Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 3 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 4 | Optimism is highest among members of the Royal Scots — the world 's oldest infantry regiment , which received the lion 's share of medals for bravery in the Gulf War — and the King 's Own Scottish Borderers , which are due to become one regiment in 1994 . |
| 5 | Over 16 million different colours are possible using eight-bit representation for the three additive primary colours since any value in the range 0–255 inclusive can be selected for any of the three memory banks . |
| 6 | Very high storage rates are possible using this type of technology . |
| 7 | Tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy the magic of sculpture , and theatres like Show of Hands encourage those who are deaf to enjoy live theatre like everyone else . |
| 8 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 9 | An RAF base which had been due to close next year as part of the Government 's defence cuts is stay open and be taken over by the army . |
| 10 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 11 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 12 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 13 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 14 | Indeed , it could be argued that it would not have been possible to allow greater competition without changes in regulation to counteract the increased levels of risk that comes with more intense competition . |
| 15 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection . |
| 17 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 18 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 19 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 20 | Just as it has been possible to insert beneficial genes into crop plants , there is scope for eliminating , replacing or masking certain genes which have a deleterious effect on crop production . |
| 21 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 22 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 23 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 24 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 25 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 26 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 27 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |
| 28 | They both have large planning departments and are prepared to take young people with no previous experience and train them . |
| 29 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 30 | When other Community Governments are prepared to extend those rights to their people , is not it completely wrong for the British Government to refuse to do the same for the British people ? |