Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1892 the Headmaster could announce that " twice as many honours and distinctions and just over twice as many certificates as last year have been gained . |
| 2 | This might seem a particularly appropriate task for geographers although similar work has been the province of biologists , archaeologists and geologists . |
| 3 | Adrian Savage predicts other dangers : ‘ There are enormous problems because middle management has been the traditional way of deciding who is going to be a top manager . |
| 4 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 5 | I resisted the temptation to analyse the results until all information had been gathered in case I sub-consciously distorted the data-gathering process . |
| 6 | Its political function was as much the repression of the rural and urban masses as feudal vassalage had been , but in addition it had to act to protect the land-owning aristocracy against the growing power of the bourgeousie which was based on the technical and commercial advances underlying pre-industrial manufacturing . |
| 7 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 8 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 9 | The second part dealt with mixed foil and stated that the ownership of the sellers would transfer from the foil used in the manufacture to the finished products and that these would remain the property of the sellers until full payment had been made to them . |
| 10 | She argues that the nature of the Tests is now so different that we can not object on the same grounds as each objection has been met . |