Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry . |
| 2 | The best types of margarine or low fat spreads are those that are labelled ‘ high in polyunsaturates ’ and you should use vegetable oil or olive oil in cooking . |
| 3 | The treatment of bile leakage after open cholecystectomy , by endoscopic sphincterotomy or stent placement has been reported to yield acceptable results , especially when the patient is referred in an early phase . |
| 4 | Parents may be confronting their children repeatedly demanding them to do what is asked and find that this produces immense negative emotional reactions : temper tantrums or complete refusal to co-operate are common . |
| 5 | It will either show he 's overdrawn or that money has been credited . |
| 6 | But it does not mean , ’ she said starchily , ‘ that one is totally without influence , or that propriety has been put in abeyance . |
| 7 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 8 | It was apparently Da Ponte who persuaded the emperor to pass the text , telling him that all scenes which might offend good taste or public decency had been excised . |
| 9 | Even in the case of smoking where some success has been achieved in persuading the public that smoking is undesirable , the reasons for success remain largely obscure . |
| 10 | Several cases have arisen where this idea has been tested . |
| 11 | The intervention has been carried out improperly Perhaps rewards have not been delivered and withheld consistently , or different behaviour has been rewarded . |
| 12 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 13 | This is relatively short , but there is also an operating time involved , and for safety a one-minute or five-minute overhead has been added to the actual sort times given in Fig. 7.22 . |
| 14 | Where social life has been jettisoned altogether in order to give adequate care , life without the dependent parent may seem empty and lonely . |
| 15 | That is , once a familiar or unfamiliar category has been labelled , it is ‘ taken ’ , so any further unfamiliar words must be labels for yet other unfamiliar categories . |
| 16 | Having completed a tour of the museum , Elisabeth and Svend found themselves back in Svend 's office , where fresh coffee had been placed by an unseen hand . |
| 17 | Birth itself is a physical and emotional crisis for the child and long-lasting emotional effects from a difficult or ill-organised birth have been postulated . |
| 18 | The first half reflects on one incident : a soldier who has died or lost consciousness has been found by his friends and they try to awaken him , finding out if he is dead . |
| 19 | Where such nervousness has been overcome and groups have invited their neighbours along , they have often been surprised by the level of response ( Gibbs 1977:13 ; 1979a:22 ) . |
| 20 | However , where such transplantation has been attempted , the results as far as productivity is concerned have not been as dramatic as management academics had expected ( Cole 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Also , the associations that will be discussed , and the interpretations of them in postclassical terms that will be offered , should not be seen as suggesting the operation of ‘ causes ’ or ‘ determinants ’ , even where such language has been used by those involved in establishing the associations . |
| 22 | There are also problems at Wild Cat Tor , where serious erosion has been caused by climbers going up to the Blue Grass and Singing Kettle buttresses . |
| 23 | The incompetent or misguided general had been dismissed . |
| 24 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 25 | Alternative or additional funding has been sought from social services departments ( non-Strategy ) , health authorities , education departments , Children in Need , trusts , and by fundraising . |
| 26 | Where republican status has been unilaterally declared ( as in the case of the Republic of Ireland ) it has been accepted . |
| 27 | Waste bins overflowed with paper , in the wire room the overnight news from around the world spewed out , in the typewriters sheaves of messages or half-written copy had been stuffed . |
| 28 | With regard to HBV , markers of past or current infection have been found more commonly in patients with alcoholic liver disease than in the general population in some studies but not others . |
| 29 | He said that no mechanical or electrical defect had been found in the lift after the accident . |
| 30 | Where mucosal protection has been shown it does not correlate well with potency of inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase and could be due to another property such as oxygen radical scavenging . |