Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Bristol detectives who disarmed a violent knifeman are to receive commendations for bravery . |
| 2 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
| 3 | The imposition of this ‘ necessity constraint ’ on holist explanation is enough to separate it from the individualist view that to describe the individual traits which caused a social phenomenon is to explain it . |
| 4 | The friends of the Queen belong to a small coterie of aristocrats , the children are educated exclusively ( one of the reasons Gordonstoun seemed a good bet was because , unlike metropolitan Eton , it was miles away in rural Scotland ) , and all are limited to a narrow circle of suitable acquaintances . |
| 5 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 6 | And Graham Taylor 's argument that we played a reserve team is as leaky as his defence . |
| 7 | And Graham Taylor 's argument that we played a reserve team is as leaky as his defence . |
| 8 | Over her eleven year premiership the only substantial issue of penal policy in which Mrs Thatcher played a decisive part was the privatization of prisons and remand centres , and the contracting out of certain criminal justice services . |
| 9 | A spokesperson for the band confirmed a national tour is currently being pieced together for late autumn . |
| 10 | ( A second point , upon which Warburton J. based a dissenting judgment is omitted . ) |
| 11 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 12 | Sailing up the North Sea Canal from Ymuiden to Amsterdam we passed a familiar-looking tug being re-fitted in one of the Dutch shipyards . |
| 13 | Exactly when Blake became a Russian spy is hard to determine . |
| 14 | ( An able pupil of mine who became a successful solicitor was glad he did not become a barrister , who in his experience is driven too hard ; the clerk piles too much work on him , he has no one to delegate to , and has virtually no assistance except of a secretarial kind ; also , counsel in general common law practice has much travelling to do . ) |
| 15 | Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard . |
| 16 | The quiet closing of the door as the other two men made a tactical retreat was also ignored . |
| 17 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 18 | By the end of the campaign , Labour identifiers who read a right-wing paper were 6 per cent more favourable to Thatcher and 6 per cent less favourable to Kinnock than Labour identifiers who did not . |
| 19 | The same study found that people who read a daily paper were more likely to watch the news on TV than people who did not . |
| 20 | Last night Bowe 's manager , Rock Newman , revealed a new deal was in the pipeline . |
| 21 | Not even when I got a new baby was it . |
| 22 | A ROTTWEILER dog which attacked a three-year-old girl was humanely destroyed yesterday . |
| 23 | THREE teenage youths who attacked a lone policewoman were being hunted yesterday . |
| 24 | Police officers who expressed a racist ideology are certainly a small minority . |
| 25 | A SPEEDING motor-cyclist who knocked down and killed a 73-year-old man was fined £2,000 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 26 | The lengthy , complicated and interesting case of Richard of Anstey ( of some two generations before Innocent III 's time ) shows how it was already accepted that the Crown could have no jurisdiction over the solemn sacrament of marriage , though at this stage the canon law of marriage and what actually constituted a legal marriage was extremely fluid . |
| 27 | A HOODED man who raped a 19-year-old student is thought to be responsible for at least six other sex attacks over the past two years . |
| 28 | The company , which prides itself on its environmental record , decided a final solution was needed to avoid in one fell swoop the seasonal embarrassment of leaves on the line . |
| 29 | This view holds that what Eisenhower called a military-industrial complex is , in fact , nothing of the sort . |
| 30 | And the company stressed a major attraction was the number of jobs created . |