Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going back further than this are yearly highlights from the years 1980 to 1988 , and major issues of the decade from the ‘ 20 's right through to the ‘ 70's . |
| 2 | Of those people who have lost their jobs , more than 250,000 are this year in well worth while and excellent training schemes . |
| 3 | Although these are legitimate grounds for unease , solutions are far from straightforward because of the diversity of quangos . |
| 4 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 5 | Edward had gained only the Agenais in 1279 and souther Sain-tongue in 1286 , although these were valuable additions to his lands , partly because of the number of new settlements or bastides previously founded in the Agenais by Alphonse de Poitiers , count of toulouse , between 1259 and his death without heirs in 1271 . |
| 6 | Yeah cos that 's next door but one to me so , yeah . |
| 7 | Slightly altered configuration , but er tracks put in there , erm and er to house quite a lot of wagons and to er allow trains to er to just be held there until they could move up to erm cos that 's single track beyond there . |
| 8 | Cos that 's another way of telling |
| 9 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 10 | Three packs of three , I was just wondering if that 's good value for |
| 11 | If this is another exhibition of the intercapillary distance in er progno in defining the prognosis |
| 12 | ‘ If this is some kind of guessing game you 'll have to count me out . |
| 13 | If this is any use to you you are very welcome to it , as I have another . |
| 14 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |
| 15 | In an aside to Charity , Charles asked if this was all part of the conspiracy . |
| 16 | ‘ Philippe would hate that , ’ said Iris , as if this was sufficient reason for leaving Hassan with his suicide theory for the time being . |
| 17 | ‘ Please , do n't apologise , ’ she murmured , wondering if this was another phase of the game , yet sensing that it was not . |
| 18 | Ladies and Gentlemen Kevin says would you please move cos these are all teams for this afternoon . |
| 19 | Well I wo n't be paying for another lot of lessons for you at the drama class David because that 's two weeks in a row you 've been saying you 've not gon na go . |
| 20 | Actually that 's not a completely fair statement because 1990–91 were start-up years for us and we invested heavily . |
| 21 | Justice is concerned with the protection of private property and the enforcement of contracts because these are essential equipment for playing the game . |
| 22 | Dispute settlement and welfare arise because these are important issues in the anthropological literature on stateless societies ; questions about money and violence arise in the study of any polity . |
| 23 | Use of idiom was almost totally lacking in the samples of signing collected , partly because these were fixed tasks of description of pictures rather than conversational ( though even in conversations which we recorded with interpreters the signing was dominated by English ) , and partly because there is a feeling that BSL in its deaf form is somehow inappropriate for the formality of a test situation . |
| 24 | This is because both are positive functions of the rate of arrival of information during the time period . |
| 25 | It is important to make the distinction between what Chorley ( 1978 ) identified as functional and realistic approaches , because both were integral parts of the movement towards a greater focus upon processes . |
| 26 | While that is good news for farmers , who are undoubtedly being given an opportunity to earn more money than the multiples would ever be happy to pass back — it does mean that consumers will have to get used to paying a little more . |
| 27 | While this is good news for millions of borrowers and mortgage holders , it is not such a rosy picture for those people who have come to expect a healthy return from their savings accounts . |
| 28 | Second , if the ‘ historicist ’ argument is to hold good , then at least some of the female characters in such texts should be seen in non-traditional roles since this is one period in history when women were called upon to enter previously ‘ male ’ domains . |
| 29 | Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole . |
| 30 | Since this is exceptional fate for most of them , we are never likely to know from fossil evidence anything approaching the complete range of land creatures that has existed in the past . |