Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 8 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 9 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 10 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 11 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |
| 12 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 13 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 14 | What superlatives , comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set . |
| 15 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 16 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 17 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 18 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 19 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 20 | Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site . |
| 21 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 22 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 23 | No significant onshore placers are currently known but some offshore areas have been investigated such as the Mawddach estuary , near Dolgellau in North Wales , which was considered a prospect by RioFinex during the late 1960s . |
| 24 | Rats have been sighted several times in the Hundens Lane area and Darlington Council 's environmental health department say all rubbish should be kept securely bundled and no scraps of food should be left . |
| 25 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 26 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 27 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 28 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 29 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 30 | Successive new syntheses have been published both of the history of the party and of the revolution , and with each edition they have tended to become more detailed , more finely nuanced , more subtle . |