Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set out to make sweeping historical epics but all they can come up with are mini-series with no ad breaks . |
| 2 | Both establishments had open fronts so that conditions for employees could not have been pleasant during the winter months . |
| 3 | Smetana 's Vltava was pleasant , beautifully in tune — parts of the piece are cruel to the wind players — but it trickled into glorious Prague like a kindly trout stream , instead of surging with splendour . |
| 4 | Sir , I am grateful to the Christmas Critics ' Crowner ( 18th/25th December ) for drawing your readers ' attention to the fate of W J West , perhaps the most victimised author of 1992 , who now awaits sentence on what is poised to become the most controversial book of 1993 , The Crisis in Bookselling . |
| 5 | I took refuge , therefore , in my customary routines sketching a few brief memoranda for Monday morning , removing the paper clips strewn about my otherwise tidy desk , checking that the main office windows were all shut , even although the Security staff would be along later , and that was strictly speaking their job , and that all the typewriters had been unplugged from the wall sockets . |
| 6 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 7 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 8 | At the peak of the wave , the open latches are clear of the sinker posts . |
| 9 | The crucial evidence was that there was no indication that the manner of Williams ' driving had been unsuited to the road conditions , and she had not been drinking . |
| 10 | The spaces of interest to us here belong to a category called Riemann spaces which are distinguished by having metric equations that are quadratic in the coordinate separations . |
| 11 | Severums ( above ) are popular on the problem pages but the Oscar ( right ) brings in 10% of queries . |
| 12 | It has also been remarkable , in the past few weeks , that people who had not been born in 1953 have been conspicuous at the anniversary celebrations . |
| 13 | They are analogous to the family saloons that car production lines turn out by the thousand . |
| 14 | There seem to have been relatively few trading links with Attica , which is surprising , although a scatter of finds at Thorikos suggests that the Minoans may have been interested in the silver ores there ; if so , the island of Kea could have been used as a trading station for their transfer to Crete . |
| 15 | These are some of the milestone constituencies to watch out for tonight — early declarations , marginals that may indicate a trend , ministers whose seats are at risk and well-known candidates . |
| 16 | Below are some of the hospital schemes that they described . |
| 17 | In Leopold Street are some of the lace factories that brought prosperity and expansion to this former village in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | Of more immediate concern are some of the labour problems created by deregulation . |
| 19 | The only complaints to be levelled at the Nevada are some of the design features and durability ( or lack of it ) . |
| 20 | The following are some of the power bases used in work organizations . |
| 21 | The catalogue user would seem to have been conditioned to seek information solely in terms of the system 's own requirements , which are dependent on the title descriptions of documents . |
| 22 | Right , Microfit holds this in this regard and every regression that you estimate will always have a table of diagnostic test statistics after it , right , so although we are interested in the parameter values of our estira estimated right , in order to have any confidence in those parameter values you must ensure that we have n't violated any of the assumptions |
| 23 | The fine and standard gauge Silver electronics and the Knitmaster electronics are different to the punchcard machines . |
| 24 | First , the new residents in Dunrossness are different from the construction workers who live in camps situated in various parts of Shetland ( including a camp at the airport ) : these latter are only temporary residents whose residence in Shetland , and whose supposed commitment to Shetland , will end with the end of the construction phase of the.oil era . |
| 25 | And Flanagan , a close friend of Best , added : ‘ I am delighted at the way things have worked out for Nigel — because the fans do n't realise how much pressure he was under when he took the job . |
| 26 | Ideally , Newco should require the vendor to disclose any items in the assets to be sold which are subject to the capital goods scheme . |
| 27 | IN ORDER to combine with the coastal counts of wildfowl and waders , which are subject to the tide times , we covered the March wildfowl count at Abberton Reservoir on the 7th of the month when , customarily , counting takes place in mid-month . |
| 28 | There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need . |
| 29 | Appendix ten which is attached to the erratum sheet , it 's the seventh page , you 'll see there that you 've got in front of you all the figures that were really erm concerned with in favour of the and amend er the report on lines fifty four A and fifty four B showing two hundred thousand pounds savings on school meals and you will see that reflected in the columns headed Conservatives , Labour and Liberal Democrats and those are consistent with the resolution papers that are in front of you . |
| 30 | Areas which had previously been central to the stealing networks were affected . |