Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lambing had begun and the sheep 's tousled fleece had been shorn to a jagged grey stubble . |
| 2 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 3 | She remembered his scratched plans and his frowning concentration , and for the first time fully understood that all that persistence had been devoted to the cause of breaking into Parfois . |
| 4 | He had already noted , with some concern , that money raised was immediately ‘ dissipated ’ into a range of fringe activities . |
| 5 | The fly in the ointment was that money had been switched from the Department of the Environment which is accountable to Parliament . |
| 6 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 7 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 8 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 9 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 10 | Before the budget , because of the problem of trying to find money to cut the local bills , little progress had been made . |
| 11 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 12 | Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead . |
| 13 | Foremost amongst the measures proposed in the latter instance was increased Aboriginal access to land , an issue upon which little progress had been made — with the possible exception of the sparsely populated Northern Territory — and which remained at the heart of much Aboriginal discontent . |
| 14 | At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties . |
| 15 | Once that decision had been taken , the rest evolved by a process of elimination . |
| 16 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 17 | By last night , six oil-soaked birds had been found and taken to an RSPCA shelter at Fareham , Hampshire . |
| 18 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 19 | His funeral was as well orchestrated as his political meetings had been . |
| 20 | By 1981 the artist was using photographic imagery as if it was purely graphic material , as if the literal meanings had been dissolved in a solution of ideas and metaphors — except that the half-tone dots from newsprint were emphatically part of the image . |
| 21 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 22 | It is clear that this kind of INSET provision could have been much more effective if the membership of each course had been carefully targeted and hence more homogeneous ; many of the teachers who attended would have been better served by a simpler , more sharply focused presentation of recommendations specifically relevant to their own current practice . |
| 23 | To ask how a piece of machinery worked was not to deny that each part had been designed with a function in mind . |
| 24 | The independent commission established by the government to investigate and audit funds and property of former East German parties and political groups had been hindered in its work by shortage of staff and lack of co-operation from the affected organizations . |
| 25 | Although the original Oct-11 clone had been isolated from testis cDNA using PCR ( 30 ) , screening of three different testis cDNA libraries , including one that was unamplified , failed to reveal any clones corresponding to Oct-11 . |
| 26 | A seven-fathom section of the mooring cable had been removed and replaced with much lighter chain which then gave way during the next storm . |
| 27 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 28 | In 1945–46 Soviet policy was to encourage cooperation between the moderate leftists and the communists until an administrative framework had been created . |
| 29 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 30 | Once a three-way division had been agreed in principle , each of the three brothers spent the rest of the summer in consolidating his position where it seemed weakest . |