Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 2 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 3 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 4 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 5 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 6 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 7 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 8 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 9 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 10 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 11 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 12 | Disco offered an alternative to rock 's boy-meets-girl party conventions and Britain 's dance-floor poseurs , Bowie boys , and girls initially , became the New Romantics , a movement spawning such ambiguous and even asexual stars as Boy George and Marilyn . |
| 13 | But some are also saying , it 's been a missed opportunity to make a more radical shake up to a shadow cabinet where some members performances have been notable lack lustre . |
| 14 | Members of the Worcester Park Machine Knitters Club have been busy knitting items for the Special Care Baby Unit at Kingston Hospital in Surrey . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 16 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 17 | Allowing the child to play is one way parents will have used of spooning food into the child 's mouth . |
| 18 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 19 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 20 | Not only does this mean that science is handled by a senior member of the Canadian cabinet — a tax lawyer who once said that the last thing that Canada needs is more tax lawyers — but also it means that science and technology are seen as a part of the process of economic development . |
| 21 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 22 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 23 | In many cases the consequence has been large scale redundancy , and a reduction in size , or contraction , of the organisation . |
| 24 | For more than 40 years , Don Williams has been growing Christmas trees at Leigh Sinton farms near Malvern . |
| 25 | Mr Misunderstood 's freshest vinyl confection since ‘ Suedehead ’ , a similarly streamlined pop gem . |
| 26 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 27 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 28 | An important point to consider is that Local Authority Environmental Health Officers have shown a keen interest and are anxious to adopt the handbook as their working code when dealing with funeral premises . |
| 29 | The differences in history , theology and practices , combined with historic jealousies and denominational structures which prospered as membership grew were enormous stumbling blocks . |
| 30 | Other Italians to watch are 24-year-old Massimiliano Lelli and especially Franco Chiccioli , nicknamed ‘ little Coppi ’ . |