Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case ozone-poor air had been blown over the city after the annual break-up of the Antarctic ozone hold at the end of the southern spring . |
| 2 | In some cases extra support has been unnecessary . |
| 3 | In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI . |
| 4 | For some months that canvassing has been echoed , somewhat surprisingly , both by Keith Rowlands , the Welsh secretary of the IRB , and by Ray Williams , the tournament director in 1991 . |
| 5 | In this paper particular mention has been made of the application of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy to depression . |
| 6 | In this respect particular attention has been paid to the giant gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn . |
| 7 | It is not easy to judge from the vantage-point of the late twentieth century , for in the second half of this century rural life has been more profoundly transformed than at any time since the invention of agriculture . |
| 8 | To suppose that this century can fix the definition of democracy or , even more arrogantly , that it is in this century that democracy has been finally and definitively realized , is to be blind not only to the probabilities of the future but also to the certainties of the past . |
| 9 | For some time financial control had been in the hands of a receiver after the Leeds City company was wound up . |
| 10 | If the match takes place — some time next month has been suggested — it will provide ideal circumstances under which Andy Roxburgh , the national coach , may watch Costa Rica for the first time . |
| 11 | In this connection considerable thought has been given to the nature and magnitude of the resulting biologically effective radiation dose to the general population . |
| 12 | The reason that that B one insertion has been made is to cope with the use classes order change . |
| 13 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 14 | ‘ The balls fly so far these days that Hell 's been taken out of play . |
| 15 | While In 1960 Cambridge English had been still in the process of accommodating traditional canonical scholarship to the revisions of the new criticism , by the end of that decade this process had been displaced in the name of a pluralism of approaches . |
| 16 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food how many times English lamb has been hijacked in France : and if he will make a statement . |
| 17 | For many years this palazzo has been considered the most beautiful private house in Milan . |
| 18 | Indeed , in many studies epidural analgesia has been shown to be beneficial . |
| 19 | In many ways this discrimination has been reduced , but it is still there . |
| 20 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 21 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 22 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 23 | The former Charlton Athletic manager has been linked with Spurs , with Peter Shreeves under pressure and fans calling for a new manager . |
| 24 | Perhaps they thought of the militia fighting in Kampala ; perhaps they recognized that an awkward and in any case grandiose assumption had been pinpointed and pricked . |
| 25 | Development there has been described by Lehmann as ‘ modernisation with fitful growth ’ , because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal , at the expense of clientelist and personal , relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic ( Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 26 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 27 | Ever since its own time this parliament has been known as the ‘ Good Parliament ’ ; it has been thoroughly analysed by modern historians , and the Anonimalle Chronicle of St Mary 's Abbey , York , preserves an account of the deliberations amongst the commons which surpasses in its detail any other surviving account of the debates in a fourteenth-century parliament . |
| 28 | On several occasions judicial review has been sought of the Commission 's recommendations . |
| 29 | What keeps dancers fresh is new work to dance , and by that reckoning Russian ballet has been moribund since the 1917 revolution . |
| 30 | Chairman , less than one year ago since the report prepared for this committee recommending that work should commence on the preparation of the new bypass scheme of the town of Brandon , and since that date considerable progress has been made . |