Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 2 | Tess had been calm since the baptism and she remained calm . |
| 3 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 4 | We are fortunate that the leadership and whole-hearted support of our Minister and Kirk Session enable us to ‘ use our powers for those who are powerless ’ . |
| 5 | Such contracts are appropriate because the timing and level of the peak can be determined with a high degree of certainty . |
| 6 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 7 | Bless all who are married and every parent and child . |
| 8 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 9 | I am sure that the President and his advisors and most of the scientists who went to work on this project had heavy hearts … |
| 10 | The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT . |
| 11 | I accept that few boat owners find the cost of repair or maintenance work cheap , but costs of running these businesses are enormous and the plant and equipment needed expensive to buy and maintain . |
| 12 | We would be grateful if the disk and the pages could be returned to the Library . |
| 13 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 14 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |
| 15 | It should be clear that the correctness and the effect of some expressions can not only be judged within the sentence , but must be judged in connection with other sentences in the discourse as well . |
| 16 | As one teacher said , ‘ I am still to be convinced whether the energy and time required to do effective evaluation would balance the increased efficiency in teaching which might follow . ’ |
| 17 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure that the Prince and Princess of Wales will remain friends . ’ |
| 19 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 20 | It is n't quite that cut and dried , but if you are signed to a small company with any degree of commitment , you can be sure that the company and their staff are in their weekly meetings pushing to get results from your music . |
| 21 | If we want the situation to be as realistic as possible , we have to accept that we can not control all the variables , and can therefore never be sure that the cause and effect relationships we identify are , in fact , correct . |
| 22 | This is the only way out , so the adventurers must head for it , even though they ca n't be sure that the haze and mist they see beyond the archway offers any real hope of release . |
| 23 | I 'm stiff as a board and want to stretch my legs . ’ |
| 24 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 25 | From this brief account , it will be apparent that the retina and primary visual cortex are performing computations on the visual input . |
| 26 | So have a winter check now and make sure your home will be weathertight when the wind and rain start in earnest . |
| 27 | The cause of Northern Ireland must be greater than the individual and it would mean a very unfavourable hearing for many government speakers which would give the wrong impression . |
| 28 | You will be aware that the IoT and the Faculty have jointly promoted the ‘ Pay and File Roadshow ’ . |
| 29 | We need to be satisfied that the cost and delays that would be involved in such a course are justified both to resolve this matter and to provide the assurance that all the issues have been fully examined . |
| 30 | SIR — We are concerned about one of the proposals in the Law Commission 's consultation paper on mentally incapacitated adults and decision-making ( May 1 , p 1143 ) — namely , ‘ … consent or refusal to treatment may be valid if the treatment and consequences are broadly understood when expressed in simple terms ’ . |