Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties for employment , are that due to the drop in the birth rate in 64–77 the number of school leavers has dropped — 5.7 million in 1991 compared with 6.2 million in 1986 , with a projected drop to 4.9 million by 1996 . |
| 2 | If you 're that skint you can have them . ’ |
| 3 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 4 | The date it 's been and updated . |
| 5 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 6 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 7 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 8 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 9 | Nan Ron from the erm London Centre for Dance , he 's been and given master classes , and all that kind of activity is going on , which I think makes a very lively and exhilarating school . |
| 10 | The condition is conveniently expressed by where Taking the square root of both sides of equation ( 9.50 ) , the quadratic equation is obtained which has roots or , since only positive pulsatances have physical meaning Substituting for k from equation ( 9.48 ) , these pulsatances are and imposing condition ( 9.51 ) establishes that the pulsatance range corresponding to is In this range of pulsatance , the attenuation constant is zero , but from equation ( 9.15 ) there is a phase shift per section given by In the range which corresponds to pulsatances satisfying and , where and are the critical pulsatances defined in condition ( 9.52 ) , the phase shift is but there is attenuation characterised by an attenuation constant α where Perhaps surprisingly , condition ( 9.52 ) yields the simple relationship |
| 11 | It has now been recognised that often the company , and indeed the regulatory authorities and the public , may need to be able to find out who the beneficial owners are and other sections , dealt with later , seek to enable them to find out . |
| 12 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 13 | At balance of the bridge or Equating real and imaginary parts reveals that the double balance conditions are and Independent attainment of these balance conditions is not possible . |
| 14 | We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals . |
| 15 | Have many children , he told me , for children are and old man 's only defence against the blows of fate I obeyed him . |
| 16 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 17 | HAMLET : I am but mad north north-west ; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 18 | If ‘ Two Pints Of Wazzer ’ and ‘ Clean As Clark ’ are dull , overdone and in danger of slipping into pantomime rather than humorous satire , they are but mere red herrings before the frenzied energy and monstrous drum rolls of ‘ Japanese Girls ’ and ‘ Later F—Off ’ . |
| 19 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 20 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 21 | These are but abstract possibilities . |
| 22 | The same applied to the notion of non-cooperation : ‘ Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called Satyagraha . ’ |
| 23 | The 12 traditions of each Anonymous Fellowship are all derived from those of Alcoholics Anonymous and they protect against this particular risk by emphasising that the most important member is the newcomer and that leaders are but trusted servants ; they do not govern . |
| 24 | These are but single plants though and therefore not so beautiful , long lasting or so worthy of praise as ‘ all flowers and all trees ’ in the garden . |
| 25 | Although the previous studies have not demonstrated any simple relationship between previous knowledge of junctions and memory performance , this may have been because multiple exemplars of each junction were presented in the recognition studies . |
| 26 | This could hardly have been because large ears suited the climate ( there are strong offshore winds ) . |
| 27 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 28 | The pieces on loan to Asprey 's , from 26 November to 24 December , are eighteenth-nineteenth-and twentieth-century in date . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) that in any year there should be where possible an equal number of Major and Minor awards |
| 30 | There should be where possible only one and not more than two interviews for the purposes of evaluation , and the interview should not be too long . |