Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed . |
| 32 | There is a down side to this heightened immediacy in that spurious noises ( many of them unavoidable ) such as chair creaking , pages turning or performers grunting are made all to recognizable and more difficult to ignore . |
| 33 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 34 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 35 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 36 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 37 | Job prospects for aspiring pilots have been dealt another blow this autumn . |
| 38 | In the end only one or two small sub-programmes have been investigated each year . |
| 39 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 40 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 41 | She 's had more people in there , the dogs have been left more hours that |
| 42 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 43 | British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures . |
| 44 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 45 | The NHS Management Executive has now created a prescribing team , one of whose first actions has been to require that prescribing is a priority for medical advisers . |
| 46 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |
| 47 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 48 | In July 1969 , the select committee reported in favour of the publication both of the five-year rolling programme in the form of an annual White Paper with a full explanation of what changes had been made that year , and of the Medium Term Economic Assessment . |
| 49 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 50 | Fears have been expressed that timber cladding could suffer from Britain 's cold and damp climate , but the location on the south bank of the Thames estuary at Thamesmead should test the method to extreme : in winter the fog rolls in directly from Denmark . |
| 51 | At lower levels , too , cost-centre managers have been given more flexibility with personnel management providing a greater link between performance and promotion ( Thorpe |
| 52 | No average for the country is available for comparison , but compared with other areas where similar surveys have been made this figure is regarded as a high one . |
| 53 | Structural traps for Barren Measures ' sandstone reservoirs are provided by Mesozoic block-faulting and other more subtle plays have been identified such as ‘ reef ’ developments in the Lower Carboniferous and onlap/'pinch-out' of sands within the Millstone Grit . |
| 54 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 55 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 56 | An early book on techniques in geomorphology ( King , 1966 ) covered the range then available , specific manuals have been produced such as the US Geological Survey Techniques of Water Resources Investigations and the Technical Bulletins of the British Geomorphological Research Group , and an edited manual of geomorphological techniques ( Goudie , 1981a ) embraces the earlier developments . |
| 57 | Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins . |
| 58 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 59 | Several studies have been produced that point to correspondences between French fabliaux and intellectual ( scholarly ) currents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries . |
| 60 | Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ? |