Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all the walls and woodwork in the house are washed with colour — a technique which produces are more gentle effect than straight painting . |
| 2 | Extraordinary profits , you may be surprised to see are only twelve point nine million after the Elserver sale but that is a function of the write back of good will on the disposal of Elserver which you will see explained in the preliminary statement , thus reducing the er , profit from two hundred and twenty nine million , which was the estimate at the interim , to thirty five million for the year as a whole . |
| 3 | It has even been suggested that some coral reefs , which it will be recalled are mostly dead coral and debris , are being destroyed rather than built up : they could be relics of higher sea levels . |
| 4 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 5 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 6 | There has been wide public interest in international comparisons of schooling in recent years . |
| 7 | There has been most impressive progress in Sheffield . |
| 8 | To the astonishment of some , the nursery — opened just over a year ago — has been most popular option . |
| 9 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 11 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 12 | Pollitt believed that " there can be no real and effective People 's Front unless there has been already united action within the Labour Movement itself . " |
| 13 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 14 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 15 | Hair has been vertically spiral wound on large rods by Beverly Kyprianou at Cobella |
| 16 | Given the undoubted importance of deixis to philosophical , Psychological and linguistic approaches to the analysis of language , there has been surprisingly little work of a descriptive nature in the area , with a Consequent lack of adequate theories and frameworks of analysis . |
| 17 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |
| 18 | There has been surprisingly little comment as to why minority communities in New York , Chicago , Los Angeles and elsewhere , once poor but benign and culturally engaging , are now centres of terror and despair . |
| 19 | White Pudding , which also went round faster than the previous record , clocking 31.18 secs , is drawn in box four and the main danger to Kildare Slippy tomorrow could come from Run on King , which has been favourably allocated trap one . |
| 20 | Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them . |
| 21 | There has been precious little attention to giving basic education to the general public on the art of wise borrowing . |
| 22 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 23 | The South Korean government has been remarkably low key in its response , apparently intent not to inflame the situation . |
| 24 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 25 | It has been very poor weather this week and that influences traffic and pedestrians . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Our extension of Family Credit has been very successful helping over 350,000 people , ’ he said . |
| 27 | There has been very wide extension in the sense that a large number of new course options are being taught involving new specialisms . |
| 28 | Except in a few isolated instances , there has been little systematic planning in relation to most countries ' social welfare personnel training needs and resources and there has been very limited involvement in find some countries and schools of social work that have adopted a comprehensive approach to social service personnel training and development and are directing their efforts toward maximizing the contribution of all available human resources to their country 's or region 's social development goals . |
| 29 | It has been very good experience for my future career . ’ |
| 30 | However , there has been very little success with captive breeding and few of the cubs which are born survive past the first year . |