Example sentences of "[adv] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now opera has rarely been a naturalistic medium , and never an understated one . |
| 2 | There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader . |
| 3 | However , the main causes of parcels becoming damaged or going astray are the following : |
| 4 | Some children tend to insist that their models , cars , towers , etc. are the biggest , fastest or tallest and it is not always kind to suggest otherwise . |
| 5 | and since are a big potential one one ninety four I 've got down here . |
| 6 | On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition . |
| 7 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 8 | Clearly this policy option would not be open in the UK as long as there effectively are no statutory reserve requirements and it is up to banks to decide their own prudent ratio . |
| 9 | Far from being the concrete , it has always rather been the theoretical problem . |
| 10 | The last two summers have been very hot and dry , although this summer has luckily been a great deal better . |
| 11 | perhaps been a little bit dismissive of it because |
| 12 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 13 | However , by adept diplomacy , he was able to impose a form of pax Britannica on what had hitherto been a turbulent part of Africa and thereby maintain the conditions best suited for fostering trade . |
| 14 | There was further a need to replace what had hitherto been a haphazard method of payment by a more formalised scheme involving the payment of a specified sum on the completion of each flat . |
| 15 | What had hitherto been a sporadic , locally-based protest movement directed against specific wars thus acquired an international dimension of steadily increasing significance and coalesced around these two much broader issues which are of considerably more lasting and widespread concern . |
| 16 | The Treaty brings about the formal transformation of what has hitherto been an Economic Community into a Union which is mandated to act in many areas on behalf of its own citizens , and to claim their allegiance . |
| 17 | Beyond this , however , its origin has hitherto been an insoluble problem : the explicit evidence of the ancients is notoriously inadequate and various different theories have been constructed from it . |
| 18 | ’ As the influence of Cézanne grew , so that of Gauguin , who had hitherto been an important influence in the work of the Fauves , waned . |
| 19 | The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain . |
| 20 | A report published in Le Monde on Sept. 19 noted that Egypt 's earnings from workers overseas had hitherto been the main source of foreign exchange receipts , amounting to over $2,000 million per year , of which $500 million came from workers in Kuwait alone . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism . |
| 22 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Illustrated opposite are the classic Salade Niçoise and a delicious dish of lambs ' kidneys , sautéed in butter and served with a sauce flavoured with Dijon mustard . |
| 24 | It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside . |
| 25 | Ian , thanks ever so much , it 's not necessarily been an easy ride for you , but we 're glad to know you and we look forward to meeting you again . |
| 26 | Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket . |
| 27 | In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too . |
| 28 | On the contrary , the development of such instruments has only been a first step , preparatory to examining the reasons people differ on such traits . |
| 29 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |
| 30 | It had only been a brief talk and nothing improper was intimated . |