Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling . |
| 5 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 6 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |
| 7 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 8 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A second legacy of Tiananmen has been increasing tension over the course of Hong Kong 's political development , with just six months remaining before China 's parliament is due to enact the mini-constitution , or Basic Law , setting out the pattern of post-1997 government . |
| 11 | One focus to this resistance has been realistic plot-paradigms which Sukenick constantly subverts in the interest of getting nearer to the real . |
| 12 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 13 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 14 | The mass of lead(II) iodide produced was 2.305 g . |
| 15 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 16 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 17 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 18 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 19 | Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway . |
| 20 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 21 | But when states have tried an outright ban , as some have , the result has been illicit stills , producing deadly brews that have blinded and killed thousands over the years . |
| 22 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 23 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 24 | Europe 's regional economic development programme has been designated objective to status to Plymouth . |
| 25 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 26 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 27 | Since the acquisition of Mercia Weavers by the Stoddard Group in 1988 , Ronnie has been Chief Designer of the Runcorn Studio which specializes in Contract carpeting . |
| 28 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 29 | Yet for months the world 's promotions industry has been busy marking — and marketing — the event . |
| 30 | Since last November the average settlements recorded by Rewards ' clients has been 5 p.c . |