Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | concepts of career , ‘ job satisfaction ’ , ‘ vocation ’ etc. are central to this . |
| 2 | Generally the following excuses etc. are pertinent to this offence : |
| 3 | Due to the preoccupation of investigators with the issue of hemispheric asymmetry this most important problem has hitherto been immune from serious experimental attack . |
| 4 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 5 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 6 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 7 | The McofS has only been involved with two developments so far ( The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the Leisure Centre in Dundee — currently being built ) . |
| 8 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 9 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
| 10 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 11 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 12 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 13 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 14 | Lead-free petrol has of course only been popular in recent years . |
| 15 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 16 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 17 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 18 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 19 | Both environmentalists and public health groups have long been worried about toxic discharges from paper mills using chlorine bleach . |
| 20 | I have long been interested in military technology so I was determined to attend the presentation . |
| 21 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 22 | A small , mountainous country with a population of under three million people , it has long been free from colonial domination . |
| 23 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 24 | The recommendations outlined below are applicable to temperate areas of the northern hemisphere , but the principles can be adapted to local conditions elsewhere . |
| 25 | The roots below are whitish to black , according to the age of the plant . |
| 26 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 27 | Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London ( particularly Imperial College ) universities have all been involved in major research projects in this area , although the major structural problems had been elucidated in 1906 by scientists from the then Geological Survey of Scotland ( Peach and others . |
| 28 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 29 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 30 | Different hands have obviously been involved in this great polyptych . |