Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [vb base] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the usual cost-trimming exercises have been accomplished the only thing left to do is to sell off some of the most profitable parts to raise cash . |
| 2 | Brazil has for political reasons pushed Proalcool despite the fact that in narrow economic terms gasohol is still inferior to petrol . |
| 3 | To our knowledge , only two cases of possible CMV retinitis have been reported in non-immunocompromised hosts . |
| 4 | A particular characteristic of a state in which extensive social policies have been adopted is that it is a bureaucratic state . |
| 5 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
| 6 | Weak magnetic fields have been detected associated with the ionosphere and perhaps with surface rocks , but not any magnetic field of internal dipole origin . |
| 7 | Weak magnetic fields have been detected in surface rocks . |
| 8 | Pairs of sentences that have a coherent semantic relation have been shown to be more rapidly processed than pairs in which the relation is less distinct [ Just & carpenter , 1978 ] . |
| 9 | Moreover , loss-making Spanish public enterprises have been subject to specific pay bands lower than those for profitable companies . |
| 10 | Reasons are not clear-cut , but various aspects of rural social life have been suggested . |
| 11 | The process usually involves the stimulation of indigenous subsurface microorganisms to degrade chemicals on-site , although there have been cases in which microorganisms with some specialised metabolic capabilities have been added . |
| 12 | It focuses on the extent to which areas of socially heterogeneous private renting have been replaced by areas of higher economic status owner occupation and lower status council renting and it examines the nature of processes involved . |
| 13 | This process is most evident in the United States , where public administrative agencies have been found to resemble pressure groups in the way they attempt to influence public opinion and legislative action . |
| 14 | In Kenya , the sparse results of the 1983 Task Force on Divestiture of Government Investment reflect less the unwillingness of the government to press on with privatisation — as demanded by the IMF and World Bank — than the absence of willing African — not Asian — buyers ; most foreign private enterprise have been uninterested . |
| 15 | Even unemployed deaf people have been discriminated against on training courses . |
| 16 | After breakfast I take a stroll around the base checking that all the daily administrative tasks have been completed . |
| 17 | For example , the changes in the British Labour Party have been extensive , and continue , following the loss of four successive general elections between 1979 and 1992 . |
| 18 | Many different theoretical approaches have been developed , and no area of phonology has been free from critical examination . |
| 19 | Leaders of the Muslim ‘ parliament ’ disclosed the plans exclusively to The People after it was learned that unscrupulous British dealers have been selling ordinary meat as Halal |
| 20 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 21 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 22 | Laws on foreign direct investment have been liberalised . |
| 23 | The National Trust is responsible for the care and upkeep and the old wooden gutters have been repaired over the years . |
| 24 | Winger John Gallacher has been given a free transfer but improved one-year contracts have been offered to talented teenagers Matty Appleby , Alan Neilson and Lee Makel. — FORMER Middlesbrough goalkeeper Kevin Poole will miss Leicester City 's Wembley date with Blackburn Rovers . |
| 25 | Indeed , linear magnetic anomalies have been identified behind a number of island arcs ; those behind the Scotia Arc in the southern Atlantic Ocean , for instance , indicate that spreading has occurred here over the past 7–8 Ma . |
| 26 | Pro-marketeers of a social democratic type have been prepared to manage markets : restricting the area of their use ( keeping them out of such things as health care ) ; moderating their tendency to generate inequality , ( by policies of income redistribution ) ; and preserving some of the market 's industrial casualties by nationalizing bankrupt firms and industries . |
| 27 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 28 | During the past twenty years or so , many soil conservation programmes in lesser developed countries have been initiated , financed and often partly staffed by foreign aid institutions , particularly multilateral agencies such as the Food and Agricultural Organisation , and the World Bank , and also the biggest bilateral agency , USAID . |
| 29 | Many conservation programmes in lesser developed countries have been initiated , financed and partly staffed by foreign aid donors , both multilateral and bilateral ( of which by far the most important financially and intellectually has been USAID ) . |
| 30 | Two so-called alternative schemes have been suggested . |