Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partner in the Washington DC and Century City ( CA ) offices , he has been the principal corporate and litigation lawyer for Princess Cruises for the past five years . |
| 2 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 3 | These will be the striking black and apple green ex-LNER express 's finals workings before the expiry of her seven-year-long boiler certificate . |
| 4 | Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and miraculously the whole things was over , instead of our having to face what would probably be a long naval and air war against Japan , which we should of course have won in the end — after unthinkable losses of men and equipment . |
| 5 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 6 | But , of course , overlaying and underlying this trans-parency were the old tribal and family feuds and enmities which had put most of the followings into the rival camps in the first place . |
| 7 | If we view this group as " conservative " , the same is not true of the distinct world of the Lombard Street banks whose depositors were the true mercantile and financier groups of the City . |
| 8 | OpenAgent Connection may require Windows for Workgroups to take advantage of its management interface or Windows 3.1 's follow-on Windows 3.2. nQue figures its marketplace is the downsizing scientific and engineering workstation user , the rightsizing PC workgroup and the upsizing PC power user . |
| 9 | A market centre since the 12th century , Birmingham is a major industrial and business city , with a proud heritage of enterprise and craftsmanship . |
| 10 | It is one of the greatest tragedies of the church in the west today that there is a similar grumbling and hardening of heart , so that the word of the Lord is simply not heard ; and if heard , then it is not obeyed . |
| 11 | She is a steady inland and sea paddler but had never been in a sea kayak . |
| 12 | Licensee Richard Salmon says : ‘ En suite is an absolute essential and business people expect to have a phone in the room . |
| 13 | There is an overall quiet and stillness in the marshlands despite the fact that there is much agricultural activity and some fair-sized villages interspersed with the hamlets . |
| 14 | In other words heads , governors , teachers , advisers , inspectors , researchers and evaluators ( whether these come from education or from a broader world of audit ) need to be trained to provide " the sort of information evaluatory mechanisms might provide … there is an informational feedforward and feedback need affecting all those personnel , both professional and lay , who make decisions associated with the system " ( Watson 1980 : 194 ) . |
| 15 | Supporting this vital basic industry there is an agricultural advisory and development service staffed predominantly by graduates , and an extensive and substantial agricultural programme financed by central government and by individual companies . |
| 16 | Although the Wealden pattern suggests a density of population and activity far greater than used to be thought , it was the great coastal and scarpland estates that had the most highly organised agriculture . |
| 17 | Although Exell 's reminiscences are coloured by the fact that he was an active Communist and trade unionist , they can not hide the fact that the pay in the new industries was generally good when compared with the majority of the working classes — and very high in periods of prosperity . |