Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 2 | Tess had been calm since the baptism and she remained calm . |
| 3 | ‘ Ask away , oh anxious one , for you are lovelier than an aardvark and I can deny you nothing , ’ said the seal , whisking the waves into a fountain with her mighty tail . |
| 4 | I am clear that the proposal that we are discussing , which involves a two-level station , is the best for Londoners and the best for travellers , whether international or domestic . |
| 5 | We are fortunate that the leadership and whole-hearted support of our Minister and Kirk Session enable us to ‘ use our powers for those who are powerless ’ . |
| 6 | We are fortunate that the super-power that remains has no instinct or appetite for dominating the world by oppression and force . |
| 7 | Such contracts are appropriate because the timing and level of the peak can be determined with a high degree of certainty . |
| 8 | You are pretty as a picture and we would not want you drawing attention to yourself , would we ! ’ |
| 9 | These are three and a half so they 'd be slightly longer . |
| 10 | Bless all who are married and every parent and child . |
| 11 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 12 | In these cases abortions are legal if the mother or child is diagnosed by two doctors ( usually the G.P. and the gynaecologist performing the operation ) . |
| 13 | Judge Blofeld said : ‘ I am unhappy that an incident that requires a court hearing can not have one . ’ |
| 14 | Generally , links with other services are poor and the contribution that doctors and nurses can make to specific treatment is entirely lost . |
| 15 | To expand on that ; many girls would retain the values of civilisation and would want democracy and order and all that , as Ralph did , and eventually I am sure that a girl or girls would break away , causing a rift in the group , I think that the causes of the rift would be more trivial and the arguments more verbal and less brutally physical than the boys , but girls are capable of a great deal of spite and bitter unforgiveness and if more than one leader-figure emerges , they may later argue . |
| 16 | I am sure that the hospital that my hon. Friend has in mind will wish to take account of her comments . |
| 17 | I am sure that the President and his advisors and most of the scientists who went to work on this project had heavy hearts … |
| 18 | The Booksellers and Publishers Associations are concerned that the trade and the public will be lulled into a false sense of security by recent press reports that the Prime Minister is taking control of economic policy and that he is widely believed to be against increasing taxes , including VAT . |
| 19 | Then the distribution of the number r ab of clones which hybridise to both probes conditional on n ab clones hybridising to either probe is binomial B ( n ab , 1- d ab ) , since the clones are independent and the probability that a clone hybridises to both probes given that it hybridises to one is 1- d ab . |
| 20 | I accept that few boat owners find the cost of repair or maintenance work cheap , but costs of running these businesses are enormous and the plant and equipment needed expensive to buy and maintain . |
| 21 | Since the general election the move to fundholding has been dramatic and the suggestion that cash limiting will apply to all practitioners will fuel this trend . |
| 22 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 23 | We would be grateful if the disk and the pages could be returned to the Library . |
| 24 | I 'm sorry but the tape while you 're otherwise I 'll |
| 25 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 26 | The slower children will be disadvantaged because the work offered is too difficult ; the more able children will be disadvantaged because the challenge that school should offer them has disappeared . |
| 27 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 28 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 29 | ‘ It gives me a lot of pleasure to be top but the fact that everybody is surprised is disappointing . ’ |
| 30 | In the future we need to be quicker than the competition and totally focused on customer satisfaction and production requirements . |