Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
2 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
3 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
4 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
5 | Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation . |
6 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
7 | A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token-reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token-reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) . |
8 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
9 | The inverted repeats of IS1151 are homologous to the corresponding sequences of the IS231 and IS4 insertion elements but diverge from those of IS186 and of IS421 . |
10 | A recent study by INSERM , the national institute of health and medical research , revealed that French specialists are under-represented on the editorial boards of medical reviews in relation to the strength of French biomedical research . |
11 | Finally , in the Western Hemisphere region where , among developing regions , infant mortality is lowest , the pattern resembles that observed lately in low infant mortality , developed countries , i.e. , the chances of surviving infancy are greatest for the first births and the relationship tends to be linear . |
12 | The development of economy-wide agreements for both Scandinavia and the Netherlands reflects , however , not only those influences which are specific to the various countries themselves but also more general factors . |
13 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
14 | These are picture-based at the earlier levels , and text-based at the higher levels . |
15 | If the hon. Gentleman will think back to days gone by , he will remember that such questions have been perennial in the few weeks before a general election . |
16 | These picture faults are due to the technical compromises which are built into video and television systems . |
17 | to get rid of the artificial distinctions which the historical development of the law had drawn between land and movable property — leaving only those distinctions which are due to the natural qualities of these two forms of property ; |
18 | May 1995 Elections are due for the new authorities |
19 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
20 | Beta releases of AIX and OS/2 Mach microkernels are due in a few months and in the second half of the year respectively . |
21 | At one end there was a platform with a piano on it , so Fosdyke might , for all she l–new , have been right about the musical comedies . |
22 | We are grateful to the concerned Dogs Today reader who informed us of the lobbying activities of this organisation . |
23 | One I recognized , the local Baronessa , whose family has always been friendly with the occupying forces . |
24 | These slightly altered protein molecules are mass-produced by the protein-making machines inside the developing brain cells . |
25 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
26 | This may have been due to the long delays in the submission and execution of spot trades caused by the overloading of the NYSE order routing system . |
27 | The tendency to see childhood socialisation as the most important gender-constructing process has always been strong in the social sciences , but it has also been criticised on theoretical and political grounds . |
28 | The Council is of the opinion that the proposals in the main set forth in the Department 's document … are inimical to the best interests of advanced art education . |
29 | Recovery from meningitis has been complete with no neurobiological sequelae . |
30 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |