Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most striking have been the experiments that show that the presence of the neutral weak interaction in addition to the electromagnetic interaction does indeed lead to a parity violation in electron proton scattering and in certain transitions in heavy atoms . |
| 3 | In two decades remarkably little has been done to alleviate the conditions of some of the poorest city citizens , who personified the unacceptable face of the urban crisis , even if the terms of the debate itself have changed dramatically . |
| 4 | Much has been written about the subject in terms of the various packages , both actually available and merely promised , but remarkably little has been conveyed about their actual usefulness for the businessman . |
| 5 | Among the most celebrated had been Nadia Comaneci , the former Olympic gymnast , who had fled Romania in November . |
| 6 | One of the most popular has been carnelian , which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide . |
| 7 | I know that the members and friends that visited the church premises on our recent open day were extremely grateful to have been shown around by Ronnie and his team . |
| 8 | They confirmed that of those many companies within the United Kingdom , only 850 have been granted permission — of which an exclusive six are in the business of carpet manufacturing . |
| 9 | So strong have been the influences here — of progressivism with its romantic view of childhood 's vision , of anti-industrialism , of egalitarianism which has democratized art in every form , of therapy — that the great majority of educators wish to encourage pupils ' growth through creativity . |
| 10 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |
| 11 | How long that takes is entirely a matter for the legal proceedings in Ireland.It 's dependent on them . |
| 12 | I wonder how long that 's been there ? ’ |
| 13 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 14 | The ‘ state of the art ’ of soil conservation is clearly in a sorry mess : ‘ The need for soil conservation was emphasised by Bennett ( 1955 ) , Jacks and Whyte ( 1939 ) and many others … but so little has been achieved that most recent reports … are virtually undistinguishable in factual content and sentiment from the earlier studies . ’ |
| 15 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 16 | It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto . |
| 17 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 18 | So that has been the company 's three-pronged strategy in the past year . |
| 19 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |
| 20 | So that 's been changed out of that . |
| 21 | So that 's been the biggest lesson for me . |
| 22 | So that 's been very important , economies of scale are very important in the erm , the growth of manufacturing trade , which is essentially an increase in intra , in intra industry trade , as , as opposed to inter industry trade which is erm the simultaneous import and export of er products from different industries like produce capital goods , so cars and in return you will import erm food products but the majority of the increase in world trade has come from this intra industry variety . |
| 23 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 24 | So that 's been another step forward I think , in the whole progression , of the Fire Service . |
| 25 | If the wrong agreed on itself amounts to a tort against the plaintiff perhaps little has been lost by the restriction of conspiracy , for the combination must be carried into effect to cause damage and then the substantive tort is committed . |
| 26 | Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC . |
| 27 | Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel . |
| 28 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 29 | After one or two months , most of the SO 2 has been oxidized to sulphate ; the efficiency of these two mechanisms then becomes negligible ( although ozone remains perturbed in the lower stratosphere because of its long photochemical lifetime in this region ) . |
| 30 | Of the 69 coarse ware vessels described in this Report , only 12 have been given any indication of date and most of these refer to Wroxeter and Newstead parallels . |