Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Old problems of contacts breaking or the case deteriorating have been rectified on most models . |
| 7 | Any euphoria this produced was very short-lived . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's a bit easier to read is n't it ? |
| 11 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By Thursday afternoon this had been , to use a typical Whitehall term of understatement , finessed . |
| 17 | but I suppose the likes of me , bit old fashioned are n't we ? |
| 18 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Figure 6.1 Experiments are needed to confirm that any particular structure of behaviour pattern functions as a signal . |
| 21 | The seven functional categories presented in Figure 7.5 have been derived empirically from classroom observations and for this reason it is not clear how they match up with Halliday 's interpersonal , ideational and textual functions ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 22 | What has made the re-dating definitive has been the dendrochronologist 's report which dates the panel to around 1485 — some twenty years after Rogier 's death ’ . |
| 23 | The effect this has is illustrated once again by chromium hexacarbonyl . |
| 24 | And what a failure of sensibility this had been ! |
| 25 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 26 | This group , known as T.E.C.A. , the Teachers ' Economic and Cultural Association Ltd. had been impressed by the strong nationalistic tone of Williams ' book and they wholeheartedly agreed with his sentiments that education of the people should be ‘ part of their democratic privileges and their democratic responsibilities ’ . |
| 27 | Chief Superintendent Large had been polite but made it clear that this was a matter for professionals and he had everything sewn up . |
| 28 | Since the mortality rates are standardized by the age and sex structure of the region , the illness measures in figure 10.2 have been similarly standardized . |
| 29 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 30 | The conflict between central and local government referred to in Chapter 4 has been clouded by both inter- and intra-party disputes . |