Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have , of course , latterly been essentially running the club for our own benefit . |
| 2 | Objection may also be taken to the new offences on the ground that rape has arguably been substantially downgraded as a crime where aggravating factors do not exist . |
| 3 | Deoxynucleoside triphosphates ( dNTPs ) and salts and buffer to allow the enzyme to work properly are also included . |
| 4 | In the same way , the ‘ Observer ’ , which acclaimed ‘ an evening of theatrical magic ’ , was the ‘ Quantock Observer ’ ; and the ‘ Mail ’ , who had ‘ rarely been so entertained ’ was the ‘ Western Mail ’ . |
| 5 | As Meisel observes correctly , merely to state that the number of those who hold power in any given society is fewer than those who do not , is to state a truism which has rarely been sensibly denied , but which explains little . |
| 6 | Occasional collective efforts by prisoners to improve their lot have mostly been sharply put down . |
| 7 | Much of it was of the Louis XIV period ( which has a much more limited market than Louis XVI furniture ) , and in contrast to the freshness of the Patiño lots , had mostly been recently bought at high prices . |
| 8 | This last scene is obviously important to Finn , whereas the brushes with death etc. are almost put as ‘ by the ways ’ ! |
| 9 | Behaviour , development , appearance , social role , etc. are still judged against a ‘ given ’ of social norms accepted as appropriate goals by the professional and the task is to bring the ‘ deviant ’ individual into line as far as possible , by modifying or repackaging or both . |
| 10 | Even if social analysis is something which everyone does , those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur . |
| 11 | In addition , the semantic analyser has since been successfully applied to other text recognition applications ( notably OCR systems ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 13 | Outside and below the four official castes there existed the outcasts or untouchables ( eta or hinin ) , a sizeable group , who , while racially Japanese , had long since been strictly segregated from the remainder of society . |
| 14 | These assessments have since been largely discredited . |
| 15 | In Gabon halofantrine came on the market three years ago and has since been widely used . |
| 16 | The STJ reported that " the small section [ i.e. the women 's breakaway union ] as has since been openly admitted , was formed and organised under a " West End " [ of Edinburgh ] suffragette banner … |
| 17 | In the 1850s a wing was added to the house ( which has since been neatly demolished ) , with twenty-two bedrooms . |
| 18 | He has since been well cared for by Huyton officers . |
| 19 | Moreover , a number of materials developed by the project have since been commercially published and are in use in Nigeria . |
| 20 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 21 | It has since been retrospectively enlarged , going back to 1754 for North America , and progressively completing coverage for other countries , particularly European geology . |
| 22 | It has since been retrospectively enlarged , going back to 1754 for North America , and progressively completing coverage for other countries , particularly European geology . |
| 23 | And Mr Howard Brown ’ ( Morse hesitated ) ‘ has given a full and fairly satisfactory account of his own whereabouts that afternoon , an account which has since been substantially corroborated . ’ |
| 24 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 25 | The group lost £1.368m last year and has since been radically slimmed down to three operating subsidiaries — banking , a Channel Islands fiduciary management business and NSR . |
| 26 | Palermo Cathedral , begun in 1135 , is the largest of the Norman royal buildings on the island but it has since been much altered . |
| 27 | This is the argument of Epicurus the Greek , whose teachings have since been much corrupted . |
| 28 | I am glad to say that this act of faith has since been amply rewarded and the blazer 's fit is perfect . |
| 29 | Further downstream is Flaxley Mill which , by the 1950s , was in a poor state of repair , but has since been fully restored , now forming the headquaters of an electronics company . |
| 30 | The goings on are hardly lightened by the rule that cross-examination questions have to be submitted beforehand as well , so the answerers know what 's coming . |