Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 2 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 3 | Twelve people have died and a further twelve have been hurt in crashes in freezing fog on roads in England and Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Jaelani told Suharto that up to 50 people had died in the cemetery and a further 91 had been injured . |
| 5 | A further four have been made by the European Community and through the United Nations . |
| 6 | OF THE 28 Tory Stinkers who voted on St Valentine 's Day in support of a socialist 's motion to ban hunting , four have now retired from politics — Mudd , Braine , Rossi and Clark — while a further five have been thrown out by the electorate . |
| 7 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 8 | By the turn of the century another five parks were open , and by the mid 1930 's a further eight had been added , including the major property of Belfast Castle Estate . |
| 9 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 10 | Some 60 people had died in the fighting and a further 150 had been injured , mostly Palestinians . |
| 11 | According to a report on the ( West Beirut-based ) Radio Lebanon on Sept. 9 a total of 78 people had died in the fighting , and a further 240 had been injured . |
| 12 | It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges . |
| 13 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
| 14 | Other workers frightened that they might become victims of a Maxwell-style rip-off have been told that a personal plan is ‘ safer ’ . |
| 15 | erm and yeah , er but that was his speciality er so it 's so of that four hundred and sixty million er a hundred million odd er just over a hundred million has been recovered , but unfortunately we still have three hundred and eighty million of liabilities erm that is due in part to the fact that with low interest rates really the liability value has increased . |
| 16 | The removal of a centre of consciousness to which the narrative discourse could be attached and the self-conscious preoccupation with both the linguistic/ verbal origins of the text and the status of the reading and writing of fiction suggested that a new aesthetic had been evolved . |
| 17 | By March 1289 , however , a new seneschal had been appointed , this time a native of Ponthieu . |