Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime amongst these , at the present historical juncture , is the European Community ( EC ) , whose progress towards economic and political integration has been slow , a fact which does not dismay its competitors in world trade . |
| 2 | Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
| 4 | And this approach has been standard in epistemology since . |
| 5 | And this girl 's been married |
| 6 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
| 7 | At all times , the BBC and official propaganda has been industrious at smearing them with crime and violence . |
| 8 | It has given its owners a greater degree of mobility than they hitherto possessed but the social and environmental cost has been considerable . |
| 9 | Among a large number of Tory frogs in this election the craving for a more compelling and stirring leader has been plain . |
| 10 | There were 37 attempted and full burglaries and once more hi-fi and electrical equipment has been top of the burglars ' list . |
| 11 | Each religion and religious tradition has been subject to geographical , historical and sociological factors which have influenced its vocabulary and the thought-forms enshrined within that vocabulary , and which have become unknowingly exclusive of the insights of others . |
| 12 | The holder of that office must have some way of measuring whether such a huge and expensive change has been successful . |