Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the present conditions of economic recession , regional policies are fighting a losing battle . |
| 2 | It had approved Jean Monnet 's proposal for a Commissariat Général au Plan , the institution whose economic plans were to play an important role in France 's postwar modernization . |
| 3 | But if Mosley 's practical search for radical economic policies was to provide a meaningful response to solve the problems of inter-war Britain , both Chesterton and Williamson survived by developing the higher metaphysical values derived from aesthetic appreciation of literature . |
| 4 | The factor that governs all cutlery sales is its cost and Young of The Direct Tableware Company warns that big Korean manufacturers are increasing the minimum orders from importers . |
| 5 | Political pundits are keeping a close eye on the sticky survey . |
| 6 | It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three . |
| 7 | Attractive new semis , terraced and detached houses are replacing the old concrete eyesores . |
| 8 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 9 | But whether diminishing returns are taking an increasing effect is a pertinent conundrum . |
| 10 | The activities of MIR and others associated with clandestine operations were to take a separate , but not unrelated , course mainly from the activities of the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) . |
| 11 | Fish-oil lamps were casting a yellow light on the damp paving stones of the quay , and a quarter moon was rising above the village . |
| 12 | After watching a film of a car accident some subjects were asked the two questions in ( 3 ) . |
| 13 | She had the feeling that those dark brown eyes were noting every little detail , from the bright flush of her skin to the faint quiver of her lower lip . |
| 14 | But now a more menacing threat was posed for Russia : massed German units were attacking the Polish salient from the north , while Austro-German armies thrust up from the southeast — precisely the strategy that the Austrian commander General Conrad von Hötzendorff had advocated in 1914 . |
| 15 | Visibility on both motorways was down to 50 yards but some drivers were speeding a few feet from the vehicle in front . |
| 16 | Katharine cantered Benji in a smaller and smaller circle , keeping a strong outside rein so that his hind legs were marking a smaller circle and working towards a canter pirouette . |
| 17 | The civic visitors were given an extensive tour of the showroom , factory , visitor centre and museum . |
| 18 | Electricians working on high step-ladders were hanging an elegant modern chandelier , there was a smell of fresh paint and sawdust , and against one wall rolls of polythene-wrapped carpeting gleamed in the thin March sunshine . |
| 19 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 20 | Some companies are embracing the new credo with more caution . |
| 21 | A law which regulates the ability of a local authority to display venereal disease posters in public places is given the same weighting as a law which expands the welfare state substantially through the provision of free school education or establishes a free health service . |
| 22 | Some observers are predicting the imminent collapse of the military regime which has ruled Ethiopia for 15 years . |
| 23 | University College London has for some years been offering a one-year postgraduate diploma course in librarianship to experienced graduate teachers . " |
| 24 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 25 | The only way to test these predictions in the space of a few years is to observe a sufficient number of protons and see if a few decay . |
| 26 | But the question we must ask is why so many British workers are getting a two-week break when other European workers are making do with just three days ' holiday . |
| 27 | The campaign for the upper house elections — where one half of the 252 seats were contested every three years — began formally on July 8 . |
| 28 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 29 | As UK interest rates continue to fall , some investors are examining the Permanent Interest Bearing Shares ( PIBS ) of building societies where yields are still high . |
| 30 | system 624 and 2331 owners are offered a one-day course . |