Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright intervals are possible and apart from the chance of a light shower it should stay dry milder than of late with a top temperature of eleven celsius fifty two fahrenheit in a moderate south easterly wind . |
| 2 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 3 | These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether . |
| 4 | His moral sentiments are unexceptional , but as a contribution to the ‘ battle of ideas … at the centre of the political struggle ’ , they are null and quite beside the point . |
| 5 | Zena a Kurdish representative in London says the two are safe and well in a secret guerilla camp . |
| 6 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 7 | At Ayr today , Tom Troubadour , denied a run when slightly injured just before the Ritz Club Trophy Chase at the Cheltenham Festival , should be fresh and well for the William Hill Scottish National , which appears a more comfortable assignment . |
| 8 | With reinstatement forming a continuous process disturbance to agriculture would be minimal and apart from the quarry face being worked there would be little to spoil the view either . |
| 9 | I think tranquillizers can be useful as well for a very short time limited period . |
| 10 | No doubt the governors ' admissions policy must be reasonable but apart from the express statutory provisions in section 6 of the Act of 1980 , there is no requirement as to the criteria to be adopted in such policies . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure that once in a while we can be in the same kitchen without explosions occurring , do n't you agree ? |
| 12 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 13 | The legislature concluded that it was inconvenient for leases for the duration of the war to be void and therefore by the Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 Parliament provided , by section 1(1) , that any agreement entered into before or after the passing of the Act which purported to grant a tenancy for the duration of the war : |
| 14 | ‘ That you ’ Proof of the identity of an accused exposing his/her person may be difficult and apart from an admission a witness is required to say that the man/woman in the court dock is the person who exposed their person . |
| 15 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 16 | It is possible for the conclusion of an inductive argument to be false and for the premises to be true and yet for no contradiction to be involved . |
| 17 | The room used for the interview should be quiet and away from the general office traffic and bustle . |
| 18 | In patients without a gall bladder the biliary related complications have been negligible and probably for the elderly and or debilitated patients , this represents the optimum method of management . |
| 19 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 20 | The match-guising results were interesting because instead of the typical prestige of the standard language , and the attractiveness of a dia You know a If you did R P and say er Cockney , you 'd probably get people saying that their R P was prestigious but the cockney was sort of more you know y more friendly and more attractive accent . |
| 21 | We asked her mother who , in spite of being Jewish and already in a precarious position , did not hesitate for a moment . |
| 22 | In a random sample of women in Camberwell , the researchers found the following relationships between provoking agents and depression , first among a sample of women who were vulnerable and secondly among a sample of women who were not . |
| 23 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 24 | More persuasively , it has to be borne in mind that these are passages which need to be read in the context not only of the cases in which they were concerned but also of the judgments as a whole . |
| 25 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 26 | Then she saw that the verandah doors were open and inside in the shade on two wicker-chairs , talking earnestly to one another , were Rosette and Andrée . |
| 27 | Manners and the preservation of an image of the manager as being all-seeing and ahead of the game , were very important . |
| 28 | Its low drag offers lines that are taut and straight throughout a broad wind window . |
| 29 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 30 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |