Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a delight to have Bishop Harris with us once more — he has only missed being present twice in 14 years . |
| 2 | Democracy should embody the popular will — ; ‘ every law which the people has not ratified is null , void is in fact not a law . |
| 3 | What the hon. Lady has just said is astonishing . |
| 4 | If what the hon. Gentleman has just said is true , surely it would mean that any Bill could be amended in almost any way in Committee , and one could subsequently play around with its title in order to accommodate the amendments . |
| 5 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 6 | Maple has a much tighter grain than mahogany and breakages are consequently far less common , so whether a neck like this needs further strengthening is debatable . |
| 7 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 8 | I think my husband 's hand has now stopped being numb from my squeezing ! |
| 9 | The ice champion , who has not had a lover since his AIDS was diagnosed , has never denied being homosexual . |
| 10 | Perhaps not very surprisingly , it turns out to have been pure hell - brutality intensified by stupidity . |
| 11 | It is an important matter because clearly if er if the matter er if the suspicion er turns out to have been reasonable but not to bear t further examination then an accountant er could find themselves in great difficulty er both with regard to pecuniary difficulty and also professional difficulty and it 's something the minister needs to look at . |
| 12 | If it turns out to have been effective — and it may not — it will have helped to return one member . |
| 13 | For every good read , like Harry Harrison 's Plague from Space I ( 1966 ) — in which an apparently natural infection turns out to have been tailor-made for Homosapiens by odious extraterrestrials — there are countless bum offerings . |
| 14 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |
| 15 | Self , worn down by the struggle , seems eventually to have been convinced that the measurement of divisional performance by budgetary control and other yardsticks was not possible . |
| 16 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 17 | Essentially , it appears only to have been willing to investigate the necessity for Community legislation to the extent that it has been alleged that the existing law already complied with the objectives of that legislation , i.e. to determine whether the Community legislation was redundant . |
| 18 | As always , much depended upon the ability and enthusiasm of the Master , and in this respect the School seems generally to have been fortunate . |
| 19 | His own farming seems not to have been profitable , however , perhaps because of his other activities ; he and his heirs sold off over 500 acres in the later seventeenth century . |
| 20 | In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources . |
| 21 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 22 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 23 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 24 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 25 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 26 | Where evidence is available , some kind of hereditary comital succession seems always to have been normal . |
| 27 | Killing people simply in order to satisfy hunger is hardly one of humanity s more endearing habits ( and anyway seems always to have been rare ) , but the consumption of dead heroes can be seen as a mark of respect , in that the eaters may hope to inherit some of the admired qualities of the deceased . |
| 28 | Although time seems always to have been important for Petrarch , he tended to value it even more as he got older because he realized that , as with other things , it becomes more precious as it becomes less plentiful . |
| 29 | The basis of the Babylonian calendar seems always to have been lunar . |
| 30 | The content of reports seems mainly to have been descriptive , as opposed to judgmental , 90 per cent of teachers thinking their reports to be fairly , or very descriptive . |