Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other possible explanations are that badgers simply like large setts because they are better ventilated , and that subordinate females benefit from being able to breed in remote outlying chambers , well out of the way of dominant breeding females . |
| 2 | The long-term aim is to develop a network of groups and individuals who are prepared to speak out for democratic rights . |
| 3 | Two recent surveys clearly show that many shoppers are willing to pay more for organic food . |
| 4 | Two oligonucleotides ( which are easy to make artificially on automatic machines or can be purchased from several suppliers ) are added to the tube . |
| 5 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 6 | But this first impression is grossly misleading — as you 'd realise if you heard Diversion 's rather wonderful EP , ‘ BZ ’ — four short , sharp pop songs which roll around experimentally in a wide field of influences and still come up smelling of roses , mainly because they 're all squashed together into spunky two and a half minute blasts . |
| 7 | We 're happiest driving around in beat-up old cars . ’ |
| 8 | A survey has revealed nine out of ten properties in the area are unfit to live in by modern standards . |
| 9 | Unlike the national services , which are likely to go out to competitive tender , these local and community services are expected to be awarded on the basis of their planned services and financial viability . |
| 10 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 11 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 12 | In Britain we are likely to come up against similar , if not identical , perverse incentives as the NHS reforms alter the way in which services are funded . |
| 13 | Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail , designed , presumably , to show just how very ‘ in ’ is Lady Colin Campbell . |
| 14 | On these three topics the various works are all agreed apart from minor variations . |
| 15 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 16 | There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles . |
| 17 | Clearly they are able to switch mentally between auditory and visual worlds . |
| 18 | The clever are not held back by their slower classmates , for the bright child and the less able , working with children of their own level , are able to compete intellectually on equal terms . |
| 19 | In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record . |
| 20 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 21 | Very anxious to promote the Wales in Europe scheme because it 's been very important to us , including the links that er we have been able to build up with other regions of Europe in Catalonia , , Lombardy and Battenberkaburg above all er which our our sort of strong erm er neighbours which can teach us a lot about industry and these are the areas that we will want to link up with by having this extra seat in the European parliament , er and obviously I mean there are sorts of areas where we have some sympathy with the occasional point that is made by the anti-Europe speakers on the other side . |
| 22 | In the past , fisheries have been able to start up without adequate information about either the target stock or its role in ocean ecology . |
| 23 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Government are busy opting out of industrial policy . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the Government are busy opting out of industrial policy . |
| 26 | In order to make a success of your business career you need to be prepared to work hard at oral skills . |
| 27 | ‘ There will obviously be some slimming down in certain areas , which is regrettable but necessary . ’ |
| 28 | And at training Paul Gascoigne upstaged that prank after being warned there could be some standing around in chilly weather . |
| 29 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 30 | Moreover , the coalition government so formed will not have to ( or even be able to ) face the electorate at the next election since the parties to the coalition will be free to fight again as independent entities . |