Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " 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 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 3 | The re-examination of NVOCC related rules has been made easier by the FMC regulations implementing the 1984 Shipping Act , as amended in 1990 . |
| 4 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 5 | The production of up-to-date Class Lists has been delayed due to the tardy response of teachers to requests for current details . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Wisdom Books has been appointed exclusive distributor for Snow Lion Publications , US . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 12 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 13 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 14 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 15 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 16 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 19 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 20 | Until that time the convention in painting nudes had been to omit pubic hair altogether . |
| 21 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 22 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 23 | The following sentences have been partially transcribed , but the vowels have been left blank . |
| 24 | Schools have been given greater autonomy and greater exposure to market forces , both of which are significantly altering their information requirements . |
| 25 | The 12 staff employed in European offices have been made redundant . |
| 26 | The twelve staff employed in European offices have been made redundant . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 29 | 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 . ) |
| 30 | Aideed 's fighters have been held responsible for killing 23 Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops on June 5 . |