Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 2 | Earth tremors caused structural damage in Angra village in 1988 but the nuclear plant 's operators , state-owned Furnas Centrais Electricas , denied that the reactor had been damaged , although it has since been closed several times for " repairs " . |
| 3 | The fishermen were so concerned for its welfare that they closed the lake for the remainder of the season , and the fish has since been spotted several times , fully recovered . |
| 4 | In the home and in the workplace , women are constantly being urged these days to be more assertive . |
| 5 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 6 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 7 | However , the conference , whose start had already been postponed several times [ see p. 38323 ] , only managed to complete its first session . |
| 8 | The referendum , first scheduled for November 1991 , had already been postponed several times [ see pp. 38227 ; 38424 ; 38565 ; 38663 ] . |
| 9 | The possibility of claiming that you have been constructively dismissed has already been mentioned several times . |
| 10 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 11 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 12 | Leaving aside the fact , to which we will return in a moment , that less skilled people can usually be paid less wages than those who are skilled , an important characteristic of craft workers is that they often exercise tight control as an occupation over the job that they do . |
| 13 | Wooden shuttering would char in the process , but could still be used several times . |
| 14 | In the iterative mode there is an imbalance whereby an event occurring only once is narrated several times or , much more frequently in literature , an event occurring frequently or repeatedly is narrated only once . |
| 15 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 16 | You will probably be asked some questions about your health , and you will need to have a routine chest X-ray if you have n't had one lately . |
| 17 | Sadly , the dear little chapel also was demolished some years ago , and the demise of the railway took place about 30 years ago . |
| 18 | The potential for font mismatching has now been raised many times . |
| 19 | Here are ranged such organizations as the National Association of Language in Education Centres ( NALEC , 1985 ) on the one hand , whose membership commands direct access through professional development teachers and initial training lectures to classroom teachers and who take the predominantly phenomenological approach to language of ‘ reading through real books ’ . |
| 20 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 21 | The whole assembly can then be given several coats of varnish to help hold the windings in place and glued down to a square mounting board , etc . |
| 22 | Nowhere else in the world he ever again be accorded such honours . |
| 23 | He said a total of 24 dogs had died and despite many samples being taken away the local people had never been given any results . |
| 24 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |
| 25 | An expert must therefore be given these powers by the expert clause ; otherwise his jurisdiction will be severely limited . |
| 26 | A child at school must certainly be taught those skills which will enable him plausibly to seek and subsequently to hold down a job . |