Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also examined are how these households organise their domestic time and tasks , and their attitudes to the changing patterns of work and the problems which arise . |
| 2 | Presumably it is much more likely that such a problem would be picked up by professionals involved in a family , but it underlines the fact that children who are failing to thrive are very much at risk unless they are being taken to the clinic , for example , or are being seen regularly in the home by a Health Visitor . |
| 3 | The issues to which my hon. Friend referred are just those where the health service needs to do a little better on listening to patients ' needs . |
| 4 | As we shall see , the controls which the courts have developed are as much concerned with supplementing legislative intent as with implementing it . |
| 5 | The figures to which the hon. Gentleman refers are not those proposed by the Government but those which the Housing Executive says that it could spend . |
| 6 | The questions which give rise to debate are rarely those which later have to be decided by the courts . |
| 7 | Their Spiced Almond Thins are n't half bad either . |
| 8 | Paper mills in Britain which are breaking the law by discharging more effluent into rivers than permitted are nearly all escaping prosecution , according to a report published by the Women 's Environmental Network , an independent pressure group . |
| 9 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 10 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 11 | Sexual experiment , now or in earlier life , is and has been markedly less than with younger people . |
| 12 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 13 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My wife has been dead these two years . |
| 15 | ‘ Unfortunately I can not join you , because I am expecting a very old friend of my family , who has been here all these years , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 17 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 18 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 19 | There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS . |
| 20 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 21 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 22 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |
| 23 | Given the undoubted importance of deixis to philosophical , Psychological and linguistic approaches to the analysis of language , there has been surprisingly little work of a descriptive nature in the area , with a Consequent lack of adequate theories and frameworks of analysis . |
| 24 | There has been precious little attention to giving basic education to the general public on the art of wise borrowing . |
| 25 | Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them . |
| 26 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 27 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 28 | Daily turnover in options has been regularly less than the 30,000 contracts per day which it is estimated the LTOM needs to cover its costs . |
| 29 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 30 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |