Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total money raised was £101.70 . |
| 2 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 3 | Told that the total amount missing was £37 million , but that the report seemed to suggest that £16 million was due to various errors , accounting procedures , and normal mistakes in transferring data into the computer , Mr Sheldon said a very high-powered body of Government specialists was on hand to offer advice on computerised activities . |
| 4 | But however much that sense of a local spiral of depression exists , there is an ever-present sense that the economic crisis has been part of broader international changes and problems . |
| 5 | Closer to such history in terms of the narrative skill required is hagiography . |
| 6 | In this situation during anaesthesia the laryngeal mask has been life saving . |
| 7 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 8 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 9 | Let the old school tie be rent |
| 10 | Where there are dramatic differences of incidence for different groups , where the social pattern investigated is simplex ( for example , class difference only ) , and where the differences virtually always tend in the same direction , it is often unnecessary to test for significance , because the patterns revealed are so clear that no one could believe they are the results of pure chance . |
| 11 | A little bit of each ( Janet maintained ) could do no possible harm , unsure as Shirley was whether the offending insect had been wasp , bee , gnat , flea , or mosquito . |
| 12 | The actual sum awarded was £12 million . |
| 13 | The average amount retained was £139.18 , which , on average , was 2 per cent . |
| 14 | The average amount retained was £1,080.24 , which , on average , was 7.73 per cent . |
| 15 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 16 | It is clear that the proximate cause has been government action . |
| 17 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 18 | Engineers from Tarbes went to Texas , flew the 301 , and rejected it : there was no way to attain such performance even with an updated 301 , even though the basic idea had been sound . |
| 19 | Both the first church and the present church have been Memorial churches . |
| 20 | Whereas the role of the astronomer within the Ptolemaic tradition had been custodian of mathematical , predictive devices , Copernicus transformed that role by importing physical arguments into the astronomer 's domain , thereby raising questions about the real motion of the earth . |
| 21 | The secondary antibody used was rabbit antibody to human immunoglobulin heavy chains conjugated with fluorescein isothiocynate isomer 1 ( FITC ) ( DAKO , High Wycombe , UK ) . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War . |
| 23 | The short answer to counsel 's submission , founded on freedom of speech , is simply that that right , under our law , must be exercised subject to the law of defamation which affords everyone protection against injury to reputation by untrue imputation . |
| 24 | Union leaders denied government allegations that the general strike had been time to coincide with Herrera 's rebellion . |
| 25 | Another casualty of the changing market has been Hornet , the Bradford-based microlight manufacturer . |
| 26 | A default action is any action , other than an admiralty action or a rent action , in which the only relief claimed is payment of money , whether that sum is already ascertained ( eg a debt ) or is to be ascertained in due course by the court ( damages ) . |
| 27 | Although the only relief claimed is payment of money , in form of process it resembles a fixed-date action ( see below ) . |
| 28 | The only expenditure had been time . |
| 29 | The only defendant to testify was Salaam , a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction . |
| 30 | It 's still the general feeling by several of Scotland 's well known bands that the only place to record is London and if they record in Scotland it 's a bit parochial . ’ |