Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ITV 's viewing figures are low because their First Division games are screened only in certain regions — but their choice last Sunday , Charlton 's goal-less draw with Birmingham , was a turn-off . |
| 2 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |
| 3 | Some people are dismayed when they first start to keep a log . |
| 4 | Despite her love of exercise , her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years . |
| 5 | Persons who are unsure whether their sexual partner has HIV infection should in any event take steps to protect themselves and their partner against possible transmission of the virus . |
| 6 | I would be grateful if your last issues are full of Private Eye and Ian Hislop bashing — the smug munchkin . |
| 7 | Would that be tactless as her first remark had , in retrospect , been tactless ? |
| 8 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 9 | I should be delighted if my hon. Friend 's constituents would care to drop me a note with information on their individual salaries . |
| 10 | In McAvan v London Transport Executive ( 1983 ) 133 NLJ 1101 reports prepared by a bus crew and an inspector after an accident were held to be privileged as their dominant purpose was to ascertain blame if a subsequent claim was made . |
| 11 | It will be valuable if our definitive document could be in place by the time FRS 3 comes into force on 22 June 1993 . |
| 12 | Indeed I shall be arguing that the drama will only be effective when its inner structure is felt by the participants . |
| 13 | The Director encouraged individuals to respond to the Scottish Office — to ensure these efforts are guided , it would be useful if your Divisional response on strategic planning was circulated within our Division as a standard framework . |
| 14 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 15 | But I 'm sure if we all pool our resources we might all be able to get exactly what we want . ’ |
| 16 | Esther Ward had more reason to be ashamed than her vulnerable sister Elizabeth , for she had taken advantage of the forbidden love which had grown between Elizabeth and Richard , and she had never once opened her heart to the innocent girl-child who was born out of that love . |
| 17 | Of course , I 'm biased because my American series , Talking With David Frost , is shown on BSkyB . |
| 18 | They set the tone thirty-five years ago and it would be wonderful if our present team could capture ‘ Sam ’ now . ’ |
| 19 | And now the whole Church is realizing that our preaching of a gospel of love and justice for all people can not be convincing while our visible structures deny these values . |
| 20 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 21 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 22 | I would be surprised if our Labour candidate even knew where the Business Venture could be found . |
| 23 | You can not be satisfied when our fellow citizens are saddled with an electoral system which leads to elective dictatoriship , and the corruption of parliamentary law-making processes . |
| 24 | If active citizenship is to be established , changes are essential as our present system does not seek to achieve it . |
| 25 | And both Bramble and Quince were relieved when their respective charges had finished lunch and set off again on their quest . |
| 26 | The accused contended that the vouchers were worthless because their essential character had been destroyed . |
| 27 | Despite their aching limbs , the pupils were delighted when their final total of 74 laps ( over eight miles ) raised a splendid £300 towards the £500 required to install a radio in Fowey lifeboat house . |
| 28 | We can now say that the meaning of an individual word is valuational to the extent that its prime role is to make the statements in which it occurs express certain attitudes , and that it is descriptive if its prime role is to specify the content either of the belief or of the attitude which sentences in which it occurs express . |
| 29 | The straight-haired , elegant Eugene appears to be the most cerebral member , which is odd since his previous incarnation was as leader of the decidedly bodily Vaselines , a group for whom the term ‘ Kings Of Perv-Rock ’ might have been invented . |
| 30 | And one of the 8-bit slots is unusable because its blanking plate carries the extra serial and games port . |