Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [vb base] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 2 | In Harrogate , three of the largest hotels have been in receivership , with many others fighting to survive . |
| 3 | The largest increases have been to women aged 20–24 ; about 4 in 10 of their births were outside marriage in 1989 , more than four times the proportion in 1971 . |
| 4 | There have been substantial population losses in the more industrialized and urbanized regions , including the South East , North and North West , while the largest gains have been in the South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands . |
| 5 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 6 | The outstanding examples have been in the dating of town defences , as demonstrated by Philip Corder in 1956 . |
| 7 | Since the First World War the railways in the developed world have been in decline , their role usurped by motor transport and in particular the car . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow is only too well aware of how successful the central institutions have been in working with the expertise in the Scottish Office . |
| 9 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 10 | That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future . |
| 11 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 12 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 13 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 14 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 15 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 16 | The contentious proposals have been under consideration for a number of years , says English Heritage , and are not principally attributable to its new director , the controversial Jocelyn Stevens , widely seen as a hardline , Thatcherite free marketeer . |
| 17 | Most claims for SHP are still made in Scotland and the north-east of England , but the sharpest increases have been in the south-east and south-west , where claims have risen ten-fold or more . |
| 18 | Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World . |
| 19 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 20 | The identification of the extra meanings mentioned above can only take place once the initial sentences have been in themselves understood . |
| 21 | ( a ) How meaningful would the first statement have been to you without this additional information ? |
| 22 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |
| 23 | In the main , the biggest improvements have been in child health and the process of childbirth . |
| 24 | Rates have fallen in all regions but the biggest drops have been in regions with the highest rates . |
| 25 | We used to do the live show that was never broadcast — it was just the bit after all the other stars have been on stage and mimed to their records for the audience . |
| 26 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 27 | SunSelect — Sun 's PC-to-Unix connectivity satellite — demonstrated technology enabling NT users to access Unix systems via PC-NFS at last November 's Comdex Fall trade show and the two firms have been in discussions ever since . |
| 28 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 29 | Around 730,000 of the new registrations have been through the Share Information Office and the rest with the many Share Shops set up by banks , building societies and other financial firms . |
| 30 | The postcard he wrote to Hanns at the end of the tour reveals John plunged into deepest gloom : ‘ My dear — The past weeks have been like an unforgettable nightmare . |