Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 2 | When this has been done the common problems of analysis can be dealt with . |
| 3 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 4 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 5 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And finally , it is the ability to open the arms of memory to welcome them back as a valued part of the whole life experience , with which it is possible to live at peace , without pain , and with a sense of completeness at last ; and when this has been accomplished the bereaved are ready to embrace life again . |
| 7 | The temperature at which this occurs is called the boiling point of the liquid . |
| 8 | This having been done the whole program is in x — IF/ALT , as required , after perhaps some renaming of bound variables . |
| 9 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |
| 10 | A report from Australia on children who had swallowed dishwasher detergent revealed that nearly half had been given the wrong advice and made to vomit . |
| 11 | Some organisations already implement voluntary eco-audits , and some have been piloting the new British Standard 7750 . |
| 12 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 13 | Since 1961 twenty other nations have signed the Treaty , of which six have been acquired the special consultative status accorded to nations that are active in research . |
| 14 | I think there was a feeling yesterday , certainly it 's it 's our view that what that paragraph in P P G three does is to set the basic ground rules . |
| 15 | All the gardens have been chosen by local inspectors , and 80 have been awarded the highest accolade of a two-star rating . |
| 16 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 17 | At best , all any such pill might ever be able to do is to affect the very general housekeeping biochemical processes required for the expression of memory . |
| 18 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 19 | The 1990s have been declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction . |
| 20 | All that remains is to wrap the covering material round and glue it down to the boards . |
| 21 | All that remains is to normalise the actual trade figures in Table 3 , using the " anti-monde " figures in the table above . |
| 22 | Noir had belonged to the Renovator faction of the RPR which since 1989 had been challenging the existing structure of the right [ see pp. 37262 ; 37684 ; 36706 ] . |