Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 2 | Twentieth Century-Fox musicals of the '40s were expertly wrapped lighthearted packages — just the thing to send the troops at the front — and Lynn Bari was invariably one of the prettiest ingredients . |
| 3 | In practice many poor law unions did not strictly enforce the workhouse test , and as the years passed the elderly and the sick were increasingly given outdoor relief . |
| 4 | Thus , while almost all scientists are — at the time of writing — convinced from the evidence that change in climate is under way and that regional effects may be much greater than the global average , the magnitude of the latter is now thought likely to be about half of what was predicted only 5 years ago . |
| 5 | Cases like the latter are usually termed diglossic Variants ( Ferguson , 1964 ) , although not everything so called has either the strict co-occurrence rules distinguishing levels or the restrictions in use that formal Tamil has . |