Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 2 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 3 | In other words the money spent was one way of stopping ‘ leakage ’ to other denominations ; the new chapels also tended to enhance loyalty and to lessen disaffection over trifling matters . |
| 4 | The wafer had been three inches long and one and a half inches wide , and had been inserted between the two strands of leather precisely against the young man 's backbone . |
| 5 | In other words , the graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend . |
| 6 | The graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend |
| 7 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 8 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 9 | The implication of it relating strictly to tariff involves an assumption that the tariff advised was 17 years ' detention as punishment for retribution and deterrence . |
| 10 | The parameters established were good predicators , and the more the cultural barriers to adjustment , the less the satisfaction in these countries . |
| 11 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 12 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 13 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 14 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 15 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 16 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 17 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 18 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 19 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 20 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 21 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 22 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 23 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 24 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 25 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 26 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 27 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 28 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 29 | Certainly the Armstrongs had been famous Border Reivers , or cattle rustlers , in the Debatable Land of Border Ballads and Sir Walter Scott 's romances . |
| 30 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |