Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some things even the man voted the sexiest person in the world by Just Seventeen magazine would n't do . |
| 2 | Are these dreams really triggered by outside stimuli , or are these reports only the outcome of rather memorable coincidence ? |
| 3 | A petition organized by the Jewish people 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism collected 77,000 signatures in two days ; it was felt that if there had been more time over a quarter of a million would have signed against Mosley 's proposed demonstration . |
| 4 | There also needs to be collective approach so every union worker in this section rejects the present derisory offer and builds on a campaign run by the Fire Brigade Union . |
| 5 | However , there will be statutory rights once the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill becomes law — it amends Reg 2(1) of the Regulations to expressly cover non-commercial ventures . |
| 6 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 7 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 8 | Before they were half way there the Orcs and Goblins regrouped . |
| 9 | In other words , were some factors e.g. the rise of Labour , more or less important than others , e.g. the First World War ? |
| 10 | Another old miner , a beautiful , gracious man with a graceful mind , but breathless with pneumoconiosis , showed me a list of disastrous explosions in the Yorkshire collieries in the thirties and early forties — there were major explosions nearly every year . |
| 11 | More than this , there were well-known precedents abroad-in the cities of Lombardy and in France , for example — and there existed already such a restriction in some English boroughs . |
| 12 | There are two acts here the creation of a community , a body politic , by the social contract and then that community establishes a government as a separate act and I shall emphasise the significance of that shortly . |
| 13 | And now is that view also an expression of local preference or local support in terms of the public at large in Selby district ? |
| 14 | Is used oil therefore a waste ? |
| 15 | that 's six miles all the way down |
| 16 | Though it is 11 years ago the memory of it still haunts me . |
| 17 | They join all the social events , and when room is available pay only the shore holiday rate . |
| 18 | That is one reason even a smoothly-run and uneventful Libyan poll took some time to complete . |
| 19 | ‘ There is one signal scarcely a mile behind us and there are three more towards the south . |
| 20 | If there is spare capacity then a rise in output Y t can be met from the existing capital stock , with no need for new investment . |
| 21 | The headline in the London Standard read ‘ The professor what do n't know nothing ’ , and the subheading expressed the exact opposite of the truth : ‘ Is correct English just a dialect or could it possibly be a useful tool for a youngster in search of a job ? |
| 22 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 23 | Yes , that one 's two tablets twice a day and that 's for the water test . |
| 24 | Where cover is Third Party only the Policy will be entirely suspended and on renewal a refund of 80% of the pro rata premium will be allowed . |
| 25 | Later that month ( most of his letters are undated bearing just the day of the week , sometimes not even that ; luckily Hanns kept them in order and made a note of the month and year ) : ‘ The Scarlet Woman is a joy ! |
| 26 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 27 | It was 61 years ago the New Zealand , under the leadership of Tom Lowry , first played Tests in England . |