Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of some of the objects crafted is difficult to understand because many of the finest had a religious significance . |
| 2 | The tribunal will also have considerable discretion in deciding whether or not the reasons given are adequate . |
| 3 | If the reasons given were genuine and clear , it would be easy for unscrupulous shoppers ( in a later application ) to apply in terms which avoided the pitfall . |
| 4 | First , the earliest investment projects undertaken are likely to be the most profitable , i.e. offering the highest expected yearly returns ( R ) , and therefore having the highest marginal efficiencies of investment ( i ) . |
| 5 | What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention . |
| 6 | Is not the most significant point about that list the fact that all the authorities listed are Labour controlled ? |
| 7 | The economic effect of the invasion on ordinary Panamanians has been disastrous . |
| 8 | In the areas most closely concerned with the inner city , opposition from local authorities has been crucial . |
| 9 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 10 | The traditional public finance approach to intergovernmental grants ( or grants-in-aid ) which flow from central ( or federal ) government to local ( or state ) authorities has been concerned with the question of what form the grant should take . |
| 11 | The application of Environmental Assessment ( EA ) to coastal zone projects has been poor , especially under the Government View procedure for dredging licences and under Private and Hybrid Bill Parliamentary Procedures . |
| 12 | None of these requests has been successful . |
| 13 | An attempt by GAMTA to persuade the CAA to allow commercial pilots aged over sixty years to make single-pilot public transport flights for pleasure flying and also to undertake aerial work operations has been unsuccessful so far , the Association reports in the British General Aviation Bulletin . |
| 14 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ What 's happened in the last 24 hours has been unbelievable . |
| 16 | However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly . |
| 17 | Enrolment during the second year of operation of the new programmes has been encouraging , with 721 students enrolling on the Certificate and 144 on the Diploma courses . |
| 18 | Past experience of implementing soil conservation programmes has been disappointing and the paper tries to identify the more important reasons . |
| 19 | But the studio 's recent record of new releases has been dismal . |
| 20 | Simply noting how often node names occur and looking for repeating patterns has been useful . |
| 21 | Since the standard housing of towns and cities has been unable to provide shelter , urban populations have been compelled to take the situation into their own hands and put up their own homes . |
| 22 | Response from the beauty houses has been twofold . |
| 23 | A comprehensive account of the function and characteristic features of traditional barns follows , because it is apparent from even a brief tour of any rural district that the treatment meted out to many old barns in the course of their conversion into houses has been insensitive , or even atrocious , and even these enormities have occurred despite their owners ' clearly expressed intentions to preserve , rather than erase , the ‘ barn-like ’ qualities of the buildings . |
| 24 | In a number of countries for some years , the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory . |
| 25 | The effect on wading birds has been dramatic , with numbers of lapwing , curlew , redshank , godwit and snipe falling dramatically over the past 10 years alone . |
| 26 | The initial reaction by the banking community to the CMI Rules has been skeptical . |
| 27 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 28 | This marketing approach to products has been beneficial for the consumer because it determines what a company will sell based on what the consumer wants , or the market place is ready to discover and buy , rather than on hope and guesswork . |
| 29 | ‘ We did n't have an unlimited budget and , after the first few weeks , the shops stopped being interesting . |
| 30 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |