Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 2 | He was apparently speaking for George Bush , who had been upset both by the tales of torture in an Amnesty report and by the inadequacy of the Kuwaiti government changes . |
| 3 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 4 | Some of the attractions are due simply to the landforms and some due to the features made by people . |
| 5 | Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 6 | a ) Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 7 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 8 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 9 | Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry . |
| 10 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 11 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 12 | The delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air . |
| 13 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 14 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 15 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 16 | ‘ This is attractive for when the variable premium goes many farmers will look at early lamb production , which has not been profitable enough in the past when the cost of spongeing was included . |
| 17 | If , however , the company or the chargee fails to do so the consequences are grave indeed for the chargee ; in effect , he loses his security . |
| 18 | This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy . |
| 19 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 20 | The investigators are interested both in the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ( ‘ spillover effects ' and in the ‘ strategic ’ policy responses which such spillovers may induce . ) |
| 21 | Sankoff and Laberge are interested principally in the alternation between on on the one hand , and tu/vous on the other in their function as indefinite personal pronouns ( cf. 7.4.3 ) . |
| 22 | Series producer Madeline Wilstshire explains : ‘ We have more drama in this series but the reporters are not actors , they 're just ordinary teenagers who are interested enough in a subject to want to make a television programme about it . ’ |
| 23 | The very fact that you are interested enough in the possibility to be reading this book makes it so . |
| 24 | Here the notion of speaker-meaning is best explicated , once again , by reference to Grice 's concept of meaning-nn , for we are interested only in the inferences overtly and intentionally conveyed . |
| 25 | We are interested now in the question of moral responsibility . |
| 26 | The conclusion to be drawn from these analyses is that whereas in some States , mainly in the northeastern United States , governments are generous both in the number of welfare recipients and in the amount of support allocated , those in others , mainly in the South , are much less generous . |
| 27 | It is now widely accepted that the Chairmanship of the Bar is virtually a full time job , and the profession has been fortunate indeed in the people who have been prepared to take on that responsibility and make that commitment . |
| 28 | I do n't think I 'd have been warm enough in a shellsuit . |
| 29 | The decline in hospital orders and the rise of prison sentences are traceable formally to the practice of modern psychiatrists of recommending fewer hospital orders , and in reality to the more restrictive policy on admission to special hospitals being pursued by the DHSS , and also to the higher proportion of defendants who are declared to have ‘ recovered ’ by the time of the trial . |
| 30 | Some puppets are simple enough for the children to improvise for themselves once the teacher has introduced the idea . |