Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 4 | The parameters established were good predicators , and the more the cultural barriers to adjustment , the less the satisfaction in these countries . |
| 5 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 6 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 7 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 11 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 12 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 13 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 14 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 15 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 16 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 17 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 18 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 21 | They may have been intending to talk about reform of the Labour Party constitution , but what ordinary trade unionists heard was senior members of the Party talking as if they were ashamed of the trade union connection . |
| 22 | Ever since the heroes in women 's magazine stories started being advertising executives , advertising has been considered a " glamour " job . |
| 23 | Among the topics discussed was Italian credits to Russia . |
| 24 | The Taylor report found some responsibility for the tragedy lay with the stadium 's management , some with the fans and some with the South Yorkshire police , and suggested that senior officers had been dubious witnesses . |
| 25 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 26 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 27 | The inference viewers gained was that management was to blame in one way or another . |
| 28 | It must be noted , however , that the problems set were simple ones for which the model employed was an optimal fit — thus solutions were actually optimal . |
| 29 | In Robinson 's ( 1955 ) experiment the stimuli used were 10 fingerprints . |
| 30 | Among several abnormalities noted were low serum and red cell glutathione concentrations ( red cell glutathione 1.1 mmol/l ( normal 1.6–2.8 mmol/l ) , serum glutathione 3.2 µmol/l ( normal 3.8–8.2 µmol/l ) ) . |