Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 2 | There may be more than one relationship between two entities , for example , in this case because a PRODUCT is supplied by SUPPLIER . |
| 3 | So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window . |
| 4 | Apart from this , children are out by going to the wrong side when a number is called out , if they unfreeze without being told or if they are the last one to do one of the organizer 's commands . |
| 5 | 10 In determining for the purposes of this Act whether a house is unfit for human habitation , regard shall be had to its condition in respect of the following matters — repair , stability , freedom from damp , internal arrangement , natural lighting , ventilation , water supply , drainage and sanitary conveniences , facilities for preparation and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water ; and the house shall be regarded as unfit for human habitation if , and only if , it is so far defective in one or more of those matters that it is not reasonably suitable for occupation in that condition . |
| 6 | The Japanese are confident they can muster the necessary 25 per cent minority to block the French proposal if a vote is called . |
| 7 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 8 | Three days later , Mr Koc said he was taken from his room at the hospital to another room where a man was lying in bed watched by his wife and six-month-old baby . |
| 9 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 10 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 11 | In May 1990 he suffered a broken leg when a car was allegedly driven into him near his home in Provanmill where he lived with his wife Rita , son Billy , 25 , and Arthur jun 's daughter Amanda , 13 , in converted council houses which have been nicknamed locally ‘ Southfork ’ . |
| 12 | Some of these contain nicotine while others aim to reduce the cravings or to produce an unpleasant taste when a cigarette is smoked . |
| 13 | Usually we do not have this information when a file is set up . |
| 14 | George was a moderate smoker and his favourite meal before a race was a glass of beer and a hunk of bread and cheese . |
| 15 | But Spurs lasted longer , the sparkling Nayim being denied another goal after a colleague was spotted offside while he completed an intricate run . |
| 16 | Another pause while a note was made . |
| 17 | It is time for the magazine to go — what company can justify wasting a reputed £250,000 on a glossy front while a recession is going on ? |
| 18 | A typical instance where a solicitor is needed is renewing the lease at the end of the tenancy . |
| 19 | We can now apply this condition to equation ( 25 ) and obtain the following condition if a reaction is to occur spontaneously : In both of the cases above , one of the products and one of the reactants are elements . |
| 20 | ‘ The assets of Bell Resources are in serious jeopardy if a receiver is not appointed in the very near future , ’ said Adelaide Steamship 's lawyer , George Palmer . |
| 21 | The child obviously has mild epilepsy , and should it recur she must be exposed fortnightly to intense cold in a bath for an hour , then put in a warm bed until a fever is induced . |
| 22 | For example , the attitude-holder , filling out an opinion survey individually , is , according to this definition , engaged in an explicit controversy if a stance is indicated on an issue of public debate . |
| 23 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |
| 24 | It 's no easy task when a baby 's almost died on her however many times . |
| 25 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 26 | A motorist and his family had a lucky escape after a brick was dropped on their car from an overhead bridge . |
| 27 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 28 | This has not prevented their use in Europe and North America , where in any case the risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups , such as medical personnel ; but it rules out widespread use where a vaccine is most needed , in the Third World . |
| 29 | An indirect tax could be justified in terms of pure allocative efficiency if a product were produced under conditions of severe imperfect competition — a monopoly , for example . |
| 30 | Their lives take a startling turn when a friend is murdered in the local park . |