Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [been] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 2 | As I see him sitting there now , sheltered under a derelict building 's covered way , one which has been empty for a tedious never-ending era , with an unchangeable lifestyle , erected for nothing but with such a prospect for life , if used properly . |
| 3 | So not only do you get a full commercial system , but you also reap the benefits of a set-up which has been tailor-made for the hotel trade , without sacrificing any of the functions . |
| 4 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 5 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 6 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 7 | As a consequence of its success , the Northumbrian establishment which had been responsible for the débâcle of Nechtanesmere and the limited recovery under Aldfrith perpetuated itself in power a little longer and sporadic warfare with the Picts was resumed . |
| 8 | Factors in the resignation of Cardoso de Mello 's team — which had been responsible for the anti-inflation programmes of March 1990 and February 1991 — were variously said to include the unpopularity in business and banking sectors of their interventionist policies , the combative style adopted in negotiations with international debtors , recent clashes with members of the President 's inner circle , including regional development secretary Egberto Baptista who had been accused of malpractice , and Cardoso de Mello 's affair in 1990 with the then Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral [ see p. 37773 ] . |
| 9 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |
| 10 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 11 | What remains to be seen now is whether the US will shift its economic and military support to Arena , the party behind the ’ death squads ’ which have been responsible for the murder of thousands of Salvadoreans . |