Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are predominantly agricultural labourers in Bolivia 's main Quechua-speaking areas : Cochabamba , Potosi and Sucre . |
| 2 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 3 | There are rather similar findings for writing . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 5 | Computers are effectively large arrays of switches , which can be either ‘ on ’ or ‘ off . |
| 6 | ‘ Users who have been successfully running applications on systems which are now nearing the end of their life cycle , such as the NCR Tower , will now be able to right-size to UnixWare platforms . |
| 7 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 8 | Even in split schools ( mainly in rural areas ) there are presumably close links between levels , and a high degree of curriculum continuity . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to make similar observations in the case of other adjectives : ( 8 ) a meteorological expert romantic novelists foreign policy a nuclear scientist animate nouns the royal hatmaker All these are wholly respectable phrases of English ( especially the last one ) but , in every case , a test using the sentence " This N is A " will either give a meaning to the adjective which is different from that in the original phrase , or simply produce an unacceptable result . |
| 10 | On the other hand , middle-out strategies are computationally explosive methods of search requiring highly tuned scoring methods and matching strategies to constrain the exploration of all the myriad combinations of possible hypotheses . |
| 11 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 12 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |
| 13 | There are obviously certain groups of people from whom there is a greater risk of catching a disease just as there are certain areas of the world where the prevalence of diseases is higher than others , but , wherever you are , it is the change of sexual partner that is the crucial risk-producing move . |
| 14 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 15 | Both the A+ parts are highly decorated versions of A. |
| 16 | Children are highly motivated learners of language , a disposition no doubt by now ‘ wired in ’ to our species . |
| 17 | And there are highly qualified instructors on hand to advise you . |
| 18 | A disturbing number of librarians now appear to believe that their jobs may legitimately be used to proselytize , for political and other beliefs , and to be unaware that these are highly damaging views for librarians to hold . |
| 19 | Between these race-going tales the book charts the growth of gambling from modest and sleazy origins into a multi-million-pound industry and , if some of the material here is rather stodgy , top-heavy with facts , there are enough exotic characters on view to hold the attention . |
| 20 | I think there are enough common factors in management , including the role of chairman , that apply to all or most businesses , such as the need for careful succession planning , the need for developing a strategy or a corporate plan . |
| 21 | There are less traumatic events in life that can be quite as overwhelming or perplexing without some form of preparation — a visit to an airport or a dairy farm ; first experiments with make-up and fashion ; and first dates and discos . |
| 22 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 23 | Excluding the interesting view of God offered by the various sects , there are apparently different forms of theism promoted by Jews , Christians , Moslems , Sikhs , Hindus and perhaps Buddhists in Britain alone . |
| 24 | Turina 's Three Fantasy Dances are brilliantly imaginative impressions of Spain creating in Pizarro 's hands , a magnificent finale to an evening of enthralling pianism . |
| 25 | But if you widen the pavements and you differentiate the pavements from the roadway , and you use continental traffic calming measures which are not great big humps but which are perhaps little stretches of cobbles and things like that , then you should be able to bring the speed down to twenty miles an hour . |
| 26 | They point out that under the first-past-the-post system a small swing in votes tends to produce a major change in parliamentary strength so " exaggerating " a party 's lead in parliament in a way that leads to sharp swings in policy when there are only small shifts in voting and still more limited changes in public opinion . |
| 27 | Of course it can never be known whether the right answer has been reached ( unless somebody dredges up a ‘ living fossil ’ from the depths of the ocean ) — there are only varying degrees of probability . |
| 28 | But these are only indirect duties of kindness since our direct duty is not to animals but to our fellow human beings whose objections to cruelty constitute genuine rights against us . |
| 29 | Throughout his discussion , terms such as ‘ individual ’ or ‘ person ’ appear in quotation marks , to indicate that they are only convenient figures of speech , not to be confused with the subjects of bourgeois ideology . |
| 30 | But it is not clear if the latter records indicate passage or are merely wide-scale wanderings by birds with no permanent winter site . |