Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [adj] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates based on demographic pressures , advances in medical technology and the costs of implementing new government policies ( such as the introduction of new screening programmes ) also have their drawbacks , but they represent a pragmatic way of estimating whether funding has been adequate to keep pace with demand pressures . |
| 2 | Mr Giuliani has been unable to focus voters ' attention on the fact that Mr Dinkins once went several years without paying his taxes , or that he is a product of a corrupt Democratic machine . |
| 3 | Since the standard housing of towns and cities has been unable to provide shelter , urban populations have been compelled to take the situation into their own hands and put up their own homes . |
| 4 | That is to say that their premium income has been insufficient to meet claims and the difference has therefore had to be met from investment income . |
| 5 | However , in both these instances the commercial pressure of the campaigning groups has been enough to effect change . |
| 6 | Over the past 15 years Allied Colloids has been able to achieve compound annual growth rates of over 20pc . |
| 7 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
| 8 | In the more elaborate tombs can be seen the manner of domestic interior design , for the rock has been hewn to imitate rafters and ridge-piece . |
| 9 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 10 | Previously , the Aquino administration had been reluctant to charge Marcos or his wife with a criminal offence , for fear that their presence in the country could provoke an uprising by their supporters . |
| 11 | Bernice had been unable to interpret Ace 's behaviour . |
| 12 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 13 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 14 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 15 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 16 | The delegation had been due to meet South Korean dissidents to discuss their possible attendance at a North Korean pro-unification rally due to be held at Panmunjom on Aug. 15 . |
| 17 | Since 1 August , the self-drive hire firms , private taxis and driving schools have been able to reclaim tax paid on cars purchased for their businesses . |
| 18 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 19 | But essentially the APSP units have been slow to gain acceptance because both the method of their development ( which offers choice and demands local initiative ) and the philosophy of their content — so unequivocably enquiry based — demand radically new approaches . |
| 20 | He and his department have been reluctant to discuss ideas for energy conservation , claiming that sulphur emissions from power stations have declined since 1979 ( and ignoring the fact that they have risen since 1984 , a side effect of faster economic growth ) . |
| 21 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
| 22 | Inspectors have been able to control elements of expenditure , although LMS will largely stop this . |
| 23 | The Bank of England which has less influence than its German counterpart has been reluctant to advise rate cuts over here . |
| 24 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 25 | By selling out when land values hit their peak in 1988 and then buying back at bargain levels later on , canny Pidgely has been able to slash house prices and still make a near-20% average profit per property . |
| 26 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 27 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 28 | But unlike Donald White , Hall had been able to turn fantasy into reality . |
| 29 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 30 | Thus during the worst crisis in British industrial history neither the labour movement nor its radical Left were able to take advantage of the situation . |