Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was decided that an able career diplomat of wide experience , John J. Muccio , should be the representative and subsequently ambassador .
2 What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence .
3 In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow .
4 They 've already written to the Secretary of State and said dear Secretary of State we 're going to send this to you because it is a departure but please Secretary of State do not call it in do not exercise your powers .
5 For instance , a good reason for observing a law whose content you find objectionable is that it is a law and therefore part of a system of mandatory rules which has value as a system because of its overall results , results which are dependent on subjects observing laws which they find objectionable .
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