Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 2 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 3 | This capacity — for emotional honesty and willingness to risk being hurt and acceptance of the need to make changes as a result of appropriate feedback — is rare . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , Tom Gibson 's excellence as a plastic surgeon , collaborative bio-engineer and teacher have been noted , and innumerable patients and young surgeons worldwide have cause to remember him with gratitude and affection . |
| 5 | Parental prompts and encouragement to eat are highly correlated to the relative weight of the child and increasing probability that the child will eat . |
| 6 | By the end of the year universal support and enthusiasm had been received . |
| 7 | The great bulk of German artillery and manpower had been assembled in the area due north of Verdun between the River Meuse and the Woevre , a boggy plain . |
| 8 | But , while social programmes continue to pay for the largesse for defence , scientific research and development has been spared . |
| 9 | Following an agreement with the St Lucian government , electronic equipment and chandlery have been granted duty-free status . |
| 10 | The worship group had continued to hold informal meetings and a weekly newssheet and coffee had been introduced . |
| 11 | I do not think this grouping or group let is yet a class either in itself or for itself and it may never become one . |
| 12 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 13 | But this brutality and coercion has been seen not merely as a question of physical or ‘ external ’ coercion or constraint ; the force of subjection has also been seen as a psychic one , invading women 's very selves . |
| 14 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 15 | Strongest connections are with commercial stations but progress has been slowed due to the continuing uncertainty over franchises . |
| 16 | As far as social policy is concerned , four main ways of different importance and popularity have been cited : expenditure on the social services has used up labour and capital which would have otherwise been employed in the wealth-creating manufacturing industries — this is the de-industrialisation thesis . |
| 17 | Where a counterclaim ( or set-off and counterclaim ) are transferred to the High Court but judgment has been given on the claim save for the question of set-off , execution is stayed thereon until the proceedings transferred to the High Court have been concluded , unless the High Court otherwise orders ( s 42(2) ) . |
| 18 | Old age and retirement have been associated with poverty throughout history . |
| 19 | The original commitment to high quality and reliability has been reinforced , leading to the investment of millions of pounds in new products and new technology . |
| 20 | Reduced growth in fetal life and infancy has been linked with an increased risk of developing impaired glucose tolerance in adult life . |
| 21 | For many centuries a ‘ god ’ in some form or other has been called upon to heal the sick when doctors and others , using all knowledge , power and skill available to them have failed . |
| 22 | About 1950 a small breeding population re-established itself in central Sussex and breeding has been regular since , although little increase has occurred . |
| 23 | The essential point , moreover , is that the ‘ Hooligan ’ style was recognisable to their contemporaries ( and presumably to themselves ) as a distinctive mode of attire , thus helping to form the feeling which was struggling to give itself expression in other areas , that too much freedom and affluence had been given to the working class at the turn of the century . |
| 24 | In an age of secularization , in which religious myths have been ruthlessly unmasked and in which parricidal revolt and protest has been directed as much against God as against other father-surrogates , it is not surprising that a regressive current of feeling , comparable to that which sustained the Neolithic goddess-cults , no longer finds an obvious religious expression . |
| 25 | In 1987 , the committee of research scientists advised suspended use of such food packaging materials " until appropriate toxicological testing and evaluation have been performed " . |
| 26 | This Reformed or Calvinist doctrine of grace and salvation was clearly reflected in Cranmer 's Forty-Two Articles of Faith issued in 1553 ; Article Seventeen in particular declared : ‘ predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God ’ , and it went on to imply that individual salvation and damnation had been decreed at the beginning of creation , even before the Fall of Adam and Eve . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 28 | The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers . |
| 29 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 30 | But for about a year certain pieces of late Roman coinage and art have been cropping up in unexpected places in the international market . |