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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the hardest and most expensive purchasing decisions we ever have to make is about buying a new home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fears that the recovery might be running out of steam now seem to have been over done . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | " Mr. Stavanger — Captain stavanger , I should really say had been in the Royal Navy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Stubbs points out , for instance , that many of the confusions for children acquiring literacy arise because these children are not yet familiar with some of the purposes for which writing is used and the conventions through which these purposes are articulated in their culture : ‘ many of its functions are often so specialised and particular ’ that they are ‘ mostly quite beyond children 's experience ’ and ‘ many of the situations which conventionally require writing are of a fairly specialised and restricted kind ’ ( ibid. p. 108 ) . |
| 18 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 19 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 20 | JEAN-MARIE Yacoubou , a former prisoner of conscience in Benin , told the Hammersmith & Fulham Group recently that he could never have imagined being among the people with whom he had corresponded while in prison . |
| 21 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 22 | However , on several other occasions the Kuwaiti authorities have denied holding individuals who were subsequently found to have been in incommunicado detention . |
| 23 | They were not Harry 's creation : they were too recently generated to have been from him . |
| 24 | Tim would almost certainly deny having been on board and there was already no one to corroborate her story about the disturbance in the lounge . |