Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled and 80 out of 200 NHS beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable .
2 So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled , 80 out of the 200 national health service beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable and damage totalling at least £250,000 has been caused .
3 So all the O threes have been chopped down and you get O twos forming .
4 ‘ It really is a bit strange to have been arguing the merits of ERM membership in academic abstraction , when the practical effects are there for all to see .
5 Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot .
6 A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug .
7 The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 .
8 Denning J. hints that Foakes v. Beer ( 1884 ) might have been decided differently if the fusion of law and equity by the Judicature Acts 1873–1875 had been considered .
9 Mathcad 4.0 has been made easier to use thanks to its new toolbar , cut and paste , auto scrolling , auto equation and text alignment , zoom , drag and drop facilities .
10 Old problems of contacts breaking or the case deteriorating have been rectified on most models .
11 Any euphoria this produced was very short-lived .
12 Where income such as an occupational pension or Retirement Pension is paid into a bank or building society account on , for example , a monthly or four-weekly basis , in some cases this has been treated as capital resulting in a possible reduction of benefit .
13 Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys .
14 As we shall see , in some individual cases this has been disputed .
15 Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’
16 By the end of March this had been " refined " further : from then onwards , Franco 's war of attrition was both a military inevitability and a punishment for the Republic 's resistance .
17 The noise this produces is greatly amplified for most of the abdomen behind the vibrating plate is also hollow and two large rectangular sections of the abdominal wall are stiffened to form resonators .
18 It 's a bit easier to read is n't it ?
19 What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal .
20 In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli .
21 In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result .
22 In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems .
23 In part this has been caused by the closures of collieries and factories , but the sharp drop in chapel or church attendance also means that fewer people are singing .
24 By Thursday afternoon this had been , to use a typical Whitehall term of understatement , finessed .
25 but I suppose the likes of me , bit old fashioned are n't we ?
26 By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers
27 He observed normal development of the egg even though the number of times this occurred was much reduced .
28 Over 1,000 second-hand slates worth £1 each have been taken from Mia Hall , Dyserth , which is being renovated .
29 Figure 2.4 has been drawn to show that , as the partial remainder is shifted left , the vacated positions can be used to hold the bits of the quotient .
30 The homes due to close are :
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