Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
| 2 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 3 | Because of its size it has rarely been on view there this century . |
| 4 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The boy was arrested and has since been in care because of ill-feelings in Mrs Fort 's community . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( The simplicity of geometric design at Withington , however , is much are in keeping with that of the mosaics at Newton St. Loe ) . |
| 12 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 13 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 14 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 15 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 16 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 17 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 18 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 20 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 21 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 22 | I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call |
| 23 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 24 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 25 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 26 | If we have only been on cover for a short time and it is clear that the majority of the damage occurred before we came on cover , the claim should be referred to the previous insurers . |
| 27 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 28 | Struggling to make himself heard above the chants of the crowd , the manager said : ‘ I have only been on Teesside for ten months , but thank you for making it memorable so far . |
| 29 | The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas . |
| 30 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |