Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 2 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 3 | Yet hypnosis can produce seriously distorted memories which the witness nevertheless believes are true |
| 4 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 5 | Regeneration here has been impressive ; indeed , Sir Terence expects to build here again . |
| 6 | A recognisable conventional poetic strategy of indicating the power of verse to create lasting reputation , with the usual implication that what the poet actually desires is physical enjoyment of the transitory beauty , is here rendered unstable . |
| 7 | It was originally a large , stout , hardy draught animal at a time when beef came mainly from plough oxen once they were no longer in prime working condition ( typical of meat production in many countries even now ) and was then developed as a triple-purpose draught , meat and milk type but it soon evolved into essentially a beef animal and in that role its influence worldwide has been immense and far-reaching . |
| 8 | Diesel always has been lead-free and the only adjustments you need to make are mental ones , because diesel-powered cars are no longer slow , smelly or noisy . |
| 9 | Saving the world will not be cheap , but , then , security never has been cheap . |
| 10 | Erm in East Anglia erm sorry that 's , that 's true for the north and the south west , in East Anglia er output also has been flat erm but that seems to be related to weakness in export demand in the region erm export was the weakest er in that region of any region throughout the U K although total optimism is strong so it seems to be the case erm though business is being done the export economy erm in East Anglia . |
| 11 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 12 | Inflation here has been rampant , the charge for admission having increased sixty-fold since I was a lad . |
| 13 | My experience here has been positive . |
| 14 | The trend already has been remarkable : we used to have 140,000 village shops in the 1960s . |
| 15 | The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) . |
| 16 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 17 | The Church here has been great . |
| 18 | The Transport and General Workers Union too has been active In the industry , and its latest recruitment drives is also aimed at casuals . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH the bond market generally has been yo-yoing with the fortunes of the Gulf war , one issue is selling like hot bagels . |
| 20 | Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy . |