Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
2 | Erm so in actual fact we 'd 've been there or thereabouts had we not made the budget assumptions that we did . |
3 | When so large a part of modern politics , above all in America , is concerned with policies which an insight into the psychology of envy would reveal to be inherently futile , it is perhaps not surprising that the study of that psychology has been instinctively or deliberately neglected . |
4 | Yet another relevant ideology , which infects judges , governments and the general public in greater or lesser degrees at different times , is the ideology of law and order , which has been notably and provocatively analysed by the Marxist theorist Stuart Hall ( 1979 , 1990 ; Hall et al. , 1979 ) . |
5 | The tournament has been well and truly annexed by the British for the past four years , and the form book still favours a non-American winner this time . |
6 | Now , in our classless society , it has been well and truly democratised . |
7 | Christ 's message of peace and goodwill to all men has been well and truly eclipsed by today 's stars . |
8 | But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel . |
9 | This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school . |
10 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
11 | Like other infant sciences , the science of international politics has been markedly and frankly utopian . |
12 | I believe that the Bill , as it goes to another place , has been properly and fully scrutinised on Second Reading and in Committee — as will be shown in Hansard . |
13 | ‘ Someone has been here and fairly recently . ’ |
14 | This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow . |
15 | The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model . |
16 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
17 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
18 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
19 | The prolific contemporary literature about Mary , which has been extensively and effectively reviewed by J. E. Phillips , Images of a Queen , was all understandable enough . |
20 | The notion of the fabliau being a form of linguistic game is one that has been extensively and productively explored in relatively recent scholarship . |
21 | In short , if agriculture is judged by the criteria of performance applied to manufacturing industry , there is every reason to argue that its output has been artificially and substantially inflated for the whole period since 1950 . |
22 | The ridged and tufted counterpane has been carefully and frequently laundered . |
23 | The first question begs many others — but those of us who are familiar with some of the history of the disabled people 's movement will recognise that today 's ‘ disability professionals ’ are on a career path which has been carefully and painstakingly carved out by generations of their predecessors . |
24 | It is at this ‘ point-of-sale ’ that consumers make their choice , a subject which has been carefully and extensively researched by Stoddard Templeton . |
25 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |
26 | During the last few years the notion of ‘ citizenship ’ has been increasingly and widely discussed amongst different constituencies addressing different aspects of the topic , with somewhat confusing consequences . |
27 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
28 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
29 | The drug , sulphadimidine , a prescription antibiotic used to control epidemics of respiratory disease in closely packed pig units , has been heavily and widely misused by UK farmers . |
30 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |