Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 2 | And nobody 's order books had been full this summer . |
| 3 | ( Perhaps the fact that the pubs had been open all day had something to do with that . ) |
| 4 | The extension of assured tenancies and the deregulation of rents have been important contributory factors in the increased use of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) in the private rented sector . |
| 5 | Previous patrol boats have been semi-rigid inflatable boats . |
| 6 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |
| 7 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 8 | The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output . |
| 9 | Australian test-tube teams have been freezing spare embryos since the programme began in 1981 — partly to avoid having to throw unwanted ones away — raising questions ranging from the ownership of the frozen embryo to who pays compensation if it is damaged . |
| 10 | The tissues sampled were malignant colorectal tumour tissue ( group a ) , benign colorectal tumour tissue ( group b ) , rectal mucosa from patients with inflammatory bowel disease ( group c ) , and healthy rectal mucosa from those patients undergoing haemorrhoidectomy ( group d ) . |
| 11 | Last year the London evening newspapers had been able several times to trot out their favourite banner headline . |
| 12 | Though the numbers affected are small colonoscopic biopsy and histological examination for dysplasia seems to hold no advantage over routine clinical management . |
| 13 | Other measures proposed are global tree-planting programmes and a halt in the burning of tropical forests so that by 2005 , no carbon dioxide emissions come from deforestation . |
| 14 | But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter . |
| 15 | The children have been difficult this weekend I do n't know what 's a matter with them , I think they 're just |
| 16 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 17 | Five others had been unsuccessful Parliamentary candidates , three of them being Conservatives . |
| 18 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 19 | He described the deaths as " premeditated murders " by the Serbian forces in the region of Tropoje , Kukes , and Pogradec and said that the victims had been unarmed economic migrants . |
| 20 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |