Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of an introduction for a company are lower costs and the benefit of having the market price of the shares before raising further capital . |
| 2 | Above are Corinthian pilasters and a gold and white coffered ceiling , erected in the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | Often , timbers dated by radio-carbon are carbonised oak and a date obtained relates to the age of the rings of the surviving tree and not the felling date . |
| 4 | Certainly there are broad similarities and a degree of categorisation is possible but with detailed analysis there are always differences . |
| 5 | Whereas in the 1970s , modularity was seen variously as a means of overcoming artificial subject boundaries , promoting student choice and clarifying course objectives , the main rationales now are administrative rationalization and the promotion of credit transfer between courses , institutions , modes of study , and between the educational system and ‘ corporate classrooms ’ , to use Eurich 's ( 1985 ) phrase , as exemplified by the CNAA Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme . |
| 6 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 7 | Oswald had n't been nearer Tibet than the end of Folkestone pier ! |
| 8 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 9 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 10 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 11 | There are clear signs that the process is already well advanced . |
| 12 | Now , there are clear indications that the group 's relationship with Ryder has deteriorated and insiders claim the singer feels the rest of the band have ‘ ego problems ’ . |
| 13 | The findings , contained in an exclusive ICM Research poll for The Scotsman , are further evidence that the country 's current moral panic is not a media invention but a widespread social concern . |
| 14 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 15 | There had been few expectations that the Chancellor would announce a significant change of course , but disappointment that Mr Lawson said nothing new on monetary policy sent sterling 0.50 pfennigs lower to close at DM2.9562 . |
| 16 | These are exciting times and every day there seems to be something new and innovative happening . |
| 17 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 18 | I am told that there have been further incidents since the system reopened but so far nobody has come along with any details . |
| 19 | There are some signs that the market is itself seeking to bridge this gap between ownership and control . |
| 20 | ‘ Beyond the walls are some vineyards but the weather blights them . |
| 21 | There are some indications that the interior of Mercury is hot , and other indications that the outer regions have cooled rapidly . |
| 22 | There are some indications that the population of Crete was rising significantly around 1550–1500 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) , with new settlements appearing in previously unpopulated areas such as the Zou valley to the south of Sitia and the south coast between Arvi and Myrtos , where at least five new settlements were founded in Late Minoan I. Meanwhile , the old established centres had expanded greatly . |
| 23 | It is certainly used , however , and there are some indications that the acquisition of reading skills is associated with the appreciation of GPCs . |
| 24 | Yes there have been some problems and the City Council |
| 25 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 26 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
| 27 | Also on board are another ex-gunman and an army deserter and , when the trawler breaks down , a plan is forged to rob a bank . |
| 28 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 29 | These expectations are fulfilled when we find that the chief things for which Moore claims great intrinsic value are personal friendship and the appreciation of beautiful objects . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |