Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [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 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 14 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 17 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 18 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |
| 19 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 20 | He had missed his church very much indeed , but our Vicar and the Curate had been constant visitors , and we were both of us upheld by the knowledge of their prayers and of many friends at St Peter 's . |
| 21 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 22 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 23 | The area demised was Upper Langdale and Tilberthwarte , with Sir John reserving one-twelfth of the prepared ore as his Royalty , and this was in addition to his percentage of the profits , for he became a partner in the venture upon his own insistence ! |
| 24 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 25 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
| 26 | ‘ The river had been ten feet up the previous week and I thing the chub had been pushed into the swim , ’ said Mick , 33 . |
| 27 | Suddenly I was aware that all my actions since the attack had been aimless distractions — action for the sake of action . |
| 28 | The amount injected was 10 times the minimum amount of SIV required to infect and cause the Aids-like illness . |
| 29 | Azerbaijan accused Armenian forces of shooting down the helicopter , while Armenia claimed that the cause had been poor weather . |
| 30 | Forty perished and three years later the Scottish Parliament voted that the killing had been unlawful murder . |