Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later 1950s they encouraged education services to flourish ; and some local authorities began to innovate in this policy area in ways that in due course came to be regarded as radical and politically contentious . |
| 2 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 3 | When , on 25 March 1859 , the tsar announced the principles on which Russian local government was to be based in the future , he acknowledged that provision had to be made for involving the public . |
| 4 | I have since learned of the curious way in which that provision came to be inserted . |
| 5 | Two years ago , the Texas supreme court declared that money had to be spread equally between rich districts and poor , and that rich schools should send some of their revenues to the state to be shared out . |
| 6 | Not that money seemed to be a problem . |
| 7 | I needed crews such as Middleton 's badly and more especially captains like Middleton , but I was aware there was a weakness and that weakness had to be reinforced . |
| 8 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 9 | Moreover the armies of all West European States tended to be slow-moving , tied to fixed magazines and supply depots and further restricted by the ever-present fear of desertion . |
| 10 | As a result of this study full colonic assessment seemed to be required in patients with iron deficiency anaemia regardless of the findings of upper gastrointestinal investigations . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , each change had to be translated into local activity and if that translation did not take place , managers ran the risk of national decisions being superseded by yet further alterations . |
| 12 | Each category had to be put in a different container and taken to a collection centre . |
| 13 | Each cheque had to be signed and countersigned . |
| 14 | Labour support tended to be concentrated in already safe seats while the Tories swung many of the southern marginals , as many of the managerial , professional and small business strata registered Tory votes where they had previously voted Liberal or not voted at all ( Bonham , 1954 ) . |
| 15 | Although dozens of political detainees had been released in August 1990 and in March 1991 , the report said that more than 100 political prisoners continued to be held , some " for up to seven years without ever being charged or going to trial " . |
| 16 | There remained , according to a State Department spokesman , the US stipulation that all South African political prisoners had to be released . |
| 17 | They were just that — guidelines , she said , and each case had to be dealt with on its individual merits . |
| 18 | Lord Wheatley said ( at p830A-B ) that although each case had to be decided on its own facts , there were four guidelines to assist in determining whether the valuer had the benefit of arbitral immunity . |
| 19 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 20 | Each Spitfire had to be positioned on the flatbed in such a manner as to clear roadblock obstructions as well as overhead tramway cables encountered along the route . |
| 21 | Fifty prisoners had to be evacuated while firefighters dealt with it . |
| 22 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 23 | They had explained that microlighting was like a return to the early days of flying but two emergency landings within eight minutes seemed to be stretching nostalgia too far . |
| 24 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 25 | This represents a great deal of frustration , a sense of failure and a lot of parental income felt to be wasted . |
| 26 | Include a visit to Hound Tor with the fantastic rocky shapes said to be dogs converted to stone by witches . |
| 27 | In March 1971 Chichester-Clark resigned to be replaced by Brian Faulkner . |
| 28 | The new car body weighed 9.55 tonnes , and the unladen weight of the complete car proved to be 17.29 tonnes . |
| 29 | A far distant bell in her exhausted mind seemed to be ringing some kind of warning . |
| 30 | In Pahl 's well-known expression , local political research came to be concerned with ‘ Who gets the scarce resources and facilities ? |