Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.

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1 His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased .
2 The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ .
3 The results after small bowel grafting alone have been encouraging .
4 But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform .
5 In general practice the type of psychologist most used is the chartered clinical psychologist , many of whom have had specific training in psychotherapy .
6 As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services .
7 I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits .
8 The horse fair had been abandoned , the stalls cleared and the shops deserted .
9 The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back .
10 The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back .
11 Taylor , Walton and Young ( 1973 ) were highly critical of this example of behaviourist imperialism and claimed that the exclusion of all reference to subjective mental events which the take-over bid necessarily entailed was entirely alien to the whole spirit of differential association .
12 Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport .
13 The revenue so generated is used to service the pipeline 's project debt .
14 Gastric secretion thus corrected is referred to as Vg and is measured in ml/h .
15 In a later case in which service had been attempted in Belgium , the Belgian Central Authority certified that service had proved impossible , the defendant not having been found at the address given .
16 The two studies quoted giving positive results together with another positive major study not quoted were all of cognitive-behavioural therapy , in which a collaborative directive approach is encouraged .
17 Would the same result not have been obtained without the group ?
18 Yet hypnosis can produce seriously distorted memories which the witness nevertheless believes are true
19 Almost a century would elapse before the prejudice thus created was extinguished , and donors began freely to leave their bodies for medical research .
20 Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ .
21 It was on that date that the submission already described was made on behalf of the respondent , the defendant , as he then was , to Judge Holden .
22 JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand .
23 ‘ The heaviest pig ever recorded was a Poland-China hog named ‘ Big Bill ’ , who was so obese that his belly dragged along the ground .
24 The behaviour of lava once erupted is significantly affected by its viscosity , that is , its resistance to flow ( see Section 8.2.1 ) .
25 A line containing a stone circle and a pre-Reformation church , for example , has sites separated by perhaps three millennium — so how could the ley ever have been set out deliberately ?
26 Luke 's an influential and powerful man — the film industry always has been a glamorous lure for young , hopeful girls — and he 's wealthy too .
27 When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic .
28 For example , an option exercisable six months before the " expiry of the tenancy " might permit the tenant to exercise the option during any continuation tenancy ( under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24 ) ; conversely , an option exercisable six months before " the date on which the term hereby granted is expressed to expire " would not .
29 Example 3:11 Option to renew ( 1 ) The tenant may by notice in writing served not less than six months before the date on which the term hereby granted is expressed to expire call upon the landlord for a further lease of the demised property ( " the further lease " ) provided that up to that date he has paid the rent and reasonably performed and observed his covenants ( 2 ) The further lease shall be for a term of ten years from the said date upon the same terms and conditions as this lease ( save as to rent and as to this option for renewal ) and at a rent to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( 3 ) In determining the rent payable under the further lease the arbitrator shall have the same powers as would be enjoyed by the court determining a rent for the demised property under section 34 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and shall disregard the same matters as are therein specified ( 4 ) This option shall be of no effect if the tenant fails to register it as an estate contract within three months from the date of this lease Example 3:12 Option to renew contracted out tenancy If : ( 1 ) the tenant wishes to take a further tenancy of the demised property for a term of five years from the expiry date of the term hereby created ; and ( 2 ) the tenant gives written notice of his desire to the landlord not more than six nor less than three months before the expiry of the term ; and ( 3 ) up to the date of the notice the tenant has paid the rent and substantially performed his covenants ; and ( 4 ) the tenant joins with the landlord in making an application to the court for an order authorising the exclusion of the provisions of ss24-28 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 in relation to the further tenancy ; and ( 5 ) the court makes such an order then the landlord shall let the demised property to the tenant for a term of five years from the expiry of the term hereby created at a rent to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by arbitration and otherwise upon the terms of this lease ( except this option for renewal ) Example 3:13 Clause negativing perpetual renewal Nothing in this clause shall entitle the tenant to renew the tenancy for any term expiring more than twenty years after the beginning of the term of this lease
30 For what the sonnet also reveals is that the truth of verse is not only ornamental addition , it is all there is .
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