Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A party of Teesside journalists have recently been on a fact-finding tour of ICI 's Group Environmental Laboratory at Brixham , Devon . |
| 2 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 3 | German supporters have also been on the rampage . |
| 4 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 5 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 6 | Media spend on the personal care brands through LH-S totalled just over £1m , but the brands have historically been worth much more . |
| 7 | Neither Gran nor my parents have ever been in Italy . |
| 8 | I conducted the First Symphony during the war but the first two symphonies have always been for me a little to close to Tchaikovsky . |
| 9 | I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves . |
| 10 | His concerns have consistently been with education and with youth . |
| 11 | Rationalists and moralists have always been at least a little uneasy about admitting that so much that they most value comes out of the vast area of human behaviour which shares the spontaneity of physical events . |
| 12 | What happens , what other effects have there been as a result of protectionism in agricultural trade ? |
| 13 | Pre-twentieth-century poetic texts have commonly been at the core of syllabuses in the older universities , whereas the novel and more contemporary writing are commonly at the centre ( or at least imagined by many in the academic establishment to be the centre ) of course structures within the newer universities and polytechnics , institutions which are also usually viewed as less socially elite . |
| 14 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 15 | The secretiveness of the Alien Office 's work makes it difficult to provide details of Brooke 's activities : ‘ My duties have ever been of the most confidential nature , ’ he wrote to R. B. Jenkinson , second Earl of Liverpool , in 1809 . |
| 16 | The last rule may sound rather trite but desktop publishing is unlike any other business use of computers , it 's a blend of art , craft , rules of thumb and a whole load of experience most businessmen have never been in a position to acquire . |
| 17 | With so many ‘ mature ’ players playing in the Whaddon strip over the years , varicose veins have often been in evidence . |
| 18 | Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ . |
| 19 | These , mostly one-day , workshops have occasionally been with a whole school staff ( primary , secondary and special schools ) and more often with teachers of particular types — probationers , English teachers , science teachers , senior teachers in charge of probationers , deputies and heads on DES management courses , primary heads in one county and one LEA 's entire Inspectorate . |
| 20 | Tory Governments have always been about creating a two-tier educational system . |
| 21 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 22 | Indeed , had Fei Yen not been in the boat , he would have allowed himself to concede that Wu Tsai was herself quite beautiful . |
| 23 | Wytch Farm managers have also been on a teambuilding exercise — but instead of sailing on water , however , they went to ground ! |
| 24 | The 1988 social security changes have always been on the agenda of the project and with the abolition of additional requirements and single payments , new sources of support must be found for the core families . |
| 25 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 26 | Property rights have also been in issue in Australian courts , but there are two major differences with the American cases . |
| 27 | Although isotope studies have always been at the heart of the deep-mantle recycling hypothesis , previous analyses have focused on radiogenic isotope variations ( those that result from radioactive decay , such as the isotopic composition of Sr and Nd ) ; Woodhead et al . |
| 28 | The research company Mintel estimates that the business-to-business incentives and promotions market alone is worth a staggering £1.32 billion , while the Institute of Sales Promotion values overall expenditure at over £7 billion . |
| 29 | Our rent levels have always been in line in the case of tenants guidelines and I of course there were savings that about is insufficient in in in areas . |
| 30 | But , if women 's bodies have always been at the forefront of discussions about painting and sculpture , it was women 's bodies seen and portrayed by men that were dominant . |