Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 2 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 3 | A second point Velikovsky made was that evidence of such catastrophes could be deduced from ancient writings , oral legends and the like . |
| 4 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 5 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 6 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 7 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 8 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 9 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 10 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 11 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 12 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 14 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 15 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 16 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 17 | The inference viewers gained was that management was to blame in one way or another . |
| 18 | To recapitulate : what Schopenhauer demonstrated is that music differs in character and origin from the other arts because they represent phenomena , while music represents metaphysical reality directly . |
| 19 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 20 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 21 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 22 | Andréew Fisher had been another contemporary from Sydney and an ability to write , a law degree , and a background in student papers and films made him a choice to handle much of the business side . |
| 23 | Each day the Applecross café was completely full , each person whether fat or thin , ordered a three course meal , breakfast , lunch or tea , and each pill swallowed was another cake sold . |
| 24 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 25 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 26 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 27 | Part of the reason suggested being that money is tighter in the public sector so there is more pre-planning and costing before organisational changes are allowed to proceed . |
| 28 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 29 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
| 30 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |