Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 3 | The mass of lead(II) iodide produced was 2.305 g . |
| 4 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 5 | In the lower panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were 250 bp Xba I- Pvu II fragments isolated from the p13-152 derivatives as indicated above each panel . |
| 6 | The implication of it relating strictly to tariff involves an assumption that the tariff advised was 17 years ' detention as punishment for retribution and deterrence . |
| 7 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 8 | Antony Flew 's atheist position is clearly and pungently stated in his God and Philosophy . |
| 9 | The parameters established were good predicators , and the more the cultural barriers to adjustment , the less the satisfaction in these countries . |
| 10 | Matey watched her , dark head bent over her work , hands busy , having mastered the basics of the task with what Matey thought was surprising speed . |
| 11 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 12 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 13 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 14 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 15 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 16 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 17 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 18 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 21 | The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War . |
| 22 | For the first time she regretted being an identical twin ; none of this would have happened if she and Dana had been ordinary sisters , but then you might never have met Roman Wyatt , her subconscious whispered . |
| 23 | Her presence and her loss had been equal disasters . |
| 24 | SHEFFIELD United 's remarkable climb up the First Division continued at the expense of Everton , who are moving just as rapidly in the opposite direction , writes Don Hardisty . |
| 25 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 26 | A second point Velikovsky made was that evidence of such catastrophes could be deduced from ancient writings , oral legends and the like . |
| 27 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 28 | Some half-way point would have to be found , Wright said , which Berle believed was British policy all along . |
| 29 | The average length of the colonic loop studied was 20 cm . |
| 30 | 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 . |