Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideology has been one major determining factor in the strategic approach adopted by unions . |
| 2 | Earlier this year the mission was greatly encouraged when one woman was led by God to donate £36,000 towards the Crisis Centre and since then there has been one other substantial gift of £1,000 . |
| 3 | Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest . |
| 4 | There has been one important non-technical change over the past few years . |
| 5 | One important consequence of the expansion of the capitalist world economy has been that individual economic actors ( like workers and entrepreneurs ) and collective economic actors ( like trade unions and TNCs ) have become much more conscious of the transnationality of their practices and have striven to extend their global influence . |
| 6 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 7 | Thus there has been some significant organizational development in the industry even since 1985 when Table 11.1 was drawn up . |
| 8 | Things go badly wrong when there has been some extreme untoward event such as a fire , an earthquake or a bomb , alternatively an unanticipated combination of faults may occur within the plant itself . |
| 9 | MY phone has been red hot this week with calls from Sainsbury investors . |
| 10 | What were to be built were three high-speed aerodynamic research aircraft to help develop America 's Supersonic Transport aircraft . |
| 11 | Mr Spencer was persuaded north as the press 's secretary , and dramatically expanded its output from some 20 academic titles a year to around 90 , an expansion achieved with an increase of only the Polygon staff to EUP 's 14 indefatigable full-time staff members . |
| 12 | For information relating to short times , two approaches that have been widely used are dynamic mechanical thermal analysis ( DMTA ) and dielectric thermal analysis ( DETA ) . |
| 13 | The only horsemen he could see were ten mounted French officers , but he knew the cavalry and guns could not be far behind . |
| 14 | Another champion fighter is Simon Bellettee from swindon … he 's kickboxing 's new british super welterweight king … |
| 15 | ‘ All I could see was this big black torpedo trying to bite my leg off ’ |
| 16 | There was a big rubber mark on Alain 's fairing , and all I could see was this big black torpedo trying to bite my leg off . ’ |
| 17 | Also employed were three specially-built full scale ship sections , two in Japan and one in Hawaii , for the effort . |
| 18 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 19 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |
| 20 | It may have been this subjective judicial approach which led to the strange result in Attwood . |
| 21 | In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay . |
| 22 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 23 | What the dispute pinpoints is that different social situations and considerations breed quite different sets of values , which can not be glibly conflated . |
| 24 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 25 | All it contained were four white English banknotes and an envelope . |
| 26 | The biggest incident in which he has been involved was tragic double fatal accident in which two young girls died . |
| 27 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 28 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 29 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 30 | The vertical angle at which a shot is taken is another important visual signal . |