Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 2 | It looks like a road sweeper , but the only dirt the operators of this machine are interested in is buried several meters underground . |
| 3 | I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters . |
| 4 | Richard , now happily married with two young children , told Vanity Fair magazine that he feels Jagger is too old to be chasing other women . |
| 5 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 6 | They seem so tiny to be going five mornings a week though . |
| 7 | It made Auntie Lou nervous to be asked direct questions . |
| 8 | Erm because the problem is the school 's s now supposed to be making economic charges er which involves caretaker 's fees plus heating costs and everything . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know I was supposed to be keeping office-boy hours . ’ |
| 10 | The lorry was supposed to be carrying empty containers only . |
| 11 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 12 | The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries . |
| 13 | These checks are only justified if the person is likely to be handling large sums of money or to be exposed to the possibility of bribery . |
| 14 | A gantry traffic light will be installed above the centre of the road , hand railing will provide additional protection for pedestrians , and the bus stop outside Milroy Walk is likely to be moved some metres south and recessed into the wide pavement . |
| 15 | If it does , GPA 's unsecured debt is likely to be jostling all claims on Polly Peck International at roughly one half of one percentage point . |
| 16 | Any high-fat , high-sugar way of eating is likely to be providing fewer nutrients than a low-fat , low-sugar regime with similar overall calorie content . |
| 17 | Most people around are totally unaware that the person is likely to be having such thoughts , who in turn feels they would be deeply shocked if they knew . |
| 18 | Women informal carers are also likely to be carrying heavier responsibilities than male carers . |
| 19 | By this time in the season your apples are likely to be showing advanced signs of scab ( Venturia inaequalis ) . |
| 20 | Though felt rugs are more likely to be traded these days than silk , a number of other commodities are on offer from wicker baskets and wooden cabinets to horses and , in the food line , even doughnuts and bagels . |
| 21 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 22 | The important thing we were concerned with was to keep those fakes off the market , and we were successful in that . |
| 23 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 24 | Indeed , a number of other schemes are being undertaken such as the new granulator at Cambrian Stone 's Llanwern site , due to be completed several weeks ahead of programme , and the new screens and bins at Craigantlet . |
| 25 | Of course , with a name like mine I 'm used to being called all sorts of things . |
| 26 | We 're used to being told dark secrets about dead artists , but suddenly it 's open season on twentieth century public figures . |
| 27 | Although such possessory rights are capable of being disposed inter vivos and can devolve to one 's heirs upon death , the cardinal rule in Islam is that the State can at any time repossess the land if such land is required for the public good . |
| 28 | ‘ They would realise that foreign players think we 're crazy to be playing more matches rather than fewer when our game is faster and more competitive than the rest . |
| 29 | And while established first team players like Kevin Scott and Gavin Peacock are certain to be offered new deals , the new Newcastle boss is already preparing to be ruthless . |
| 30 | The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c |