Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 2 | The decisions to which the hon. Gentleman refers are largely not for me . |
| 3 | The amounts which are claimed are frequently out of all proportion to the loss suffered but , since damages are awarded in some courts by the jury responding to the eloquent pleas of plaintiff 's counsel , the nearest million dollars seems to be not an unusual amount . |
| 4 | It 's an aircraft which has been rarely out of the headlines in it 's 25 years with the RAF . |
| 5 | The surprise choice for the New Zealand tour was Michael Bradley , a scrum-half who has been completely out of international reckoning over the past few seasons . |
| 6 | It is also evident from the available statistics that Sandy Lyle has been completely out of sorts with his game . |
| 7 | For a start , Murdo has been here before with his previous band , the cruelly ignored Cateran , and has no desire to repeat that experience . |
| 8 | This has been particularly so in the development of hydrophilic ( water soluble ) biomaterials . |
| 9 | But while the report has been detailed on closures and mergers , it has been less so on the specifics about how the shift to the community will be achieved . |
| 10 | The CME and SIMEX also obtained the exclusive licence to trade Nikkei stock index futures contracts outside Japan , but while this has been fairly successful on SIMEX , it has been less so in Chicago ( 881,000 contracts on SIMEX as against 61000 on the CME in 1990 ) . |
| 11 | Apart from its royal members , the number of Knights of the Garter is limited to twenty-four , and this restriction , coupled with the fact that since 1946 it has been once more in the personal gift of the monarch , makes its membership peculiarly exclusive . |
| 12 | The melody we have discussed in this chapter has been almost exclusively of a classical type . |
| 13 | Johnson ( 1971 , p. 283 ) points out that , historically , the emphasis ‘ in Britain has been almost exclusively on procedures which would enable Parliament to exercise a post facto check on the manner in which monies had been spent for the purposes approved by ( but not proposed by ) Parliament ’ . |
| 14 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 15 | Predictably the case-law has been almost wholly in the context of pre-trial discovery which is both of great importance in United States practice and most open to objection or misunderstanding in other countries . |
| 16 | Doug Scott has been there often over the past three decades . |
| 17 | He has been there now for over ten years . |
| 18 | The last matter relates to some possible supposed uncertainty about the plaintiff 's further education at school , as I have already noted it is expected that the plaintiff will remain at school until he is nineteen , he has been there now for three years . |
| 19 | SINCE she won the French championships three months ago , Monica Seles has been relatively out of form ( she 'll probably win the U.S. now I 've said that ) . |
| 20 | When at his best , which has been quite often in recent years , Woosnam is a wonderful player to watch , with the sort of swing that is a model for any youngster . |
| 21 | A small but increasing number of commentators would like to stop or turn back the clock and , in the absence of hard data , the debate has been perhaps more about political models of social care than about what works in practice . |
| 22 | Well , it just has not happened , and when they have decided on a theme , it has been so late at night that Ministers have not been told , ’ said one disgruntled insider . |
| 23 | This moment has been so long in coming , and yet I had thought that perhaps I might , just once … just once … ’ |
| 24 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 25 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 26 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 27 | You 'll see that both the number of requests for service , and the number of visits made are well up on previous half years , and although some of that is due to probably the highest figure on insect complaints we 've ever had for six months , and erm it 's not all that , much of it is lately the department has been very , very busy indeed . |
| 28 | The main advantage of Energy and the environment is that its rapid publication means that the information presented is as up to date as is possible in a book . |
| 29 | Let is now up to the Market Clock . |
| 30 | A geometric lock which requires no force to lock is seriously out of adjustment . |