Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rabbit population , on the other hand , the balance of economic advantage is shifted towards those individual rabbits that are big spenders on equipment for running fast . |
| 2 | In England , the complete technique was applied to serious music ; in September 1935 Elisabeth Schumann recorded both parts of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck 's Hansel und Gretel . |
| 3 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
| 4 | It is apparent , therefore , that differentiation was made between male and female blood , and that circumcision , in its new casting , had some role to play in that context . |
| 5 | However , total regional support was downgraded as both levels of support and areas granted regional status were reduced . |
| 6 | Each division was assessed on each of these fourteen risk elements and compared , element by element , with the corresponding assessments made for the group as a whole . |
| 7 | Each squadron was divided into three troops , each with three sections . |
| 8 | The parsing algorithm is based on chart-parsing techniques and works breadth-first across the input . |
| 9 | In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed . |
| 10 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 11 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 12 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 13 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 14 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 15 | Little progress was made in this field before the 1950s , but in the 1940s a particularly notable drug came to light unexpectedly . |
| 16 | Advanced Computer was founded in 1989 by Jacques Stern , founder of Sesa SA and former chief executive of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , to develop a new generation of European high-performance systems for the scientific , technical and engineering markets . |
| 17 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 18 | A two-thirds majority is needed in each house of the General Synod when voting takes place next Wednesday . |
| 19 | The vote on Jan. 22 by the US House of Representatives to override the presidential veto on the student bill provoked an angry reaction from China , and on Jan. 25 the US Senate narrowly voted to sustain Bush 's veto ; a two-thirds majority was needed in both houses of Congress to overturn a presidential veto . |
| 20 | Each part was cushioned by synovial fluid . |
| 21 | RSPCA thanks rescuers who fought for pony Rescuers who saved a foal from a watery grave were presented with top RSPCA awards at Darlington Town Hall this week . |
| 22 | Each hour was split into five , so that 1 hour = 1.0 ; 12mins = 0.1 . |
| 23 | Each noise is split into different frequency bands in the 20 hertz to 20 kHz range ( equivalent to the range of the human ear ) , and data about each band is fed into the system . |
| 24 | Accordingly , two entire trials for each pairing were subjected to detailed analysis . |
| 25 | Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses . |
| 26 | Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses . |
| 27 | Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses . |
| 28 | Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses . |
| 29 | Friendly support is offered by small groups of mothers and children meeting regularly in the daytime in each others houses . |
| 30 | The outer layer of each hair is made of overlapping cells ( cuticles ) . |