Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These excellent jogsuits are outstanding value for money at a greatly reduced price . |
| 2 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 3 | Their tanks seem to be part of the framework of a ship ; there are meteorite impact scars on some of the surfaces . |
| 4 | prohibiting the connection of garden hosepipes to taps unless there are back-siphonage protection devices installed at the taps ( see Chapter 10 ) |
| 5 | The loudspeakers are two-way design using 25mm titanium dome tweeters with 160mm graphite-reinforced polypropylene bass/midrange units . |
| 6 | Clacton ( Jim Dove , Matthew Lincoln , Gary Ridgeon , Daniel Burrell , Emma Cartwright ) are Junior Division Three winners . |
| 7 | Your objectives are lower trajectory , less backspin and , in dry conditions , to run the ball onto the putting surface . |
| 8 | They are lower cut , not exactly ‘ high ’ tops , but offer thick padding at the ankle and support at the same time . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I know it 's a dodgy topic , ’ some one remarks in Amis 's Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , ‘ but you are lower class , are n't you , darling ? ’ ; to which the admirably candid reply is : |
| 10 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 11 | Kings Quest VI requires a 80286 processor or better ( a 16Mhz 386 is preferred ) , graphics supported are 256 colour VGA , 16 colour EGA and Tandy VGA ( all with one set of disks ) . |
| 12 | There are forty-seven county councils in England and Wales , and these are responsible for the provision of education , personal social services , roads and planning . |
| 13 | The only remedies which can be sought in private actions are private law remedies , that is declarations , injunctions , and damages . |
| 14 | Unlike the declaration and the injunction , which are private law remedies ( i.e. remedies for the redress of private law wrongs ) which have been extended to redress public law illegality , damages is a purely private law remedy . |
| 15 | We can see , then , that Weber agrees with Marx that the crucial economic features of capitalism are private ownership of the means of production , and markets for goods and labour . |
| 16 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 17 | The answer to the first , or ‘ why ’ , question begins with a recognition that banks are private sector , profit-making organisations with obligations to shareholders to increase profits over time . |
| 18 | There are private inquiry agents who offer the service of getting hold of people 's ex-directory telephone numbers . |
| 19 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 20 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 21 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 22 | The Board appointed Mr. G. Chaplin and Miss Anne Reid , who had been assistant master and matron respectively at the Hackney Union , but it was conditional on their being married ( to one another ) by July . |
| 23 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 24 | He 's been Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside and was the Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire before coming to Gloucestershire in ninteen eighty seven . |
| 25 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
| 26 | The appointment went , however , to William Clark , a married man aged 32 , who had been assistant overseer and vestry clerk at Eaton Socon . |
| 27 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 28 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 29 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 30 | Ride is a reasonable compromise considering its dual role ; supple and smooth when surfaces allow but it rolls majestically cornering fast — no wonder there are ample grab handles . |