Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [pron] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 2 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 3 | In the early 40s I remember being at the Hilker house off South Granville Street when Yehudi Menuhin was in town for a concert . |
| 4 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 5 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 6 | The Mental Health Act Commission found in 1987 that the requirements of section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 , which made after-care for those compulsorily detained the joint responsibility of health and social services , were not consistently fulfilled ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1987 ) , while section 7 of the Disabled Persons Act 1986 , which required after-care to be provided for all those who had been in hospital for more than six months , was never implemented . |
| 7 | A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day . |
| 8 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 9 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 10 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 11 | Ten of the twenty four who died were in a block of three storey flats ; children were among them , their bodies found in a nearby field . |
| 12 | The other older one had been in Chicago , moved to Washington less than a year back , and Erlich knew his name because he 'd the distinction of having run the sting in the Board of Trade 's soybean futures pit . |