Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ enumerated articles ’ included most of the more important English imports from areas in the temperate zones and almost all the goods exported from the tropical and semi-tropical regions in which the colonies most committed to trade were to be found . |
| 2 | Heart valves can be removed very simply from the body up to three days after death … you do not need to have been on a life support machine … even heart attack victims can be suitable donors . |
| 3 | By virtue of this , there does not appear to have been in Ireland any large-scale persecution of heretics . |
| 4 | Now the other question I was just going to ask was on appendix er erm it 's oh yes here we are appendix five bottom of page two and it 's talking about the condition of people on the higher rates to residential homes in the area . |
| 5 | Heron can not have enjoyed being on his list but the prospect of negotiating with Mr Klesch can only encourage the company to settle quickly and generously . |
| 6 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |
| 7 | The chronicler does not seem to have been among them , although he does say that in 1006 the king and his councillors thought offering tribute distasteful . |
| 8 | The difficulty about regarding this as the whole story , however , is that the court does not seem to have been in doubt that the purpose of the additional charges was to prevent the release of the applicants , but it did not regard this as conclusive . |
| 9 | For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin . |
| 10 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 11 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 12 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 13 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
| 14 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 15 | One of the hardest and most expensive purchasing decisions we ever have to make is about buying a new home . |
| 16 | Those that are now appearing have been in the pipeline for at least two years , having been commissioned before the recession hit the publishing industry . |
| 17 | The opportunity you really want to take is on the other side of that wall and it will remain there until you manage to puncture your own pomposity . |
| 18 | Fears that the recovery might be running out of steam now seem to have been over done . |
| 19 | They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture . |
| 20 | Indeed , of the books of the Old Testament so far found to have been in use among the Qumran sect , with the exception of Isaiah and the Psalms , most are copies of Deuteronomy . |
| 21 | So she 's got her knuckles grazed , you 've cleansed it , put it into a drop of water , ra or else we 've used the Mediwipes or the end of the bandage okay , now we just cover it , okay , so it goes over , can you just straighten out your hand for me , it goes over the wound , okay and you can take this one that she can hold it for you just up there , right , now the rest of this just winds round , the only thing you really need to do is to just make sure that you leave the thumb out , cover up the bottom right and then come up towards the wrist , cover up the top of the pad , come back down again , leave the thumb out all the time , got the idea ? |
| 22 | " Mr. Stavanger — Captain stavanger , I should really say had been in the Royal Navy . |
| 23 | When SDLP leader John Hume met the IRA in 1985 he was taken to a house — widely believed to have been in the Republic — and after a wait of 28 hours was introduced to a man who said he was an IRA spokesman . |
| 24 | I 'm not quite sure yet cos we 're this chicken and egg which starts first I think we 're gon na look at a an an interim type report in year nine a quicker type report I ca n't remember what it 's , it 's written down in my other diary because what I do n't want to happen is to , people to have a onerous report at the end of year nine , cos they 're gon na have to do a report there now |
| 25 | All I did n't want to happen was for him to become violent , which I did n't think was ever on the cards . |
| 26 | ‘ Titron does n't appear to have been in port for over two years . |
| 27 | You do n't have to have been to college |
| 28 | I 've told them everything I could think of that might help , but so far it does n't seem to have been of any use . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
| 30 | They 've been in water but the bullet fits tightly in the cartridge case , and they do n't seem to have been in water long enough for much water to have got in to affect the charge . |