Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year .
2 ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure .
3 Much research on children 's explanations of scientific events has been carried out since the 1970s .
4 Studies of pause patterns in speech have been carried out since the 1950s .
5 It is no longer enough to divide the records into two groups , and the analysis has been carried out on the nine separate groups of records responsible for 10 per cent , 20 per cent , 30 per cent … , 90 per cent packing .
6 Ms Capaldi said a considerable amount of work on data had been carried out in the five months since the report was published .
7 Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research .
8 The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years .
9 At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned .
10 The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals .
11 ‘ Jesus stresses that love of God and love of one 's neighbour are summed up in the Ten Commandments .
12 The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid .
13 LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London .
14 The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves .
15 His government would be committed " at the first stage " to " autonomy and the five-year interim period " which had been spelled out in the 1978 Camp David accords .
16 Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd .
17 The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) .
18 Voice of Vietnam radio reported on Jan. 6 that De Michelis had informed officials of the Italian government 's expanded aid programme for Vietnam , including a US$60,000,000 package to cover new projects to be carried out during the 1993-94 period .
19 Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination .
20 The threat from the Red Army Faction then lessened , though murders continued to be carried out throughout the 1980s and US bases in West Germany were bombed .
21 The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court .
22 A case can be made out for the 1918 election as a Unionist victory rather than a coalition victory .
23 One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up .
24 Adopted by 237 votes to 24 , the amendment to the Constitution , known as the power-sharing law , stipulated that the federal government would retain competence over foreign policy , defence and economic and fiscal strategy , while broad economic powers would be handed over to the two republics .
25 Housing was the first of the public sector programmes to be tied back in the 1960s .
26 SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period .
27 However , he said the defendant did not make any admissions and that those two interviews would be assessed along with the four interviews the previous day .
28 The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy .
29 A small table might be set out for the three bears ' breakfast with three sizes of chair , bowl and so on , together with three sizes of bear for the children to play with .
30 Away from the madding crowds the Sarsfields clubman is to be found down on the 100 acre family farm in Ballyuan presiding over the sheep and cattle .
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