Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] are [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it has to be admitted that pecuniary considerations are only a guide and there is authority that defective goods can be unmerchantable per se , for example as in the case of underpants impregnated with sulphate ( Grant v Australian Knittings Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 ) . |
| 2 | Second , we should not forget that political parties are only a part of the political system and they are not in sole control of Britain 's economic destiny . |
| 3 | It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid . |
| 4 | Hidden commitments of this kind are often the result of using particular words ( here , " the " ) or phrases or constructions . |
| 5 | The clay tiles that surround this text are just a taste of the wealth of colours , forms and textures that await you . |
| 6 | Some doubts are directly a matter of theology , others only indirectly , if at all . |
| 7 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 8 | In order to understand how such a theory might be constructed we should begin by recognizing that social movements are essentially a phenomenon of modern societies . |
| 9 | It is important to remember , however , that explanations of this type are also the stock-in-trade of such subjects as demography and criminology , which aim to establish generalisations relating social factors to human behaviour . |
| 10 | Dry , crisp cakes are often the result of an oven temperature that is too hot . |
| 11 | If the answer is yes , public subsidies are simply a transfer payment to Airbus shareholders , for which there is no strong economic rationale . |
| 12 | The hard fact is however that such altruistic dealers are still the rarity and more often than not the innocent computer customer will come face to face with an almost equally innocent computer sales person ! |
| 13 | Sociologists have also strongly questioned the fallacy that social problems are necessarily the product of ‘ bad ’ things . |
| 14 | Both personal and social transformation are also the goal of the churches . |
| 15 | In the general hospital , where visitors pour through every day of the week , physical humiliation is less likely though ward rounds by some consultants are still an exercise in treating the patient as a malfunctioning piece of machinery . |
| 16 | Old people are often a source of fascinating information and opinion about the past that young people are being taught as history ! |
| 17 | Important concepts in the social sciences are largely the product of their political and socio-economic environment and the human capital theory is no exception . |
| 18 | Slowish tempos are also the order of the day in Book 2 , where the demisemiquavers of ‘ La terrasse des audiences ’ seem deliberate and its atmosphere too clearly lit , while ‘ Ondine ’ begins too loudly and its scherzando marking goes unrealized . |
| 19 | Followers of Scottish football know only too well that a lapse in form and a broken leg are often the precursor of disasters to come . |
| 20 | It is well known that the Albanians , who predominate in Kosovo and in parts of western Macedonia , tend to have very large families , Such rapid rates of growth of population in areas of poverty and high unemployment are naturally a matter of great concern to the authorities . |
| 21 | ‘ The five-storey concrete tenement slums built by housing boards all over this country are really the work of pessimists . |
| 22 | A few weeks of residential treatment are merely a scratch on the surface of the disease — but it is a deep scratch and it may help many more sufferers into recovery than might otherwise be successful through depending upon the AnonymouS Fellowships alone . |
| 23 | The discrepancies among published reports are partly a result of the very considerable scatter of ratios between the different enzymes in normal subjects . |
| 24 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 25 | ‘ The talks between a French envoy and a Scottish monarch are hardly a matter for an envoy of King Edward of England ! ’ |
| 26 | Social Services are really a help , we could choose to ignore that , I have to say that I 'm not aware of that happening , and I think it 's very unlikely . |
| 27 | For Garfinkel , the founder of ethnomethodology , social events are entirely the product of the actions of those ‘ members ’ involved at any particular moment . |
| 28 | The same applies , I believe , to the question under discussion , except that while our sexual desires are now the subject of free and frank discussion , our homicidal ones still dare not speak their name . |
| 29 | With only 38 hectares , its few vineyards are merely an extension of Bouzy 's , growing over the ridge of the Bois des Dames and down the slopes of forested valley in which Louvois is situated . |
| 30 | With no village shop , bus service or school , the village church and public house are now the focus of activity in the parish , with little to mar the tranquillity of the quiet backwater . |