Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for a particular segment of the rich it was less wealth per se which was of importance , than wealth displayed as a conspicuous distance from the world of practical necessity . |
| 2 | In the 1890s there was periodic tinkering with judicial policy . |
| 3 | Despite their different interpretations of the song — the new version is a smoochy ballad , while the old one was pure country — Dolly was so impressed with Whitney 's version that she plans to use it in her stage show . |
| 4 | The principal one was that conversion and growth were particularly directed at the clerical-religious élite , where the annual retreat system formed the annual or biennial centre of the individual spiritual life . |
| 5 | Oh oh well , yes , well of course er I kn I know about take two more exams and er I know the second one was mental arithmetic . |
| 6 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 7 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 8 | But in both Liverpool and Birmingham in the 1870s there was suburban railway development . |
| 9 | From the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s it was increasing inequality which was to dominate the changing geography of manufacturing , and indeed of employment more generally . |
| 10 | On the Left there was some dismay that the reforms were not more dramatic , and especially that wealth was not redistributed more equally . |
| 11 | The primary one is sound texture . |
| 12 | When the Marxist Left and the radical Right emerged in the 1970s there was one point on which they were agreed : that many of the seeds of decline were planted in the immediate post-war years . |
| 13 | To obtain true security in Europe , NATO still wanted to see a reduction of Russia 's conventional strength , which remained overwhelming , and as in the 1970s there was some concern that Moscow and Washington could together decide the fate of Europe without European representation . |
| 14 | Between 1945 and 1983 , all children ascertained as ‘ handicapped ’ were classified into ten statutory categories of handicap.7 By the 1970s there was widespread dissatisfaction with this system as a means to guide the form of education that should be provided for categorised children . |
| 15 | The major one is that image is fixed at the resolution of the device that created it ; a picture drawn on a CGA screen stays at that resolution regardless . |
| 16 | So , on the seventh floor the floor tiles are next and the next job they 're doing is on the eighth which is more floor tiling . |
| 17 | In the 1920s there were fierce street battles in North London between Spurs and Arsenal fans . |
| 18 | During the 1960's there was slow growth with more rapid growth during the early 1970's . |
| 19 | Before you go out there are some important safety considerations we should talk about and the first one is personal preparation . |
| 20 | In the first there is natural decrease and out-migration : |
| 21 | Which is the Dutch which is that half . |
| 22 | In addition to the foregoing there are numerous dialect dictionaries , each devoted to the colloquial ( or traditional ) speech of a particular region . |
| 23 | The side effects of penicillin , the commonest one is loose motion . |
| 24 | Ventilation : because the fly sits on top of the inner there 's little space for air to circulate in this area . |
| 25 | But that is the same it 's same thing though . |
| 26 | Once this was in the open there was less reason to maintain such extreme secrecy about the fusion research programmes and some relaxation occurred . |
| 27 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 28 | From the mid-'60s to the mid-'70s there was some tendency towards increasing regional equality in terms of unemployment numbers ; since the mid-'70s this process has been reversed . |
| 29 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 30 | The other one 's ten foot two bedroom ten . |