Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 2 | Liam Miller , the producer , sounded a cautious note later , saying the spectacular had been a £2.5 million operation involving a lot of time and resources . |
| 3 | We know that there were three other nominations but not whom two of them were , assuming the third to have been John of St Paul . |
| 4 | Note that the court could infer the accused had been in a public place where no such direct evidence exists . |
| 5 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 6 | Claiming the 1980s have been wasted in the development of elderly-care services , it suggests a three-year programme of community services development costing £700,000 — or another 1 per cent extra funding — in each health district . |
| 7 | And I presume the 2 disallowed were nt in that figure ? |
| 8 | Mr Goldring said the accused had been giving him his grandmother 's tablets . |
| 9 | Gordon Jackson , QC , for the boy , said the accused had been severely shaken by what had happened and his months on remand . |
| 10 | Mr Prais said the accused had been receiving treatment for depression at the State Hospital in Carstairs and the Crown 's view was that psychiatric help should be continued . |
| 11 | With real reverberation the sounds that take the longest to arrive are the weakest . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the UN force in Lebanon said a Nepali had been killed and another seriously wounded when two mortar bombs fired by the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army militia hit their post in the village of Yater . |
| 13 | I 'm the first to admit the English have been utter bastards . |
| 14 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 15 | Since any point on the diagonal makes the same intercepts on both scales any job whose line hits the diagonal has been completed . |
| 16 | A 600 yard narrow ( 2' ) gauge line following the old trackbed was opened by Meirion Mill in 1975 , but unfortunately it closed in 1977 . |
| 17 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 18 | So for example , if the yarn in feeder two is threaded through section B , when the yarn in feeder one comes from the C of D yarn holders , you 'll find the two yearns are wrapped around each other , between the yarn mast and the sinker plate . |