Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been such a constant that I ca n't believe anyone still falls for it … ’ |
| 2 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 3 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 4 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 5 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 6 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 7 | This has been another busy year in Parliament , with major legislation affecting the voluntary sector , including the Local Government and Housing Bill and water and electricity privatisation . |
| 8 | What this implies is that perfect love is impossible within the realm of empirical existence in the same way as absolute Truth and absolute ahi sā are impossible . |
| 9 | What this means is that Christian Maronite domination of the Lebanese body politic appears to be effectively at an end . |
| 10 | What this means is that good old fashioned self-reliance could become a new health vogue of the Nineties . |
| 11 | What this means is that science could not predict the probabilities of such singular histories for space-time . |
| 12 | What this means is that tight budgeting is essential . |
| 13 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 14 | What this suggests is that female sexuality was expressed very much within the terms of the definitions of female social roles . |
| 15 | What this suggests is that perception and cognition go hand in hand ( as indeed they do in modern psychological theories ) : the eye does not passively record objects in the raw , but structures and schematizes them in cognitively coded groupings . |
| 16 | What perhaps all this suggests is that public administration is more than private management writ public . |
| 17 | Well what this suggests is that and she likes Mary accounts as a legitimate string with and at the beginning of the sentence , but she likes Mary does n't , so you ca n't stick and at the end of the sentence . |
| 18 | Right plus sodium hydroxide now what all that happens is that these two change places . |
| 19 | If — so his argument goes — consenting adults in the private sectors of different countries lend money to each other , all that shows is that capital markets are usefully redirecting the surplus savings of one economy to the investment opportunities in another . |
| 20 | But anyway nineteen ninety three has been another successful year for the Garrick , which started , so far as the productions are concerned with the pantomime , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves directed by Jill her debut as a director , hopefully not her last . |
| 21 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most important of these has been that public education in England and Wales has been a service provided by public local authorities and paid for out of taxes . |
| 23 | Other useful transforms are those of differential and integral functions . |
| 24 | 1992 has been another year in which we have had to work hard to live within our means . |
| 25 | 1992 has been another year of fruitful cooperation with TRANSAID . |
| 26 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 27 | He declared : ‘ It also demonstrates how misleading has been much of the coverage of this issue , in the Press and elsewhere . ’ |
| 28 | So that 's been another step forward I think , in the whole progression , of the Fire Service . |