Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the studies of relationships between R&D and production in recent years have been of a qualitative and often anecdotal nature . |
| 2 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 3 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 4 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 5 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 6 | I know people say well oh it 's , of course it 's changed ownership , well things change ownership and it can be for the better as well for the worst ca n't it ? |
| 7 | of river water in the United Kingdom is judged to be of a good or very high standard is something of which I am enormously proud . |
| 8 | In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels . |
| 9 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 10 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |
| 11 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 12 | The green figure was equally likely to be on the left or right , and 50% of the probes matched in both cases . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that indigenous peoples are the majority of the population in some countries , they tend to be among the poorest and politically weakest sectors of society . |
| 14 | The first treatment lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours and costs £25 to £30 ; the follow-up sessions will be around an hour-an-a-half and slightly less expensive . |
| 15 | Goblin wolf riders are among the fastest and most mobile of all troops . |
| 16 | The tragedy was that thirty years ago these were amongst the brightest and most influential members of this country 's infrastructure : lawyers , biochemists , scientists and diplomats . |
| 17 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 18 | I mean these local elections only took place what , erm four weeks after the general election , the Conservatives were on a high and conversely therefore you could say that what ? |
| 19 | Employees and their families were among the 100 or so people who joined a convoy of 25 four-wheel drive vehicles in order to hit the heights . |
| 20 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 21 | It further assumes that no clothing is purchased which is not absolutely necessary for health and assumes too that it is of the plainest and most economical description . ’ |
| 22 | The truth with which faith deals is of the highest and most ultimate kind , and faith itself is a ‘ leap ’ and a ‘ passion ’ , a leap into the truth that can only be grasped on the road of authentic commitment . |
| 23 | Unless you take the precaution described below , the only way to escape from this is with a soft or hard reset . |
| 24 | Certainly discretion is exercised by human beings , and those human beings are subject to all the , the frailties of humanity , and in many situations the policeman is in a tense but essentially human situation , where he has to make snap decisions on the spot . |
| 25 | This drawing is among the 700 or so exhibits , many never seen before in the West , in the exhibition ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ , at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 10 May . |
| 26 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 27 | The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations . |
| 28 | The higher shelves held plastic containers of the sort a do-it-yourself handiman would keep screws and nails in so the effect was of a dozen or so pigeonholes . |
| 29 | The mass effect was of a light but most brilliant ultramarine . |
| 30 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |