Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition . |
| 2 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 3 | Wisdom Books has been appointed exclusive distributor for Snow Lion Publications , US . |
| 4 | The occult views yoga as a system of mind-control , and the postures adopted are to facilitate certain types of breathing to help the practitioner get in union with the force . |
| 5 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 6 | Propeller manufacturers Hartzell are offering three-blade propeller installations on the Piper Arrow , Mooney 20C-G , 201 , 231 , and 252 , and Cessna 177B/177RG Cardinal . |
| 7 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 8 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 9 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 10 | These anomalous crustal fragments have been given various names-suspect terrane , allochthonous terrane-but we will use the term displaced terrane ( Note that in this book the spelling ‘ terrane ’ is used to refer to structural units whereas ‘ terrain' is applied in a topographic sense . ) |
| 11 | Three backbenchers have been appointed junior whips : Mr Andrew Mackay , MP for Berkshire East , Mr Robert Hughes , MP for Harrow West and Mr James Arbuthnot , MP for Wanstead and Woodford . |
| 12 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 13 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 14 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 15 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 16 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
| 17 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 18 | The development of the gardens has been given high priority and there is a large variety of named trees and shrubs . |
| 19 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 20 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 21 | Employees and contractors have been given preferential treatment and get the total amount applied for . |
| 22 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 23 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 24 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 25 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 26 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 27 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 28 | The ban aimed at eliminating the ivory market , which many conservationists believed was fuelling widespread poaching which reduced Africa 's elephant population from an estimated 1.2 million to 609,000 in the last decade . |
| 29 | News that the Islands ' social workers had been given professional stress therapy astounded the families and their support organisation . |
| 30 | But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care . |