Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harris points out that the scope of temporal reference covered by the standard English present-perfect is covered in Irish English by no fewer than five forms , as exemplified above . |
| 2 | The remaining eight were made for Polish television . |
| 3 | The continuing growth in the number of sub-contractors ' ’ lump ’ labour employed in the construction industry during the 1960s and early '70s was viewed with increasing concern and suspicion by government authorities , because of the widespread avoidance of payment of both income tax and national insurance contributions . |
| 4 | Two hundred and eighty four patients were classed as renal patients because the disease causing admission — as recorded on their official case sheet — was renal or related to the urinary tract ; the remaining 1243 were classed as non-renal patients . |
| 5 | In practice the authority of an individual metropolitan was influenced by political factors , such as the favour in which he was held at court . |
| 6 | The government had since early 1990 been discussing with non-governmental relief organizations the relocation of 23 camps around Khartoum , blaming their occupants ( mainly refugees from the war-torn south ) for the capital 's rising crime rate . |
| 7 | The second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s were dominated for local government by a series of changes in funding arrangements and rules on spending . |
| 8 | The lightweight upper is made from synthetic suede and nylon and the support is given by the thermoplastic heel counter . |
| 9 | On the continent , however , mixtures are used , though how effective this is compared with single remedy prescriptions is still to be evaluated . |
| 10 | The 1973 Grand National was won by Red Rum , ridden by Brian Fletcher , by three quarters of a length from Crisp , with L'Escargot twenty-five lengths away in third and Spanish Steps a further twelve lengths back in fourth . |
| 11 | More damningly , it has abandoned the ‘ underclass ’ — where the desperate poor are driven to petty offences . |
| 12 | Apart from these , only four other PJC-2s were ordered by private pilots and together with the prototype , eleven were sold when the need to build-up America 's defences led to a curb on the use of strategic materials and production ceased . |
| 13 | The other three were treated for minor injuries . |
| 14 | The military reactors at Savannah River are getting old , one having been closed permanently and the other three being closed pending extensive repairs . |
| 15 | External bleeding is controlled by direct pressure over the bleeding site . |
| 16 | The other two are preserved in yellowish fluid . |
| 17 | The eroded top of the Upper Cretaceous was covered by thick Tertiary ( Eocene ) basalts , and the Chalk was thereby metamorphosed from its usual porous form into non-porous crypto-crystalline limestone . |
| 18 | LEA responses to Circular 14/77 were written with sufficient and skilled vagueness that the flaws and weaknesses were not easy to detect ; and a similar picture of diversity and confusion over the curriculum emerged from the HMI secondary survey published in 1979 . |
| 19 | The pressure in and length of the lower oesophageal sphincter were assessed with rapid pull through technique . |
| 20 | The positive heuristic is comprised of rough guidelines indicating how the research programme might be developed . |