Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] of [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Least disposed of all to complain were the Vietnamese , who pocket £2.6 million in hard currency from this sale and who in 1991 lifted a second wreck , this one jammed with late Ming Thai ceramics , off Phu Quoc Island . |
| 2 | Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] . |
| 3 | Some 50 of these had been ignited earlier in the war in an apparent attempt to use smoke to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 4 | A good many of these have been produced with the aid of a Biro . |
| 5 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 6 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |