Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty should be alright and just half an inch to go round the corner . |
| 2 | Nearly all the participants described in these accounts were male and nearly all the studies were undertaken by male sociologists who had some difficulty communicating with young women . |
| 3 | It was because of this , along with the commonplaces of fashionable racial theory , that most educated Russians at the beginning of the twentieth century were convinced that practically all the smaller peoples of Siberia were irrevocably doomed to extinction . |
| 4 | It is clear that almost all the European Free Trade Association countries , except perhaps Iceland , will want to join the Community . |
| 5 | ‘ It is true that practically all the world 's 500–600 active volcanoes — someone may have bothered to count them , I have n't — are located along convergent plate boundaries . |
| 6 | A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion . |
| 7 | As we have seen , it was encouraging that over half the applicants , while not taking a course at the institutions in our study , did take up courses at other institutions . |
| 8 | ‘ They were the fun part , because she was lovely and just such a giggle . ’ |