Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to make the procedure ‘ fair ’ , you are imagined to : know little except the most general facts about human society ; be ignorant of your own eventual position and role in society ; be unaware of your own endowments ; be ignorant of where your own best interests will in fact lie , and be ignorant also of the state of development of the society in which you will find yourself . |
| 2 | I began to be conscious even of the kidney shape . |
| 3 | Systems using heat detectors are inappropriate for high-bay warehouses bearing in mind that their response will be little ahead of the sprinkler system , which itself will provide an alarm signal both locally and to the Fire Brigade . |
| 4 | Conversely , if the right hemisphere can not perform the task at all but has to send the probe stimulus to the left hemisphere for a comparison with memory items then the relative disadvantage in reaction time for the right hemisphere should be constant regardless of the size of the memory set . |
| 5 | If you are inclined to take Frownies seriously , and wish to be well ahead of the game , you need look no farther than Clare Maxwell-Hudson 's office in north London , where the notion that anti-frown plasters are a new idea from the USA met with shrieks of incredulity . |
| 6 | Descartes refused to be sure even of the reality of the external universe until he had proved a priori to his own satisfaction that he was not dreaming it . |