Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 2 | To some extent a loss of conditioned responding is to be expected purely on the grounds that conditioning tends to be context-specific . |
| 3 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 4 | One result of this has been a contraction in the value that venture capitalists can put on for particular businesses . |
| 5 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 6 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 7 | The predictable result of this has been a plethora of cases in which the courts have been called upon to rule in what circumstances an assault may be described as sexual . |
| 8 | A military spokesman said that a batch of 120 had been put on a ship to return to their units in Cagayan de Oro on the southern island of Mindanao . |
| 9 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 10 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 11 | By January of 1802 a fence of quick had been planted all round the site and John Wing reported that the foundations were dug out and in part laid . |
| 12 | Also the effect of boiling has been mentioned . |
| 13 | The most noticeable effect of this has been very high levels of unemployment in France ( 2.8 million in October 1991 ) . |
| 14 | One effect of this has been the interest of larger companies in cheaper methods of lens fabrication ( such as direct-cast polymerisation of lenses ) and the economics of scale . |
| 15 | The paradoxical effect of this has been to put the researcher , including the one who claims to be working within applied linguistics , at a remove from the only contexts of application which can provide substantiating evidence for the relevance of the research . |
| 16 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 17 | The hazards , difficulties and expense of this have been greatly exaggerated ; the usefulness in creating interest and provoking genuine subject study can be considerable . |
| 18 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 19 | For many of his supporters he could do no wrong and any semblance of wrong having been done was explained as part of the ecumenical conspiracy to defeat true Protestantism . |
| 20 | He said Fisher 's plea of guilty had been a mitigating factor . |
| 21 | At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour . |
| 22 | At the heart of this has been the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 23 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 24 | The vast majority of those abused were Palestinians , although the numbers also included Iraqis , Sudanese and some stateless individuals [ see p. 38118 ] . |
| 25 | The vast majority of those prosecuted were found guilty and received sentences which included imprisonment or heavy fines . |
| 26 | The one indisputable fact these studies revealed is that the majority of those interviewed were not familiar with the extent of , or damage caused by , corporate crime and amongst the ‘ knowledgeable ’ minority , few were able to define it with any precision . |
| 27 | The great majority of this has been covered by CPRW from our revenue account and through special appeals to our 3,500 members . |
| 28 | Anyway a gang of these had been caught and the crowd now vented their fury by pelting them with rotten eggs whilst householders tipped chamber pots from upper stories . |
| 29 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 30 | Only a small proportion of those entitled are doing so . |