Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 2 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 3 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 4 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 5 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 6 | Now the handful of survivors have been made an offer they can not refuse : a last chance to surrender and march out , still beneath the banner of Modernism , straight into the arms of the museum culture — not as prisoners , but as co-belligerents . |
| 7 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 8 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 9 | Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority . |
| 10 | Thus , the published index for April 1985 is no longer a simple Laspeyres index because , since 1974 , the weights have been revised every year . |
| 11 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 12 | In emphasising form and the ‘ gratuitousness ’ to daily concerns Kolve is reflecting the writing of the Dutch anthropologist and philosopher Johan Huizinga ( 1970 ) who also sees play ( in all its senses ) as something apart from ‘ ordinary life ’ and as a means of ‘ creating order ’ . |
| 13 | Now sometimes what salesmen do is suggest the answer , do you do this ? |
| 14 | Some authorities have issued broad discussion documents ; others have been rather more prescriptive ( in Croydon , for example , parents have been given a checklist of skills against which to evaluate their children . |
| 15 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 16 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 17 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 18 | In one market , though , western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected : newspapers . |
| 19 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 20 | Langbaurgh pensioners ' free bus passes have been given a reprieve until the end of April . |
| 21 | GIANT-KILLERS Featherstone Rovers have been handed a plum Regal Trophy draw at home to high-flying St Helens . |
| 22 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 23 | Generally , however , is a qualification : knowing Southerners have been beating a path there since the railways opened up the region . |
| 24 | If the potatoes have been peeled the cooking water can be used for sauces or soups . |
| 25 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 26 | American pilots have been reviewing the evidence of yesterday 's bombing of Iraq . |
| 27 | Most pilots have been shown the effect of gross over-ruddering during their basic training . |
| 28 | Conservationists have been celebrating the success of a campaign to save a series of weirs on the River Avon . |
| 29 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 30 | The former England cricketers have been shown the door at Old Trafford just 24 hours after the departure of manager Alan Ormrod . |