Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stapleton says everything possible has been and will be done to answer their inquiries . |
| 2 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 3 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 4 | What few realised was that diesels were more costly than their petrol-engine counterparts , and that the break-even point ( when the fuel savings outweighed the price difference ) did n't occur until very large mileages had been covered . |
| 5 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 6 | The consequence of this has been that the Coal Board has been forced to borrow substantial sums from the National Loans Fund , and from other sources under Treasury Guarantee , to finance the new and redeveloped capacity considered necessary by the NCB . |
| 7 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 8 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 9 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 10 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 11 | What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail . |
| 12 | What this illustrates is that you ca n't take an institution at face value any more and certainly should n't select or dismiss an institution on your ( or your parents ' ) first impression . |
| 13 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 14 | However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order . |
| 15 | The price of being a high achiever is that one can not stop . |
| 16 | Why this occurs is as follows : if Dept . |
| 17 | The reason why this happens is that you are thinking about other issues at the time . |
| 18 | The reason why this happens is that hemicelluloses , a structural component of vegetables , are soluble in alkaline solutions ( such as bicarbonate of soda ) . |
| 19 | As an Egyptian columnist recently remarked in the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram : ‘ What this shows is that the new world order is a system of codified international piracy . ’ |
| 20 | What this shows is that the physical absence or presence of the other party at the time of the transaction by itself bears no necessary relationship to the appropriateness of the transaction being investigated and made the subject of an order by an English court . |
| 21 | What all this shows is that a distinctively structuralist kind of criticism is possible , and moreover , that it is more than the simple application and refinement of the tools of poetics . |
| 22 | What this shows is that there is no simple relationship between domains , situations , generations or language preferences which will enable us to explain the linguistic behaviour of young British-born Caribbeans in London . |
| 23 | Another way in which the icons are now easier to understand is because you can now include separators in the SmartIcon palette in order to group icons together . |
| 24 | What this entails is that once a charge becomes enforceable , the chargee may thereupon take whatever steps are available to enforce the charge since English law places no significant impediments in the way of the right of enforcement of a charge . |
| 25 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 26 | What this implies is that a group of people who , as consumers , constructed and sustained this image of the individualist tradition also , as producers , constructed the very image of change , community and modernity to which it is opposed . |
| 27 | What this means is that you 're the centre of attention and you 're waited on hand and ( of course ) foot . |
| 28 | Although the constitution of the Confederation contains detailed regulations on the powers of the federal government and on the content of federal policy , all this means is that whenever a centralising measure is proposed , they amend the constitution . |
| 29 | What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young . |
| 30 | What this means is that the faster we go , the more the apparent wind direction swings forwards . |