Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are spacious public rooms opening onto terraces and a small garden , a popular bar , pizzeria , á la carte restaurant , lounges , TV room and two lifts . |
| 2 | There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre . |
| 3 | Yes , we are fortunate ; we have uncovered parking , and there are ample other parking facilities nearby . |
| 4 | Not a new situation , for there are ample historical parallels . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes they have been over- social , or captain of school — or Dr Faustus in the school play . |
| 6 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
| 7 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 8 | Yet , Hurd 's suggestions implicitly assume that both states are stable political entities — which they are not . |
| 9 | There are drowsy old houses , sleepy alleys and squares , intimate cafes , and the air of medieval Switzerland envelopes you . |
| 10 | It is important to note that most of the authorities which have experienced the more punitive forms of grant limitation and all but one of the authorities which have experienced rate capping have been Labour controlled . |
| 11 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 12 | ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’ |
| 13 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 14 | Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants . |
| 15 | The police know that ’ hotting ’ , ram-raiding , and related offences are committed by a comparatively small number of people , many of whom are persistent young criminals . |
| 16 | The satellites revealed a rather remarkable feature in the Antarctic sea ice in that there are persistent open water areas even in the middle of winter when the area should be frozen over , the atmosphere is cold enough to freeze the ocean and yet , in these areas , the ice does not form . |
| 17 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 18 | It is no surprise that hon. Members are inundated with complaints because the problem with housing policy in Britain is that , although it is made by the Government , it is delivered by the local authorities , far too many of which are Labour controlled . |
| 19 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 20 | It is clear that nearly all of the 10 worst councils in terms of rent collection and houses left empty are Labour controlled . |
| 21 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 22 | Is not the most significant point about that list the fact that all the authorities listed are Labour controlled ? |
| 23 | There is a good example in Goldmann ( 1964 ) , and there are classic pioneering studies in Gramsci ( translated 1971 ) and Benjamin ( translated 1973 ) . |
| 24 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 25 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |
| 26 | Most of our women in the House are frightful old bats . |
| 27 | Very good and kind and small children are cruel noisy and demanding , and unless |
| 28 | In January 1946 bread rationing had recently been re- introduced , the franc had just been devalued , inflation was galloping , and Indochina was in crisis . |
| 29 | Good examples are grass-pollen producing hay fever , some constituents of perfume or make-up producing contact dermatitis , and sensitivity to gluten — a protein found in wheat — producing coeliac disease . |
| 30 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |