Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure facing the monster is also horned and is thrusting his spear into a snake-like head , three arms droop down having been similarly despatched . |
| 2 | Absent apparently has been any appreciation of the unfortunate historical precedent when Britain last linked her economic fortunes to those of another nation . |
| 3 | However , the manner in which professional and other partnerships are to be taxed , and the equity and practicalities , both from a firm 's and its advisers ' viewpoints , appear not to have been thought through as thoroughly as one might have hoped . |
| 4 | Theories and information appear not to have been subjected to prior sorting and tumble forth from the pages , while the opinions of the authors remain submerged . |
| 5 | The questions that appear not to have been officially asked are to what extent will the projected gains accrue to areas already experiencing relative prosperity ; to what extent will these gains involve reductions in prosperity in underdeveloped/unfavoured regions and whether a transfer of some 4 per cent of the " net " gains is sufficient to compensate for such losses . |
| 6 | What what I propose not to do is to ask Mrs to read her summary . |
| 7 | The significance of either of these factors varied from site to site ; at times cults appear largely to have been promoted by the Church hierarchy , or by a small group with a precise , often family , interest in the new saint — this seems to be the norm for the development of the cults of the aristocratic saints of the seventh century . |
| 8 | There had been a number of Japanese businessmen in the town whose interests appear also to have been ‘ other than commercial ’ . |
| 9 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |
| 10 | Another consumer rights champion behind Safe-Buy is Lord Michael Winstanley who was for 18 years the presenter of Granada TV 's long-running ‘ This is Your Right ’ programme . |
| 11 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 12 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |
| 13 | One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims , although doctors ' legal defence bodies say there have been no such cases . |
| 14 | Police say there have been at least 50 armed robberies of tourists in the Orlando area so far this year . |
| 15 | Yesterday police questioned worshippers at a nearby church , but say there have been no new leads . |
| 16 | Maybe just a little front page you know wh look at the big revisions for the sales department or something like that instead of just , when you get a new telephone directory , putting it in your folder and binning the old one , make certain people realise there 've been changes . |
| 17 | Connections which appear subsequently to have been falsely conceived are rarely abrogated , but are usually just conveniently forgotten . |
| 18 | What Westminster MPs tend not to understand is that the beneficiaries of this process have not been their cousins in the Strasbourg Parliament , nor even the European Commission , but the Council of Ministers . |
| 19 | His version of You 'll never Walk alone has been immortlaised at Liverpool Football Club and raised hundreds of thousands after the Bradford fire . |
| 20 | There is a large number of further possible conceptions , but I hope enough has been said to indicate that a question such as ‘ Do you believe in God ? ’ may not be easy for the respondent to answer , and that , without further information , the answer is likely to be difficult for the researcher to interpret . |
| 21 | Several contracts put out to tender are reviewed for : the degree of competition in house tender faced , and the outcome in respect of total expenditure , the sources of cost savings , and redundancies . |
| 22 | As a recent Barnardo 's report on the plight of the young homeless states ‘ those young people who run away have been failed both by their families and by the society in which they live ’ ( O'Mahony , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps he had been moved by the bishop of Lucca 's protest , for among these anathemas he included two which seem not to have been discussed , but which were relevant to his protest . |
| 24 | In short , the whole business has been carefully planned , even though the other disciples seem not to have been privy to the arrangement . |
| 25 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 26 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
| 27 | I can still remember the intense excitement of ‘ listening in ’ to pre-war Nationals on Friday afternoons that , many years later , seem always to have been bathed in bright spring sunshine . |
| 28 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 29 | The four elements which together add up to have been combined to form the single variable , and C t is regressed on this single variable . |
| 30 | Trusts for performance seem also to have been enforced , at any rate where there was a public interest . |