Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 2 | Its grounds are private and to the west of the lodge the trail leaves the road to cross Kenmure Moss . |
| 3 | Incomes in the area have therefore been lower than in the UK as a whole , and out-migration has reduced the region 's share of Scotland 's total population from about 20 per cent in the mid-eighteenth century to about 5 per cent today . |
| 4 | A central aim of the work is to determine the extent to which will founded generalisations are Possible as to the manner in which the structure of these industries evolves . |
| 5 | If you are pregnant and under the age of sixteen , it is compulsory that you receive some sort of education until you reach this age . |
| 6 | However , yields have always been low because of the climate . |
| 7 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |
| 8 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 9 | Many of the new innovations have only been possible because of the company 's commitment to total quality management ( TQM ) . |
| 10 | Mr Neill , whose grandfather founded the company , said : ‘ I am sorry that in the future I will not have any shares in the company that bears my surname . ’ |
| 11 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |
| 12 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 13 | " But " , he added , " I am afraid that to the aestheticians of these days you will seem like a sleepwalker , whom it is inadvisable , not to say dangerous , and , above all , impossible to follow . " |
| 14 | I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation . |
| 15 | The hybridisation patterns are different except for the Eco RI fragment of 6.5 kb detected by both probes . |
| 16 | Most of the agencies that we shall be describing in the following sections would claim to offer information , advice and assistance but some are dubious as to the extent to which they should take action on behalf of a client and some will refer a matter on to specialists when they reach the limits of their competence . |
| 17 | All of these introductions are personal and to the point . |
| 18 | An aspect of the purported effects of the political system is the policy co-option argument — that the extreme right , at least in recent years , has been unsuccessful because of the ease with which some of its appeals ( or some attenuated version of them ) can be adopted by major parties , after the former parties have shown themselves unable to break into the political system . |
| 19 | So , when British representatives attend international conferences to conserve salmon they are treated as pariahs and are impotent because of the continuation of nylon drift-netting off the English coast . |
| 20 | And for children ⅕ of the amount of those benefits stated for adults are payable except in the case of a fatal accident where 1/50 of the total benefit would be paid . ) |
| 21 | Heating costs are minimal because of the weather . |
| 22 | The fare increases would have been bigger but for the governments last minute intervention . |
| 23 | Indeed , the differences are such that to the student weaned on a study of the United States Constitution , the British Constitution is nearly incomprehensible . |
| 24 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 25 | They 're all cos of the heart trouble in the family , you know . |
| 26 | You 're rare because of the way |
| 27 | Erm , now that leaves us with er , really the er , the publishing , the educational publishing er , the newspapers , magazines , electronic publishing , in all those areas we 're active and on the lookout . |
| 28 | They tell me you 're smart and on the level . |
| 29 | The forces are larger than in the experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke but the torque can only be reversed by bodily rotating the apparatus , which gives large and irreversible effects that vitiate the method . |
| 30 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |