Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already 10 systems have been sold in the UK , mainly to local authorities , and another 140 have been installed in mainland Europe . |
| 2 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 3 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 4 | Hae III followed by Hind III have been found to be the most discriminatory restriction endonucleases with which to cut H pylori . |
| 5 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 6 | A total of nine elements were seen in the slab and its counterpart and some more have been exposed by careful excavation . |
| 7 | Untold billions have been poured into research and building working reactors in return for a relative few penn'orths of electricity . |
| 8 | The other main initiative to integrate TOP into the Management Review is a programme of team training for Section teams of which some 40-50 have been identified throughout the Station . |
| 9 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 10 | Twelve people have died and a further twelve have been hurt in crashes in freezing fog on roads in England and Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The anomalous finite do is used in the affirmative for purposes of emphasising the verb element : I do like strawberries ! ; |
| 12 | Some carved stone heads rather less than half life-size have been found in Crete , for example the Middle Minoan II head ( 1900–1700 BC ) which was found at Monastiriako Kefali . |
| 13 | A further four have been made by the European Community and through the United Nations . |
| 14 | During the fourteen years following the Electrical conspiracy verdict , a further thirty-eight corporate executives out of nearly 800 convicted have been imprisoned for violations of the anti-trust laws . |
| 15 | The 1960s and early 1970s have been characterised by Pearson ( 1975 ) , perhaps rather extravagantly , as the period of ‘ the great refusal ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1989 , there were over 1000 long-term unemployed people on the Programme : this figure was planned to rise to 2000 in 1990 and over 3000 in 1991. 10 million have been allocated to JTP for 1990–1 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 17 , Paras 44–5 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If some of the mother 's natural young have been left in the litter these can be used for health screening . |
| 20 | Many such have been recovered from the preserving peat of Denmark and of ‘ the Angle ’ . |
| 21 | Many hundreds have been arrested on suspicion of corruption ; after referendums last month , the voting system is being changed ( to reduce the power of the party bosses ) and state subsidies for political parties are being abolished . |
| 22 | None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung . |
| 23 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 24 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 25 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 26 | Detectors with arms about 20 m long have been built by groups at the Max-Planck Institut , Garching-bei-München , and at Glasgow University . |
| 27 | At least 2.000 refugees and probably many more have been massacred in joint operations by the two armies while trying to flee across the border . |
| 28 | Salvadorean nuns and lay workers have also been raped and murdered and many more have been forced into exile . |
| 29 | But this was just one more duty for the caddie ; since 1939 many more have been added to the basic requirements needed when he was a man with a bundle of hickory under his arm . |
| 30 | But the message of the book continued to speak long after Baxter died , and many more have been helped along the ‘ path that leads to life ’ , by this book , including great soul winners such as George Whitfield and Charles Spurgeon . |