Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 32 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 33 | The size of the basic Umwelt ( environment ) model has been increased to 1.9 litres , which has put up power output from 60 to 75 bhp . |
| 34 | It has been increased by 27 posts . |
| 35 | For 1992 the dividend has been increased from three kroner to five ( 50p ) to sweeten shareholders , including many in Scotland who subscribed for the rights issue last year at 175 kroner . |
| 36 | Mention has been made of two considerations relevant to the internationality test , namely simplicity and maximization of the scope of the Convention . |
| 37 | If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans . |
| 38 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 39 | The initial problem is that Major is a Conservative and Clinton is a Democrat , and although party differences are not necessarily a bar to a good relationship , the problem has been compounded by two incidents during the US election campaign . |
| 40 | The Mill has been renovated after 12 years of doing nothing . |
| 41 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 42 | Print Quarterly , based in London , has been publishing for ten years . |
| 43 | No compensation for delay in delivery is payable unless a reservation has been sent within 21 days to the carrier . |
| 44 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 45 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
| 46 | At All Saints and St Barnabas the difficulty of a comparatively small total area of existing windows failing to light adequately a much increased area of floor-space has been overcome in two ways . |
| 47 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 48 | A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests . |
| 49 | Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it . |
| 50 | THE anniversary of the Gulf War ceasefire has been commemorated by 35 members of the Darlington Gulf Support Group who gathered in the town hall . |
| 51 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 52 | Associative learning , often called conditioning , has been studied in two forms , illustrated by Pavlov 's dogs , and pigeons learning to peck at discs in order to be fed . |
| 53 | And the new boss of Burton , Laurence Cooklin , has been sacked after 15 months with a £773,00 pay-off , with more to come . |
| 54 | The actual construction of factories has been delegated to two agencies : the Industrial Estates Corporation , responsible for rural areas that are also assisted areas in terms of regional policy ( such as parts of Scotland , Wales , the North and the South West ) , and COSIRA , responsible for the remainder of the country . |
| 55 | That option has been rejected by two members , however — the noted mountaineer Eric Langmuir , who serves on the north-east board of SNH , and John Hunt , reserves manager for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 56 | Vellayati said afterwards , however , that " it has been impossible to propose any plan as each attempt has been rejected by one side or the other " . |
| 57 | Ministers will continue to review every case where a life sentence prisoner has been detained for 10 years . |
| 58 | GALLAGHER and Lyle , one of the biggest musical acts of the '70s , has been reunited after 12 years . |
| 59 | Since much of the research done in Britain has been influenced in one way or another by linguistic research in the Caribbean , it will be necessary to refer to some of the theoretical approaches to the language situation there . |
| 60 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |