Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest fine imposed was £15,000 , relating to a major sewage pollution incident in the NRA 's North West region . |
| 2 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 3 | The Scottish international has been dropped because he 's not in the right frame of mind . |
| 4 | The anomalous finite do is used in the affirmative for purposes of emphasising the verb element : I do like strawberries ! ; |
| 5 | Despite the recession , support for the Top 100 has been heartening . |
| 6 | Only indigenous breeds are described , but the British Friesian has been so dominant in this country that its history is included here , though the Friesian and Holstein are considered in more detail in the Netherlands and North American sections . |
| 7 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 8 | This remarkable pioneer created twelve of these machines , of which eight still survive , the remaining four having been lost in battle or exploded during trial runs . |
| 9 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 10 | The body of the murdered oriental had been discovered when the Prophet 's private suite had been forcibly entered and searched . |
| 11 | Welcome back : Ronald and Reggie Kray , who ran the London underworld of the nineteen sixties have been idolised by a pair of twins who were n't even born then . |
| 12 | In particular erm we were worried that the county just had not acknowledged that one of the phenomena of the nineteen eighties had been that much of the industrial land in the borough of Harrogate converted to B one office use . |
| 13 | Moreover , catching up can not explain the slowdown in US productivity which occurred outside the manufacturing sector and which can only partly be explained by the less intense expansion once the excess capacity of the early 1960s had been used up . |
| 14 | The sharp fall in marriage rates since the early 1970s has been accompanied by a rise in the proportion of cohabiting couples . |
| 15 | His movies since the early 1970s have been few and far between . |
| 16 | In English studies especially the modern and the early modern have been erroneously conflated . |
| 17 | It is sometimes said that this appalling performance by the British economy in the early 1990s has been ‘ imported ’ from a world recession . |
| 18 | All four of the Titford brothers of this generation were in their early twenties on their wedding day — a reflection in itself of the fact that the average age at marriage for men was falling as the century wore on ; that average in the early 1700s had been as high as twenty-seven . |
| 19 | The fragmentation of the Nazi ‘ élite ’ groupings had shown itself plainly in 1924 , and the inner-Party factionalism and opposition in the early 1930s had been countered only through the strength of Hitler 's personal position . |
| 20 | Some aspects of the methods of containing local government expenditure introduced by the Conservative governments in the early 1980s have been left for the later chapter on intergovernmental relations . |
| 21 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 22 | The declining trend from the troubled days of the early 1980s has been reversed , and if the rate of increase continues into 1990 the next decade will look rather bleak . |
| 23 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 24 | The Second International had been intellectually dominated by the German Social Democratic Party and the small British Socialist Party and Independent Labour Party seem to have accepted this without feeling bound to follow the directives of a single foreign party , let alone a government . |
| 25 | Second mission came on March 6 , 1944. it was the day all the Mighty Eighth had been waiting for . |
| 26 | By the Seventies this had been cut down , thanks to the pressure cooker , hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets , to an hour . |
| 27 | A considerable proportion of this first generation of Peter 's representatives in western Europe were foreigners in Russian service ; but by the 1720s these had been replaced by native-born Russians . |
| 28 | The obvious first buy is a pack of small resistors , such 0.25 watt 5 per cent types . |
| 29 | A hastily assembled group of the famous 75s had been pushed forward on to Froideterre , and its lethal barrage had given one of the fresh divisions of XX Corps just enough time to move up through the ebbing debris of de Bonneval 's 37th African Division and establish a firm line from Bras to Haudromont . |
| 30 | A Hambledon CC account book dating from the late 1700s has been accepted by the government as payment in lieu of inheritance tax . |