Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . Theory emerges as and when texts or issues are theorized , usually by academics who are dissatisfied with the status quo . |
| 2 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 3 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + /H + exchange mechanism . |
| 4 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport system . |
| 5 | The countries which qualify for assistance are those with a per capita GNP of less than US $ 791 ( valued at 1983 dollars ) . |
| 6 | This would be preferable to the ad hoc provisions available under Section 11 of the Competition Act 1980 , whereby the Secretary of State for Trade can direct the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to investigate efficiency , costs , the level of quality of the service provided and possible misuse of monopoly power within nationalized industries . |
| 7 | As the activation mechanism by CRP-cAMP appears to be different at the lac P1 and gal P1 promoters , we have decided to test the binding of the reconstituted polymerases to lac and gal up promoter variants in the presence and in the absence of the CRP-cAMP complex . |
| 8 | Does n't he seem to be content with the status quo ? |
| 9 | He has a strong responsibility not to be content with the status quo , but to exert himself to try to find an answer , community to community , to settle the dispute . |
| 10 | While in Clermont he emerged as the focus for those who were dissatisfied with the status quo — just as Childebert I had earlier appeared as an ally for Arcadius . |
| 11 | Of the 90-odd writers and politicians billed to speak , most hailed from the soft and hard left , and were hostile to the status quo , or abolitionist . |
| 12 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 14 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 15 | The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent . |
| 16 | He is chairman of Business in the Community both in Scotland and England , and is joint-chairman of the Per Cent Club , a group of companies that pledge a proportion of their income to the community . |
| 17 | Erm Okay so that 's er that 's some of the erm er major aspects of er of of the congress system . |
| 18 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 19 | That 's one of the shamp er carpet shampoos . |
| 20 | She is impatient with the status quo and the traditional style of decision-making by compromising with the major interests . |
| 21 | The machine was fitted with a generous 16Mb of RAM and 256Kb of secondary cache RAM , which is necessary on a 66MHz DX2 . |
| 22 | Anyone booking a six-day or longer package is entitled to an A la Carte discount booklet that covers Hong Kong shopping , restaurants , nightlife and sightseeing trips . |
| 23 | Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ . |
| 24 | I was asleep after the crême brulée g . |
| 25 | The most important single Cubist exhibition was that of the Section d'Or at the Galerie de la Boétie in October 1912 . |
| 26 | but it was , to me , it was more like a erm er , er a sponge erm like a pudding sponge . |