Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [adv] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Social imperialism ’ suggests that the main beneficiaries of this policy were British consumers , and indeed one writer has gone so far as to argue a direct link to the Attlee government 's social reforms : ‘ The nationalisations , medical provision and expansion of education so magnanimously legislated by the Labour Ministry were largely achieved because the Bank of England kept the Sterling Area show on the road . ' |
| 2 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 3 | This was a major objective of burial societies and other forms of insurance ; irreplaceable possessions were often pawned or sold to pay for a funeral . |
| 4 | Warning colours presumably evolved because such striking patterns are easily recognised and the lesson quickly learned . |
| 5 | It may also be asked whether national political and economic policies are always debated and discussed with the seriousness they should be in curriculum committees or teachers ' colleges . |
| 6 | A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) . |
| 7 | Alpine roads are better surfaced than they were , but still a patch of grit can start a front wheel sliding . |
| 8 | In the Marxist theory of the Second International the economic base is dogmatically described as determining the superstructure ( Callinicos 1983 : 62 ) . |
| 9 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 10 | Tall hierarchies are often seen as bureaucratic . |
| 11 | Low potencies are usually regarded as being those up to and including the 30c or 30x . |
| 12 | The oral papillae are slightly flattened and the distalmost papillae may be widened at the free end or in some specimens larger than the others almost opercular . |
| 13 | The oral papillae are usually pointed although distalmost ones may be slightly rectangular . |
| 14 | Her dark brown hair was neatly cut and waved around her face ; there was only a slight tinge of grey . |
| 15 | If one public house has occasion to put out any customer then the other public houses are immediately alerted and likewise , if someone is banned then the other public houses are informed . |
| 16 | If one public house has occasion to put out any customer then the other public houses are immediately alerted and likewise , if someone is banned then the other public houses are informed . |
| 17 | A spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry was later quoted as reaffirming that the disputed islands belonged to Iran , and as referring to the GCC 's use of " inappropriate words " . |
| 18 | New interests emerge , fresh claims are admitted , but old titles are seldom revised and still more rarely withdrawn . |
| 19 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 20 | But a reaction against high rise was quickly mounted and the additional subsidy was withdrawn in 1967 . |
| 21 | The Ethiopian Parliament was so exasperated that it passed a unanimous resolution in 1968 begging Emperor Hailé Sellassié not to visit Italy until the monument 's return . |
| 22 | For uneven development also means that social groups are spatially constituted and differentiated , with variable local strengths and importance . |
| 23 | But now , with hopes of success in both Guineas races in two weeks ' time , and the renaissance of Manton under his trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam , the leading British owner-breeder is better placed than at any period in the past decade . |
| 24 | Full sound support is also given and both Ad Lib and Roland sound boards are supported . |
| 25 | In Britain , borrowing needs of all public authorities are largely centralised and expressed as a public-sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) . |
| 26 | Direct commercial influences are clearly involved where the corporation closes excess capacity in a particular product , or withdraws from that market entirely . |
| 27 | In this area a seif-like dune forms , but away from the shelter of the cliff the influence of the prevalent wind is again felt and the seif-like dune tends to break down to isolated mounds and finally to barchans . |
| 28 | For the most part , popular violence was reluctantly undertaken and temperately employed , a response to extreme provocation and almost always conservative in its aims . |
| 29 | The predominant accent of the foreigners in the hotel corridors and restaurants is American , though English voices are sometimes heard and , it is said , the occasional Aberdonian . |
| 30 | This was one of the finest and largest churches here but , having survived much of the bombardment of the First World War , it was seriously damaged in the fire of 1917 when its wooden roof was totally destroyed and caused great ruination when it collapsed into the church . |