Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | ‘ Would like to develop training areas which would help offset the problems of lack of mobility of staff … regretfully none of our posts are supernumerary and hence the problems of removing staff from their work to attend training is a real difficulty ’ … |
| 3 | Most changes are minimal and so a further proof is not necessary . |
| 4 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 5 | Investors should be aware that these securities are irredeemable and therefore the real return in future years is vulnerable if the UK inflation rate rises again . |
| 6 | Opposite Passengers crowd onto a train in India where the steam trains are legendary and still the dream of travellers . |
| 7 | Some of these Lutheran priests also claim that women 's bodies are impure and so the presence of a woman at the altar would pollute the sacred rites . |
| 8 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 9 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 10 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 11 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 12 | International harmonization of competition policies is essential and probably a supranational competition authority as well . |
| 13 | Dissection classes with small groups of students are excellent since even the squeamish can take part as onlookers , whilst a fellow student performs the dissection . |
| 14 | The reasons why the lower socio-economic groups make less use of the education and health services are complex and only a brief comment can be presented here . |
| 15 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 16 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 17 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 18 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 19 | RTH cards are different and yet the populations serviced overlap and use whatever service is geographically nearer . |
| 20 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 21 | In Barbados ( and other places such as Jamaica and Antigua ) , the wickets are fast and so the bowlers have traditionally bowled fast , while the batsmen have looked to attack at every opportunity , to hit the ball as hard and as gleefully as possible . |
| 22 | Whether shares , commodities or vouchers are used , with any bonus scheme designed to avoid National Insurance contributions , it is essential that the payment to the employees is discretionary and not a contractual obligation . |
| 23 | The understanding of ‘ objective ’ categories is Hegelian and not the same as positivist or materialist references to ‘ objective ’ . |