Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case . |
| 2 | and er , I get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see T N T Express has been rather than a depot . |
| 3 | The Law Society , though not the courts , will hold a solicitor personally liable ( as a matter of professional conduct ) on an undertaking given by him on behalf of a third person unless any such liability has been sufficiently and clearly disclaimed . |
| 4 | So it 's been no different dying through time , the counsel has been there because Jehovah knows that we 're all of falling flesh are n't we ? |
| 5 | This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school . |
| 6 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 7 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 8 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 9 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
| 10 | The material facts are that , some time before the notice was served , the defendant had been knowingly and actively permitting the house to be used as a brothel … |
| 11 | I stripped off , laid my clothes out to dry in the sun , and cooled myself in the loch ; then , standing on a rock , I surveyed the magnificent view , sure that the effort involved in reaching the loch had been more than repaid by its utter peace and serenity . |
| 12 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 13 | Dot had been away and now she had come back . |
| 14 | Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time . |
| 15 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 16 | Where a child has been seriously and deliberately injured by his parents the court may consider that a care order would still be in his best interests although a suitable placement can not be found immediately . |
| 17 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 18 | Where the information supplied to the Council has been less than adequate , discussions at meetings between representatives of bodies and the Council 's members and officers have been helpful in enabling the Council to obtain more of the information it wishes to have to assist it in determining the grant offer . |
| 19 | The timing of debates which took place in the House of Commons on proposals which the European Legislation Committee advised were legally or politically important was dependent on the Government . |
| 20 | Pupils had found that the amount of work involved was more than half an Alevel and felt the exams had not proved credible with employers and higher education institutions . |
| 21 | It was as though the village had been underground and now , as it surfaced , the space was dazzling . |
| 22 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 23 | The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ . |
| 24 | Sadleir arrived at Qatif on 21 June at a time when no European had been more than a few miles inland and no maps existed of the interior . |
| 25 | The vocabulary required is rapidly and easily established through interaction between signers , clearly with a shared grammar , recourse to mime and a percentage of shared vocabulary . |
| 26 | Certainly the extent of response from the public in lobbying their MPs and sending petitions to Parliament or the MoD has been above and beyond anything that the mandarins could have expected . |
| 27 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 28 | The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 29 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 30 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |