasing pressure on parliamentary time not even the periods indicated above are in reality wholly available for genuine Private Members ' business . |
| 15 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 16 | In 1885 the two countries had even been on bad enough terms to recall their respective ambassadors . |
| 17 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 18 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 19 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 20 | Media spend on the personal care brands through LH-S totalled just over £1m , but the brands have historically been worth much more . |
| 21 | Neither Gran nor my parents have ever been in Italy . |
| 22 | I conducted the First Symphony during the war but the first two symphonies have always been for me a little to close to Tchaikovsky . |
| 23 | I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves . |
| 24 | Most of the blocks mentioned here are at the physical level , but the emotional and mental blocks are equally important . |
| 25 | His concerns have consistently been with education and with youth . |
| 26 | Rationalists and moralists have always been at least a little uneasy about admitting that so much that they most value comes out of the vast area of human behaviour which shares the spontaneity of physical events . |
| 27 | What happens , what other effects have there been as a result of protectionism in agricultural trade ? |
| 28 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |
| 29 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 30 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |