Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court . |
| 2 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 3 | This problem has been recognised and a variety of methods have been instituted in an attempt to avoid it . |
| 4 | The plight of woodlands in Wales has been analysed and a publicity drive during 1985 is aimed at stimulating interest in protecting and enhancing woodlands throughout the Principality . |
| 5 | Considerable progress has been made but a number of fundamental issues are still with us . |
| 6 | A desk study to establish a basic structural and stratigraphic framework for the UK sector of the Rockall continental margin has been made and a work programme including the acquisition of data has been designed . |
| 7 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 8 | Cobenzl has been announced and a Cobenzl will go . " |
| 9 | An RAF pilot has been killed and a woman civilian seriously injured in an air crash . |
| 10 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 11 | A white Sierra has been recovered and a man arrested . |
| 12 | An AK47 assault rifle used in a number of murder bids has been recovered and a number of people are expected to face terrorist charges in the next few days . |
| 13 | The old yellow smiley badge of the Seventies has been resurrected and a message of harmony , sincere or otherwise , prevails . |
| 14 | Your ability to write and argue is of little avail if you get your facts wrong , fail to find the relevant authorities , rely on a statute that has been superseded or a case that has been overruled , or simply misunderstand the authorities . |
| 15 | Once a report has been laid and a copy placed in the Library , it is available for any Member of Parliament to read . |
| 16 | In most cases after the cause of movement has been established and a course of action has been decided upon , such as drain repairs , tree removal , etc , it will be necessary to monitor the property to see whether the movement is progressive or whether the property will stabilise without the need for major repairs such as underpinning . |
| 17 | A further feature is the fact that the old trackbed was halved and a footpath follows the whole route . |
| 18 | In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project . |
| 19 | A : ah a book that had been written or a piece of music that had been written or a painting or a — |
| 20 | A : ah a book that had been written or a piece of music that had been written or a painting or a — |
| 21 | On 24 April 1990 , soon after the old board of Astra had been toppled and a week after parts of the Iraqi Supergun were seized by Customs at Teesside , John was arrested at his son 's home in Fort William , Scotland , by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 22 | On the timing of negotiations on the prospective EC membership of those European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) states which had submitted applications , the meeting stated that official negotiations should not start until ratification of the Maastricht Treaty had been completed and a decision on the Delors II package had been taken . |
| 23 | A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned . |
| 24 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 25 | Fragments common to many strains of the AIDS virus had been identified and a candidate vaccine was being developed which was expected to produce antibodies against more than 80 per cent of these strains . |
| 26 | A police spokesman said that 14 people had been arrested and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal . |
| 27 | The reason for the exultation , the explanation of how this sense of craving had been mollified and a sense of sexual peace bestowed on the lyrics was simple : Marianne had come into his arms ; that golden apparition of loveliness , that lithe , sensuous , intelligent being of intuition and sympathy ; a gift of the gods to rank — and outrank — anything so far told in the surrounding mythology of his adopted Greek homeland ! |
| 28 | By 1987 seven county-based PPA referral schemes had been established and a branch scheme set up in the eighth county . |
| 29 | On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase . |
| 30 | His horse had been slaughtered and a shotgun had been fired through his window at dead of night . |