Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 2 | Some of the contracts have been straight business deals whereby the Provisionals and the property owners split the profit from the government compensation . |
| 3 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In other words , the graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend . |
| 7 | The graphs investigated were three times more likely to exaggerate , rather than underestimate , an upward trend |
| 8 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 9 | In some years a high proportion of the birds involved are adult males . |
| 10 | Apart from a few species of northern waders which regularly spend the winter in the islands , the rest of the birds recorded are wind-blown vagrants from South America . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The gang had been intimidating passengers and had attacked the driver and a woman guard . |
| 13 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 14 | The Masai have been good friends . |
| 15 | As we have stressed , the times quoted are minimum times . |
| 16 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 17 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 18 | If you want to use a different yarn and , especially for readers overseas who may not be able to buy the originals , the yarns shown are actual size so that you can compare your substitute yarn with the original . |
| 19 | Among the objects salvaged were gold dishes , weighing a pound each , with the image of the emperor on them . |
| 20 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 21 | And it did seem to me that in the light of , erm , of the single regeneration budget , on the light of the need to be developing a regeneration strategy for Shropshire , perhaps the role of the County Council in this affair should actually be , er , as , as the local government for the county , should be to look at preparing a , a regeneration strategy for the whole county , at which the work that we do to economic development is one of the pillars of support as is the work that the districts do is another pillar of support , as is the work of the R D C and the objective five programme , and all the various other bodies that are involved in , in economic development and similar activities in . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The parameters established were good predicators , and the more the cultural barriers to adjustment , the less the satisfaction in these countries . |
| 24 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 25 | Elaine Smith was very warm and moving as Josie Riley who at thirty-eight with the kids grown is all energy for the community and conceives a very requited fancy for Bazz Blacker , the well-meaning social worker downstairs . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 28 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 29 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 30 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |