Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 2 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 4 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 5 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 6 | More recently , there 'd been further reappraisal of America 's bluesmeisters and U2 hauled in BB King to jointly provide a Top Ten single in ‘ When Love Comes To Town ’ , while Gary Moore charted with the aid of Albert King . |
| 7 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |
| 8 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 9 | There 'd been Holy Communion at eight this morning , and afternoon prayers . |
| 10 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 11 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 12 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 14 | SHEFFIELD United 's remarkable climb up the First Division continued at the expense of Everton , who are moving just as rapidly in the opposite direction , writes Don Hardisty . |
| 15 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 16 | In 1910 Taylor 's fellow missionary , Alice Burt , published her Swahili Grammar amd Vocabulary ; the standard of Swahili adopted was that set by Taylor . |
| 17 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |
| 18 | Shand is not unlike John Heard 's crippled alcoholic in Cutter 's Way , the year 's other stand-out movie , raging against the dying light , fulminating at forces beyond his control . |
| 19 | In other words the money spent was one way of stopping ‘ leakage ’ to other denominations ; the new chapels also tended to enhance loyalty and to lessen disaffection over trifling matters . |
| 20 | The increasing incidence of anal cancer we observed was apparent well before the sexual liberation in Denmark in the late 1960s and early 1970s , but the possibility exists that a potentially carcinogenic agent has become increasingly common in the anal region as a result of changing sexual habits . |
| 21 | All we heard was one scream for a bobby like you know , and they turned the lights on . |
| 22 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 23 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 24 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 25 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 26 | I went in first and all I saw was standard classroom with a blackboard down one wall , two lines of plain tables and some wooden chairs . |
| 27 | Thus they often promoted what their leaders knew was mediocre art in the interests of all their members . |
| 28 | A lumpish Belgian girl called Lise who did menial tasks about the house but hardly ever spoke was grating cheese over a rice dish . |
| 29 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 30 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |