Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | German genre subjects have been flat for the past few seasons , so it was a pleasant surprise that Franz von Defregger 's ‘ Tyrolean zither player ’ ( est. $70–90,00 ) sold for $105,000 ( £70,000 ) . |
| 2 | Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . |
| 3 | WEDDING bells have been active during the summer with two of our former National Officers finding a new lease of life . |
| 4 | First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) . |
| 5 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 6 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 7 | The last time he 'd dived off it , the coral heads had been awash . |
| 8 | During much of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 's seventh administration , formed in April 1991 [ see p. 38157 ] , the four coalition parties had been conscious of the approaching election and the government had progressively lost cohesion . |
| 9 | In general terms , inflation accounting methods have been concerned with ensuring that capital is being maintained in economic terms . |
| 10 | Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation . |
| 11 | Terrestrial telly appearances have been spasmodic in recent years , but Allen is currently busy filming his own series , I Love Keith Allen , for BSB . |
| 12 | Air Force helicopters had been involved in relief flights for Kurds in northern Iraq , and medical units were operating with UN forces in Cambodia . |
| 13 | The quality of the publicity material in the research areas has been high , but has needed to be , for the public have initially been deeply sceptical about some of the proposals . |
| 14 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 15 | Emergency services could face additional problems over the next few days - the first weekend that ambulance officers have been involved in the action . |
| 16 | Modern Languages Option In Industry Resources Pack is available free to modern language teachers taking up a placement — a collaborative project between UBI , Barclays Bank , Department of Trade and Industry and Kent Education Authority . |
| 17 | In the UK two small research centres have been helpful in focusing progress on user studies , and in developing reliable methods . |
| 18 | Four out of five manufacturers say export orders have been good or very good over the past three months , according to trade group Trade Indemnity . |
| 19 | President Walesa has been unable to form a stable government , usually because one or more of the coalition partners have been unwilling to share responsibility for unpopular economic policies . |
| 20 | Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] . |
| 21 | The special 2-night break prices given are subject to available . |
| 22 | It is clear that the Opposition Whips have been active . |
| 23 | But recent auction prices have been disappointing . |
| 24 | It found that in Britain , the number of car users killed was 7.1 per billion vehicle kilometres — the lowest figure in Europe and less than half the EC average , 16 . |
| 25 | I know that my hon. Friend realises that many north-west and north-east Members have been careful not to intervene in the debate because we understand the strength of feeling in my hon. Friend 's constituency . |
| 26 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 27 | On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population . |
| 28 | Faecal occult blood testing was not used as an entry criteria nor was its usefulness assessed during this study as the investigations to locate a possible source of bleeding would have been pursued even if faecal occult blood tests had been negative . |
| 29 | The idea of older workers being surplus to labour requirements has been crucial to the development of pensions both in Britain ( the 1925 pensions legislation ) and the United States ( the Social Security Act of 1935 ) . |
| 30 | Research findings have been ambivalent in this area and no firm results have been shown . |