Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Algerian ambassador to Iran was recalled on Jan. 18 , following what the Algerian Foreign Ministry claimed were unacceptable attacks by the official Iranian media which could harm " the sovereignty and unity " of the Algerian people . |
| 2 | One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real . |
| 3 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 4 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 5 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 6 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 7 | Another ambition has been financial reward , and it is a lucky man who escapes a conversation with Jackie without being reminded of his various positions , his bankers , his lawyers , his accountants and his courtiers . |
| 8 | Another group to contact is Phobic Action , Greater London House , 547 High Road , Leytonstone , London E11 4PR ( 081–558 3463/6012 ) . |
| 9 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 10 | While the ebb and flow to this point had been absorbing stuff , the ensuing capitulation was nothing short of astonishing , far more dramatic and conclusive than that suffered by England two years ago ; but still never totally unexpected on a pitch showing wear and uneven bounce in equal measure . |
| 11 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year . |
| 12 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year |
| 13 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 14 | Does he agree , however , that what my local authority wants is a wider authority for strategic services , for the delivery of those services , and that local authorities can group themselves as they see fit in providing what may be different services , but that what the hon. Gentleman wants is another tier of central Government , which will impose on the regions what central Government do ? |
| 15 | Since this centre has been open vandalism has ceased . |
| 16 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 17 | The British Government have been practising euthanasia on the British coal industry and the Rothschild report is about to take that even further . |
| 18 | But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones . |
| 19 | But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones . |
| 20 | He voluntarily relinquished it on the eve of seventy , the only man of this century to have been Prime Minister three times . |
| 21 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 22 | The prime movers in developing this structure have been larger firms who can expect favoured treatment in times of expansion , and can transfer adjustment burdens along a chain of subcontractors in recessions . |
| 23 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 24 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 25 | The average length of the colonic loop studied was 20 cm . |
| 26 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 27 | A moral conclusion drawn is that money is powerful but harmful , and that : ( … |
| 28 | Advocates of the audio-lingual method have been enthusiastic supporters of the language laboratory as a powerful aid in the automation of language responses . |
| 29 | To summarize , for a well flagged group of patients , with small solitary non-invasive transition cell carcinomas at d at diagnosis , and negative three month cystoscopy , we found eighty percent of our patients would certainly have come to no harm at all if their second cystoscopy had been one year from diagnosis . |
| 30 | The language of kinship and the behaviours which the use of such language provokes are social devices for giving expression to networks of relationship . |