Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 2 | What is more , many naturally-occurring chemicals are highly toxic : the natural foods we eat are stiff with potentially damaging chemicals — plants , in particular , spike their products with an armoury of defensive substances ( see p 15 ) , fungi on the plants contribute their own toxins , and the bacteria in our gut add to the number we absorb . |
| 3 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 4 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 5 | Some common names are OK ( Oscar , Jack Dempsey , Convict are current throughout the UK ) but ‘ Yellow Dwarf Cichlid ’ could be any one of several dwarfs from Africa or South America , and ‘ Butterfly Cichlid ’ can mean at least two different fish . |
| 6 | For two lexical items A and B we can ask whether the respective classes of entities they denote are identical , disjunct , overlapping , or whether one includes the other . |
| 7 | Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief . |
| 8 | Shuvorn has gorn off picking daisies in Katie Jane Garside doolally-land and the new one who used to pose in leather mags is no longer , but the two ‘ Nanas that remain are fitter and leaner than ever . |
| 9 | The issues that they raise are complex , and procedurally they affect the responsibilities of a large number of bodies , both in Government and outside it . |
| 10 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 11 | Many of the issues you raise are important , and are being addressed . |
| 12 | You can borrow up to six items at any one time and most items you borrow are due back in 28 days ( not a month ) , but some in heavy demand are due back in 14 days . |
| 13 | Now the choices and values are not only what I trust are right choices and correct beliefs ; they are my choices , my beliefs , my convictions |
| 14 | But I suppose they 're all boys really , I mean are all boys like this really ? |
| 15 | Often , what someone says and what they really mean are two different things . |
| 16 | I mean er does it bother you at all that well I mean are most of the men managers ? |
| 17 | I mean are these noodles or |
| 18 | Well , different utilities , different roads are being destroyed , bridges , I mean are these things going on ? |
| 19 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 20 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 21 | The checks that we make are quick but thorough as we take our responsibilities seriously-no one wants to add to an existing debt problem . |
| 22 | If you want to carry the smallest possible quantity of water or get the best possible price in the market , the judgements you make are important in a way those made in a water tray or school shop can never be . |
| 23 | He and the staff of Safe-Buy are responsible for checking the credentials of every firm applying for membership . |
| 24 | Despite their elaborate plumage , peafowl are competent fliers and can frequently be seen in trees ( right ) . |
| 25 | Search and replace are two very useful facilities found on the majority of word-processors . |
| 26 | The Flight levels at which you fly are odd and even . |
| 27 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 28 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 29 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 30 | Comment is free , fax are sacred |