Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 2 | Argentina has not been just any other market for British arms ; it has been one of Britain 's best customers in a long relationship . |
| 3 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 4 | THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette . |
| 5 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 6 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 7 | It will be obvious to the reader that the boundaries drawn and phraseology used above are just those of one group of workers . |
| 8 | In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 9 | This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell . |
| 10 | In terms of self-education or self-development ( or whatever term is used ) , the provision of educational material has always been very much part of the public library 's brief . |
| 11 | Industrial relations Although industrial relations , as measured by strikes , have improved , there has still been relatively little progress towards involving employees in the success of their enterprises — through profit-sharing , share ownership and structures of participation . |
| 12 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 13 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 14 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 15 | " He has n't been home all night , " I said , trying to keep the anxiety out of my voice . |
| 16 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 17 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 18 | Well I think , I think she 'll be that fed up being here all that time , she 'll be glad to get back to America to be quite honest with you Chris , what is there for her to do all that time ? |
| 19 | The ruins seen today are essentially those of the ‘ second ’ or ‘ new ’ temples , built in 1700 BC and destroyed in the Thera eruption of 1470 BC . |
| 20 | Racing and Ireland go together — it is said there are as many horses as people ( three and a half million ) — and racecourse crowds are extremely knowledgeable about the sport . |
| 21 | The list offered here is not a closed one ; the items put forward are simply those which have been found useful . |
| 22 | Sadly , some of the things we most look forward to eating as the weather warms up are just those which are likely to cause allergic reactions . |
| 23 | The craftsmen used throughout were almost all Italians . |
| 24 | This study has also shown there are significantly fewer EGF-positively staining endothelial cells in inflamed than in normal oesophageal mucosa , although the distribution of the EGF is similar in inflamed and normal mucosa . |
| 25 | After completion of assessment , cases are kept open , though with fewer re-assessment episodes , and of those which are closed there are relatively few re-referrals . |
| 26 | All the opportunities to do so are there this September — in fact , around the time of the New Moon on the 19th you will be celebrating some kind of moral as well as financial victory . |
| 27 | And see he finished up being just that . |
| 28 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 29 | What must be noted here is that much of the strength of the political ethos propagated in prewar years rested on its incorporation and distortion of concepts and assumptions whose origins were far back in Japanese history , and which were broadly unquestioned by the majority of the population ; and that it was firmly integrated with the social system and standard code of morality and behaviour . |
| 30 | The number of people laid off was proportionately less than from some other record companies . |