Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the language and culture barrier in dealing with the USSR , this airframes are in military zones which are strictly no-go areas — even in post- Coup era ! |
| 2 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 3 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 4 | Of these by-election gains more than half had been in straight fights , the implications of which were unmistakable . |
| 5 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 6 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 7 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 8 | From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 11 | All the 15 records since 1948 have been of single birds and the most in any year was four in 1952 . |
| 12 | Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons . |