Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are less constrained and have more individuality in their ‘ civvy ’ clothes , although there are strict , but unwritten rules about what is acceptable dress ( sombre suits and ties ) and what is disordered and undisciplined ( jeans , T-shirts , training shoes , and the like ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear — do n't allow his obsession for everything being first class at the Wilderness get under your skin . |
| 3 | The offices are I think the offices are I think , for the offices between them were ten pound fifty last time . |
| 4 | These chemicals are , by general definition , detergents although the term has now come to be restricted to a group of synthetic chemicals which have very specific effects the result of which is that dirt is taken into suspension in a stable form that allows it to be rinsed away . |
| 5 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 6 | The irony of it is that Hawkeye was the progenitor of every Western hero , down to John Wayne in The Searchers , who by that time is a racist . |
| 7 | The main criterion of what is good training is to reach the National Vocational Qualification ( NVQ ) , which is a standard recognised by government , industry and business . |
| 8 | The essence of it is that information is material if it is likely to make a difference in user evaluations of financial statements . |
| 9 | There is more to say about this problem , but the essence of it is this question of fact . |
| 10 | The opposition against him was straight prejudice , and a commentary upon the social conservatism of mid-Victorian trade unionists . |
| 11 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 12 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 13 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 14 | Setting intermediate goals and providing an assessment of them is another way that feedback can help the student adjust her learning . |
| 15 | ‘ If a man will take a view of all Popery ’ , wrote the late sixteenth-century Calvinist theologian William Perkins , ‘ he shall easily see that a great part of it is mere magic . ’ |
| 16 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 17 | We accept the view advanced by Parton ( 1981 ) that all debate over the proper role of the state in guaranteeing acceptable family life for children centres on judgments of what is acceptable parenting and child behaviour , and that such judgments are essentially influenced by the ideological context . |
| 18 | Our team of judges — the majority of them are National Vegetable Society judges — report that competition standards are up . |
| 19 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 20 | There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work . |
| 21 | They take into themselves that judgement of what is unacceptable behaviour ( ‘ internalization ’ ) , a step on the road to forming a conscience . |
| 22 | ( The measure of what is satisfactory will , as always , be fixed by a given practical or theoretical purpose . ) |
| 23 | Apparently this particular branch is receiving more than 11,000 pieces of post every week and a high proportion of it is non-essential correspondence ‘ such as simple acknowledgments of previous transaction ’ . |
| 24 | The catholicism of McGrath 's tastes , coupled with the contacts of Miles and his wife Sue Miles , and the input of Trocchi , Moore — whom McGrath had introduced to Haynes — and Hopkins were the core of It 's initial success . |
| 25 | BECAUSE ‘ Mad , Scared , Dumb And Gorgeous ’ debut from a new duo , one half of which is former Furniture vocalist Jim Irvin |
| 26 | That raises the question of what is good technique ; sometimes what is normally seen as ‘ bad ’ technique can be good technique . |
| 27 | You get good bedder hay or good , some mixture , good , good sand , a bit of sand with it is good hay . |
| 28 | The footnotes by themselves are worthwhile reading . |
| 29 | NO , it 's not an epitaph for you-know-who 's dying career . |
| 30 | Bürger in such a context would assimilate both ‘ realist ’ and ‘ modernist ’ art to autonomous and bourgeois art , the only distinction between them being that modernism with its inaccessibility and greater cult of the creator is even more autonomous , more ‘ auratic ’ , than realism . |