Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather signs in the sky of the previous evening had foretold correctly but the Ben had been kind to me on my first ascent . |
| 2 | Some of the Trent opens were massive . |
| 3 | Economic progress within the EEC had been satisfactory . |
| 4 | It is quite possible , however , even if her influence within the EEC has been weak , that Britain has nevertheless gained great benefits from her membership . |
| 5 | Britain 's exports to the EEC have been expensive and her imports cheap . |
| 6 | If the Caucasus had been easier to control or the Khan of Khiva less suspicious , the western shore of the Caspian might have become the embarkation point for central Asia . |
| 7 | Data from some of the detailed airborne geophysical surveys made in the early years of the MRP have been digitised . |
| 8 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 9 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 10 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |
| 11 | The Masai have been good friends . |
| 12 | The Netherlands had been happy to accept the supranational principle in advance , but insisted on retaining the right to withdraw from the discussions should it prove impossible in its eyes for the ideas to be turned into economic practice . |
| 13 | The struggle for unification of the opposition in the Netherlands had been difficult , but at least there a much more substantial commercial class could simultaneously fight the Habsburgs and prevent the outbreak of class war . |
| 14 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 15 | The rank and file of both the Socialist movement and the CNT had been frustrated enough at the limitations of social reform under the Republic ; when the Radicals and the right set about negating what little seemed to have been gained , militancy rose to new levels . |
| 16 | On March 23 the NDPD ( which together with the CDU , the DBD and the liberal democrat precursor to the LDP had been one of the four " bloc " parties governing in coalition with the former communist regime — see p. 37025 ) joined the League of Free Democrat — the renamed LDP — to form one faction . |
| 17 | The bill was then sent to the House of Councillors — the Upper House — where , since the election of July 1989 , the LDP had been largest single party but had lacked an overall majority . |
| 18 | Critical acclaim for The Cranberries has been immediate , enthusiastic and forced upon us not just in Ireland but in Britain too , in quantities so large that entire rain forests quake at the knees at the merest mention of this band 's name . |
| 19 | While under Polish rule , the Orthodox hierarchy in the Ukraine had been able to resist the spread of Catholic influence only by adopting many of the methods and some of the ideas characteristic of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 20 | The Molesworths had been impressed , but as they never read the various journals for which Lydia worked they were little the wiser . |
| 21 | From the beginning , indeed , the CNAA had been concerned with the college as a whole , though there were no specific powers in the Charter to oblige it to do so . |
| 22 | In the same year Peter Chambers , at West Midlands College , from amidst the ‘ encircling gloom ’ of the colleges of education , and recognizing the CNAA 's own ‘ in-built conservative practices ’ , felt that ‘ the overall impact of the CNAA has been beneficial for the colleges and that its commitment to innovation is a major factor in curriculum innovation within the colleges of education . |
| 23 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 24 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 25 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 26 | As the government is quick to point out , the level of resources allocated to the NHS has been generous in the past two years , and as a result productivity has increased and the longest waiting times have fallen . |
| 27 | Provider power to shape the service also means that the NHS has been unresponsive to central policy direction and strategic planning . |
| 28 | The history of the allocation of resources within the NHS has been problematic since its establishment . |
| 29 | Since the Noel Hall Report of 1957 , the NHS has been conscious of the need to make special arrangements to ensure its share of good-calibre school leavers and graduates . |
| 30 | The low spending figure is , in part , a tribute to the way the NHS has been able to keep down health costs which have increased much faster in other countries , most notably those with insurance-based systems of finance ( see below ) . |