Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 2 | The results after small bowel grafting alone have been encouraging . |
| 3 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 4 | Yet hypnosis can produce seriously distorted memories which the witness nevertheless believes are true |
| 5 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 6 | When John Barton stirs it into life , ‘ the effect instantly produced was warm and glowing light in every comer of the room ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps the creature coming after Chant now had been responsible . |
| 8 | Kubrick was also responsible for casting Jean Simmons in the film when it became apparent that the actress originally chosen was inadequate . |
| 9 | Regeneration here has been impressive ; indeed , Sir Terence expects to build here again . |
| 10 | A recognisable conventional poetic strategy of indicating the power of verse to create lasting reputation , with the usual implication that what the poet actually desires is physical enjoyment of the transitory beauty , is here rendered unstable . |
| 11 | of the flocks in Chichester Harbour recently have been adult males . |
| 12 | Those boards which took the establishment of a training programme seriously have been able to contribute constructively to school decision-making . |
| 13 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 14 | The duplication and friction thus created was palpable . |
| 15 | He pointed out , however , that since Mr Brown had already ‘ gone public ’ , he could reveal that the council already had been successful in obtaining a court decree against the former MP . |
| 16 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 17 | The physical benefit is implicit in everything , but hardly explicit at all , and the benefit actually communicated is emotional . |
| 18 | It was originally a large , stout , hardy draught animal at a time when beef came mainly from plough oxen once they were no longer in prime working condition ( typical of meat production in many countries even now ) and was then developed as a triple-purpose draught , meat and milk type but it soon evolved into essentially a beef animal and in that role its influence worldwide has been immense and far-reaching . |
| 19 | Garau too had been lucky , to be charged with grievous bodily harm instead of murder . |
| 20 | Diesel always has been lead-free and the only adjustments you need to make are mental ones , because diesel-powered cars are no longer slow , smelly or noisy . |
| 21 | Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength . |
| 22 | The drift apart had been gradual . |
| 23 | Saving the world will not be cheap , but , then , security never has been cheap . |
| 24 | The term " dumb " really implies that the person so called is incapable of making himself understood by his fellow creatures . |
| 25 | I 'm an incredibly impatient person so travel is perfect , it never leaves you bored . |
| 26 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 27 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 28 | But the relationship thus defined was fraught with all manner of difficulties . |
| 29 | Erm in East Anglia erm sorry that 's , that 's true for the north and the south west , in East Anglia er output also has been flat erm but that seems to be related to weakness in export demand in the region erm export was the weakest er in that region of any region throughout the U K although total optimism is strong so it seems to be the case erm though business is being done the export economy erm in East Anglia . |
| 30 | Relations between the government and senior civil service also have been uneasy . |