Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power . |
| 2 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 3 | Not only can you find out the results of addition quickly after all the figures have been written down , you can also predict the results of adding together three rows of figures after only one has been written down . |
| 4 | development of dictionaries and the use , the use of English so we have been assured in , that , that , anything we say will be divorced from |
| 5 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had been carried out on the orders of someone else ? |
| 7 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 8 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 9 | So they 've been slimmed down . |
| 10 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 11 | Apparently it had been placed there in the pre-dawn . |
| 12 | Yeah , Buddhist religious group , but they , no they 've eh , apparently it 's been sold again now . |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently it 's been splashed all over the Standard this evening . |
| 14 | Perhaps it had been driven there by a storm . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it has been cast aside . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps he had been banished outside . |
| 17 | Perhaps he had been caught unawares by a flashgun ? |
| 18 | Perhaps he had been knocked down , or had died of a heart attack . |
| 19 | Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here . |
| 20 | So it 's been towed away . |
| 21 | who is now left , but never the less it 's been taken over by |
| 22 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 23 | Physically I have been pushed harder , made to ski faster and longer than ever before . |
| 24 | Already I 've been lined up to do 12 presentations to clubs and coaching conventions . |
| 25 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 26 | Justice , on the contrary , is concerned with the decisions that the standing political institutions , whether or not they have been chosen fairly , ought to make . |
| 27 | Thus it has been written recently : " The shelf off eastern United States is covered almost entirely with relict near-shore sands of the ( Pleistocene ) transgression " . |
| 28 | Thus it has been shown experimentally that , because we all expect playing cards to fall into familiar sets , a briefly exposed black four of hearts will be perceived as a red four of hearts or black of spades . |
| 29 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 30 | Whether or not what has been suggested here reflects your view of the world is immaterial . |