Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Already 10 systems have been sold in the UK , mainly to local authorities , and another 140 have been installed in mainland Europe . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Filming this silver-grey had been very exciting , but for the programme we needed shots of the more typical chocolate-coloured animal , too . |
| 5 | Up to 24 demonstrators had been shot dead and another 30 had been wounded , while seven others had later been executed . |
| 6 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During the past 16 years , by conservative estimates , 782 Chileans have disappeared , another 2,000 have been killed , and several thousands have been tortured . |
| 9 | Another 8,000 had been arrested earlier . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She is another likely to have been denied a post in the Kinnock government that now will not happen . |
| 12 | Another twenty-seven had been students in the imperial cadet corps , the naval academy , the mathematical-navigation school or the Slav — Greek — Latin academy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | A total of nine elements were seen in the slab and its counterpart and some more have been exposed by careful excavation . |
| 17 | It is extremely worrying that in non-diabetics half the cases of hypertension are undiagnosed , half those diagnosed are untreated and of the half that are treated half are inadequately controlled ( WHO Expert Committee on Hypertension , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Most were delivered in embedded systems and over half those shipped were Intel Corp i960s , thanks to the Hewlett-Packard Co LaserJet IV printer design win . |
| 19 | Another 4,000 have been found temporary shelter with families . |
| 20 | The other main initiative to integrate TOP into the Management Review is a programme of team training for Section teams of which some 40-50 have been identified throughout the Station . |
| 21 | Thirty air-raid casualties were admitted to St. Peter 's ; by early August , five of them had died and another five had been discharged . |
| 22 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 23 | The garrison of some 250 had been more than doubled by soldiers seeking refuge , and the corridors were crowded with dead and wounded . |
| 24 | Some carved stone heads rather less than half life-size have been found in Crete , for example the Middle Minoan II head ( 1900–1700 BC ) which was found at Monastiriako Kefali . |
| 25 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 26 | But the Russian air force press centre in Moscow said Maj Shipko 's plane and another SU-27 had been sent to prevent an attack on a paratroop base near the rebel capital of Gudauta , about 20 miles north of the frontline . |
| 27 | The government later announced that 35 prisoners and two policemen had been killed and that another 20 had been seriously wounded ; other sources , however , gave much higher casualty figures . |
| 28 | This significant discover is being further evaluated during 1992 and 1993 , by an extended well test of Tempa Rossa 2 which is currently underway , a new seismic survey and by further drilling including a re-entry and deepening of the original discovery well in the Laurenzana permit . |
| 29 | This creative forming is what we are talking about . |
| 30 | But the odd rumour has gone round that Six has been operating someone big , someone quite high up in the KGB . |