Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected . |
| 32 | The leader of Britain 's biggest union has been touring an old industrial battleground , to see how times have changed . |
| 33 | Mick Hardy , Trinity House River Lights Attendant , who is responsible for the seven shore lights along the Thames , has been waging an escalating battle against vandalism which , he says , increases during school holidays . |
| 34 | My main part has been to design an adjustable bracket to attach to the alternator and tension the pulley . |
| 35 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 36 | For five centuries , society has been seeking an aesthetic constitution correspondent to its civilization . |
| 37 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 38 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 39 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 40 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |
| 41 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 42 | Kay Partridge ( Dr Davies ) has been granted an Honorary D.Sc. , University of Victoria , Canada . |
| 43 | English Nature , the statutory body which advises the government on nature conservation in England , has been allocated an additional £1.04 million for the protection and management of wildlife sites . |
| 44 | He has been promised an initial six-match run . |
| 45 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 46 | It soon failed , but the novel idea has been considered an important precursor of the later work of Sir Ebenezer Howard [ q.v . ] . |
| 47 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |
| 48 | Perhaps the main defence has been to construct an imagined community of resistance which cuts across all internal divisions by emphasizing the levelling effects of racist oppression . |
| 49 | The government 's response has been to impose an unpopular and inflationary emergency programme . |
| 50 | US President-elect Bill Clinton has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from University College , Oxford , where he studied in 1968 and '69 . |
| 51 | THE Japanese tycoon who dreamt up the Sony Walkman has been awarded an honorary knighthood . |
| 52 | Rachel Young has been awarded an Honorary M.A. ‘ for services to history ’ by the University of East Anglia . |
| 53 | Julie Dixon , who was eighteen at the time of the murder , has been awarded an undisclosed sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the loss of parental support she suffered . |
| 54 | And the party has been devising an environmentally-friendly economic strategy . |
| 55 | Each player has been set an individual achievement target , and has the security of a year-long period in which to prove himself . |
| 56 | NCR Corp has been demonstrating an enhanced version of its Co-operation environment at UniForum in San Francisco , and says that it provides enhanced scalable , enterprise-wide support , including broadened server scalability ; enhanced desktop capabilities ; single point , local or remote , system administration ; access to object-based frameworks ; updated versions of all third-party components including Windows 3.1 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's NewWave 4.1 ; access to the Informix database ; and improved diary , mail and information access . |
| 57 | Malcolm Reilly , reported to be ‘ shocked ’ by Bettinson 's dismissal , has been offered an up-graded title of coach/ manager while Maurice Lindsay , the Wigan chairman , replaces Bettinson and assumes the title of tour director and business manager . |
| 58 | Malcolm Reilly , reported to be ‘ shocked ’ by Bettinson 's dismissal , has been offered an up-graded title of coach/ manager while Maurice Lindsay , the Wigan chairman , replaces Bettinson and assumes the title of tour director and business manager . |
| 59 | Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice . |
| 60 | One of the world 's top snooker players has been gracing an unlikely stage . |