Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect . |
| 32 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 33 | The way that the Single European Act of 1986 has been applied is a good example . |
| 34 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 had been followed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1894 were accompanied by further discussions of local government reform . |
| 35 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 36 | I think it right to say at once that on the authorities , consisting of a series of previous decisions of the Divisional Court in which the provisions now contained in section 7(3) and ( 4 ) and section 8(2) of the Act of 1988 have been considered , neither the magistrate nor the Divisional Court in this case had any option but to decide as they did . |
| 37 | A BOY of 10 has been hailed a hero by police after his family were terrorised in their beds by a gang of masked gunmen . |
| 38 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 39 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 40 | In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) . |
| 41 | It seems most likely that an appreciable quantity of unreduced bis(2-azidoethyl)ether was still present in the ‘ diamine ’ . |
| 42 | The scene of this has been identified as Chapel Point near Mevagissey . |
| 43 | A GIRL of 11 has been taken away from school because she is too brainy . |
| 44 | The evidence however clearly shows that this sort of wholesale forgetting is normal while we are asleep . |
| 45 | I do n't know , you 're sort of half dozing are n't you ? |
| 46 | And the greatest joy of all to report is that young has got a job in the ‘ City ’ working with some options traders , which is what he had months ago set his heart on . |
| 47 | Once the immediate crisis of 1940 had been weathered and the country embarked upon the long haul of productive effort and austerity , groups like the ‘ 1941 Committee ’ pressed Britain 's war aims in terms of plans for the future . |
| 48 | Turning to collective behaviour , opinion of those interviewed was divided on the effect of television on attendance in the Chamber . |
| 49 | Giovanni Morelli 's classic and revolutionary Della Pittura italiana in Gustavo Frizzoni 's Italian edition of 1897 has been reprinted to commemorate the centenary of the author 's death . |
| 50 | Over 900,000 of the province 's population of 9,000,000 had been displaced by the war , and a further 205,737 were categorized as " affected " by the emergency . |
| 51 | Blumenthal ( 1969 ) suggests that six strategies are possible and these are discussed first , although the meaning of each has been changed somewhat to take account of the technological and other developments that have taken place since that text was published . |
| 52 | Although no record of this has been found , on 10 May the division split into two groups . |
| 53 | Unfortunately there is no record of any fry being raised , indeed , many of the fry appeared to starve . |
| 54 | The consequence of this has been that the Coal Board has been forced to borrow substantial sums from the National Loans Fund , and from other sources under Treasury Guarantee , to finance the new and redeveloped capacity considered necessary by the NCB . |
| 55 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 56 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 57 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 58 | The consequence of this has been the incorporation into the political sphere of issues which were previously barely regarded as political at all . |
| 59 | Images compressed under the JPEG standard at a ratio of 20:1 have been shown in printed form . |
| 60 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |