Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Stoddard Mercia 's largest and most prestigious contracts this year has been to supply the entire public area carpeting for Edinburgh 's hotel ‘ The Balmoral . ’ |
| 2 | In each case ozone-poor air had been blown over the city after the annual break-up of the Antarctic ozone hold at the end of the southern spring . |
| 3 | Nonetheless welfare provisions for school children had made progress during the 1930s although because of the frequent economic crises this progress had been rather erratic . |
| 4 | In some cases extra support has been unnecessary . |
| 5 | In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI . |
| 6 | WILLSFORD , whose careful preparation this season has been timed to bring him to his peak on Martell Grand National day , will carry maximum stable confidence at Liverpool today . |
| 7 | For some months that canvassing has been echoed , somewhat surprisingly , both by Keith Rowlands , the Welsh secretary of the IRB , and by Ray Williams , the tournament director in 1991 . |
| 8 | In Devon , in particular , both private and public sector new housing has been predominantly in the larger settlements , especially those within commuting distance of the main urban centres ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 9 | A further requirement governing consent has been imposed by statute . |
| 10 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 12 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 13 | Unfortunately in its detailed behaviour this model has been found to be insufficiently flexible ( [ PGC ] Sections 4.6 & 5.4.1 ) It is also worth noting that an n-point data set can be fitted perfectly ( i.e. with no error ) by an ( n-1 ) degree polynomial . |
| 14 | In this paper particular mention has been made of the application of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy to depression . |
| 15 | In this respect particular attention has been paid to the giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn . |
| 16 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 17 | Countless pieces of high tech electronic equipment have been used in the construction of the Taste Sensation sequence , which runs on a continuous programme and lets six new visitors in at two minute intervals . |
| 18 | Clairol 's Free Curl heated styler has been designed with moving style in mind — it 's a cordless , gas powered appliance which has been OK 'd in the checked-in luggage on planes so it goes wherever you do . |
| 19 | Sometimes ‘ might is right ’ has been accepted as a legitimate form of political power , whereas at other times and in different societies hereditary succession has been accepted as the legitimate source of political power . |
| 20 | It is not easy to judge from the vantage-point of the late twentieth century , for in the second half of this century rural life has been more profoundly transformed than at any time since the invention of agriculture . |
| 21 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 22 | Until the sixteenth century most iron had been produced in ‘ bloomeries ’ , rough hearths where the iron ore was melted in what amounted to puddles ; it could only produce the metal in lumps in small quantities . |
| 23 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 24 | Bad news had a habit of springing ghastly surprises , the way that shattering news about her mother had sprung the cruellest surprise of all … the way her foolish idyll last night had been ruthlessly shattered this morning … |
| 25 | For some time financial control had been in the hands of a receiver after the Leeds City company was wound up . |
| 26 | If the match takes place — some time next month has been suggested — it will provide ideal circumstances under which Andy Roxburgh , the national coach , may watch Costa Rica for the first time . |
| 27 | In this connection considerable thought has been given to the nature and magnitude of the resulting biologically effective radiation dose to the general population . |
| 28 | The controversial £5 million layout had been put on hold after the Bellgrove accident , in which two people died . |
| 29 | The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change . |
| 30 | The complex factors involved have finally been established , and at last a truly effective anti skin ageing treatment has been created — Tuenda by RVB . |