Example sentences of "[art] [adj] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Posh are making a strong promotion challenge and their experienced , hard-running side knocked Liverpool out of the Rumbelows League Cup and impressed in defeat against Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | The woman on the right is rescuing a dog from a factory breeder , her vet found a listless , zombie-like animal with multiple problems . |
| 3 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 4 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 5 | The career of John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , shows that in the late 1430s and 1440s the English were waging an increasingly defensive war : now a stronghold here , now a castle there was coming under attack and being lost . |
| 6 | This was a game which two could play , and the English were to raid the coast of Normandy several times between 1400 and 1410 . |
| 7 | The mere fact that the British are debating the pound 's place in the EMS is enough to worry holders of sterling : perhaps the debate will end with the pound being devalued . |
| 8 | ‘ The British are getting a hit nervous about the draft EEC directive regulating transboundary movement of wastes ’ , he told New Scientist . |
| 9 | The overriding concern of the British was to protect the route to India and to secure their hold on Afghanistan , the buffer between Persian and India . |
| 10 | This became increasingly unpopular , and when the British were granted a monopoly over the sale of Iranian tobacco , massive protests followed and the government was forced to cancel the agreement . |
| 11 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 12 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 13 | For autumn ‘ 92 , the French are enjoying a resurgence as the fashion barometer swings their way once again . |
| 14 | The French were granted an occupation zone mainly thanks to Britain . |
| 15 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 16 | Already , then , it might be seen that the French were digging the pit into which the US would eventually fall . |
| 17 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 18 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 19 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 20 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 21 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 22 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 24 | His chief executive Derek Wanless says the super-rich are feeling the pinch too . |
| 25 | Experts in the held are questioning the basis on which the satanic abuse war is being fought . |
| 26 | The under-17s are catching the senior men in terms of strength in depth , as was proved by Jenny Marie who was doubly unlucky to finish as runner-up twice , in the 800m and 1,500m , both times to Hayley Cole . |
| 27 | The proper state of mind of the dying was to accept the will of God and die at peace with all men . |
| 28 | In the context of a petrol station , the risk-averse are offered a salary plus a small performance bonus for running the station , whereas the less risk-averse are offered petrol at wholesale price and are free to decide how to behave . |
| 29 | Yet even the Japanese are finding the American car market tough . |
| 30 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |