Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be most successful if advance preparation has been carried out . |
| 2 | The lambing had begun and the sheep 's tousled fleece had been shorn to a jagged grey stubble . |
| 3 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 4 | LIFESPAN-to-LIFESPAN messages Usually messages indicating that some requested function has been completed . |
| 5 | The government has so far been equivocal about the resources to be made available , but it is significant that the Griffiths proposal for a specific grant has been rejected , except in the case of the mentally ill . |
| 6 | In Rotherham , ‘ [ t ] he specific grant has been successfully obtained for a list of improvements which includes : implementing a joint care programme approach to planning and providing services to users ’ , while in Bradford the demands of care programming and care management led to considerable investment in Information Technology : |
| 7 | The builder 's surveyor will be unable to certify payments to the various nominated subcontractors until after the interim certificate has been received from the architect . |
| 8 | The parsing algorithm provided is based on chart-parsing techniques . |
| 9 | The parsing algorithm used is unique to the ANLT ( Phillips , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 11 | The " new " short-term contract working is a conjuncturally specific phenomenon which will recede in importance as the pressures which have induced its appearance weaken . |
| 12 | The premiums for standard cover and accidental damage have been reduced by 7% in respect of buildings cover and 10% in respect of contents cover for members in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The dual responsibilities , to the employer and to the profession , remain problematic : the professional response has been to offer on-line access to ethical guidance . |
| 15 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Howard Wilkinson , the manager who has revived a slumbering Yorkshire giant , offered a brave if predictable public stance — ‘ We 're not throwing in the towel … if we win our last five matches it could be interesting ’ — but privately he must realise that an outstanding opportunity has been lost . |
| 18 | The purchaser will be negotiating the heads from a position of weakness in that it will know far more about the vendor 's business once the due diligence has been completed . |
| 19 | Former Israeli premier Begin is dead |
| 20 | In recent years , moreover , a growing proportion of total grant has been contributed by specific grants ( 17.6 per cent in England , 1981 /2 ; 25.6 per cent in 1987/8 ) , which — being tied , unlike block grant , to specific services — leave authorities with less discretion to determine spending priorities . |
| 21 | In 1945–46 Soviet policy was to encourage cooperation between the moderate leftists and the communists until an administrative framework had been created . |
| 22 | Stephen Darlington 's pacing of each Mass movement is well judged , and would have been even more effective if the intervening mass prospers were better contrasted . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If the usual course had been followed it would have been discovered that there was no second statement , or at least none in Miss Tucker 's present lawyers ' possession . |
| 25 | A LABOUR front-bencher has been told he can not marry his bride in the House of Commons crypt because they are both Roman Catholic . |
| 26 | They had cornered the Jeopardites in a canyon where a few makeshift tents indicated a Jeopardite camp had been discovered . |
| 27 | THE pace of political change has been rapid here , but for no one has it been faster than for Mr Jan Carnogursky , who will be a deputy prime minister . |
| 28 | Despite its success — eight out of 11 young people have got jobs — no definite funding has been body . |
| 29 | That is no longer the case and the position , the author would suggest , is governed by the statement of Lord Reed in Vesty v IRC 31 TC 1 at 120 where he states : I think that Chamberlain 's case shows that the most profitable course to follow is to determine what was the property comprised in the settlement , and that the way to find the property is to look for property charged with rights in favour of beneficiaries . |
| 30 | These examples vie with other reminders of some of the more arcane uses to which human technical ingenuity has been applied : the production of shrunken human heads from South America , or indeed dressed fleas from Mexico . |