Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 2 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
| 3 | The apartments themselves are spacious with a separate bedroom , lounge with sofa-bed , a fully equipped kitchenette as well as a shower , bath , wc and balcony . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Destructiveness and self-doubt are preferable to the enfeebled body politic and the parasitic Church . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Decisions still emerge which are redolent of the pre-1964 era , such as those which manipulate the distinction between rights and legitimate expectations . |
| 9 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 10 | In driveages the routine samples taken by the pit are lower in every single case than the samples taken and checked by independent laboratories used by British coal . |
| 11 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 12 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 13 | References to experts are private in the same way that arbitrations are . |
| 14 | He had been an unsuccessful amateur jockey some fifteen years ago and had then been assistant to a leading jump trainer in Lambourn . |
| 15 | Psychology ( another recent coinage , this time by John Stuart Mill ) was still linked with philosophy — A. Bain 's Mental and Moral Science ( 1868 ) still combined it with ethics — but was increasingly given an experimental orientation with W. Wundt ( 1832–1920 ) , who had been assistant to the great Helmholtz . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation . |
| 18 | In view of the diversity of the environment , the variations in cultural , social and political organisation as well as rapid population growth , there is an overwhelming need for development and management plans that are practicable at a local level , are politically acceptable to all Himalayan nations and are equally beneficial to those extra-Himalayan regions that are affected by intra-Himalayan policies . |
| 19 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 20 | To date , the fuselage , rudder and rear wing are complete with the front wing well underway . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | ( Actually , the Brits are right about the European space effort , but that is not the point . ) |
| 23 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 25 | Mr Clifford , for anyone who has been asleep through the entire summer , is to jilted mistresses what Zimmer frames are to decrepit old ones . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 28 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 29 | For example , nearly all locations on the south coast of England are hopeless in a northerly wind . |
| 30 | 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 . |