Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 2 | The total cost of this scheme was £60273.46 and by June 1980 this had been completely cleared and the Building Fund had a credit balance of £2603.63 . |
| 3 | But I would prefer not to alert our Ministry of the Interior — given that this has been purely a secret service matter of the DGSE until now . |
| 4 | Only indigenous breeds are described , but the British Friesian has been so dominant in this country that its history is included here , though the Friesian and Holstein are considered in more detail in the Netherlands and North American sections . |
| 5 | By the turn of the century another five parks were open , and by the mid 1930 's a further eight had been added , including the major property of Belfast Castle Estate . |
| 6 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 7 | Already 10 systems have been sold in the UK , mainly to local authorities , and another 140 have been installed in mainland Europe . |
| 8 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 9 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Filming this silver-grey had been very exciting , but for the programme we needed shots of the more typical chocolate-coloured animal , too . |
| 11 | Up to 24 demonstrators had been shot dead and another 30 had been wounded , while seven others had later been executed . |
| 12 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 13 | Despite the recession , support for the Top 100 has been heartening . |
| 14 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 15 | Hae III followed by Hind III have been found to be the most discriminatory restriction endonucleases with which to cut H pylori . |
| 16 | During the past 16 years , by conservative estimates , 782 Chileans have disappeared , another 2,000 have been killed , and several thousands have been tortured . |
| 17 | Another 8,000 had been arrested earlier . |
| 18 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 19 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 20 | She is another likely to have been denied a post in the Kinnock government that now will not happen . |
| 21 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 22 | Another twenty-seven had been students in the imperial cadet corps , the naval academy , the mathematical-navigation school or the Slav — Greek — Latin academy . |
| 23 | The main constructive effort in providing for the future leisure activities of this national has been by Spanish and other Mediterranean resort countries , and predictably they have been the gainers . |
| 24 | The best performer in Wise Speke 's half dozen to follow is Darlington-based engineering group which last week announced that 93.9pc of the recent rights issue had been taken up by shareholders . |
| 25 | This latter has been discussed by Cater ( 1987 ) who states that ‘ … the development of tourism has been regarded as a panacea for the economic malaise of many of the least developed countries ( LDCs ) faced with a narrow resource base and serious balance of payment difficulties ’ . |
| 26 | Jaelani told Suharto that up to 50 people had died in the cemetery and a further 91 had been injured . |
| 27 | The Scottish international has been dropped because he 's not in the right frame of mind . |
| 28 | When a woman has finished her menstrual period and has counted seven days when no fresh bleeding has been apparent , she must immerse herself in a mikva before sexual relations with her husband can resume . |
| 29 | A total of nine elements were seen in the slab and its counterpart and some more have been exposed by careful excavation . |
| 30 | Untold billions have been poured into research and building working reactors in return for a relative few penn'orths of electricity . |