Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 2 | Was was any attempt made by the the experienced men the one who the ones who understood the rock and been in the presumably been in the industry |
| 3 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
| 4 | The Cockcroft Report pointed out that traditionally mathematics in school has rarely been about anything . |
| 5 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 6 | Because of its size it has rarely been on view there this century . |
| 7 | The situation in the Gulf may now dwarf the Palestinian issue , but no Middle East crisis can be seen in isolation ; a thousand days of protest has assured the plight of Palestinians has rarely been off the world agenda . |
| 8 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 9 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 10 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 11 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 12 | I 'd agree — While it 's great to see 2 away wins up , we have n't beaten any of the ‘ classy ’ teams yet … our wins have mostly been over the lower teams … which brings us to Wimbledon this week . |
| 13 | If guests have no credit cards they are usually asked to prepay for their stay at the hotel and all incidentals in bars and restaurants etc. are on a cash basis . |
| 14 | To meet this requirement , it will be necessary for weighers to keep their own record of tare weighings carried out , including time of taring and where removable parts , eg. sides , rear boards , tarpaulins , sacks , etc. are in use , whether these parts are included in the tare . |
| 15 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 16 | They first went to The Hitman in Blackpool after seeing one on TV and have since been to at least 10 of the shows . |
| 17 | Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time . |
| 18 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 19 | These ancestors have long since been at rest , but during their time around Pelynt there was between them bitter jealousy , treachery and hatred , leading even to murder . |
| 20 | This organisation has since been in correspondence with Neil Kinnock 's Westminster office , but has yet to receive any clear indication of whether Labour would indeed reduce the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 16 . |
| 21 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 22 | The boy was arrested and has since been in care because of ill-feelings in Mrs Fort 's community . |
| 23 | The overwhelming blackness , the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning ; I 've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity . |
| 24 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 25 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 26 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 27 | And he had n't been off long , perhaps been off three or four weeks , I I would say . |
| 28 | And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ? |
| 29 | InterCity has its own clear identity , though the greatest achievements have perhaps been with Network SouthEast , where the tide has really turned , and in Provincial with its own increasing network of imaginative expresses often resulting from stringing several services together . |
| 30 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |