Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be preferable to the plans for an ugly toll bridge . |
| 2 | When the test samples are less stable than the controls , interpretation is less easy since such samples may , nevertheless , be stable under the conditions of the market . |
| 3 | At levels 9 and 10 , the activities themselves will not differ significantly in kind , but pupils will require teaching which helps them to act with increasing confidence and fluency , to take a leading role in discussions , to be supportive of the contributions of others , to prepare presentations effectively ( including the use of audiovisual aids and handouts ) , to be rigorous in argument and the use of evidence , and to take effective account of audience and context . |
| 4 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 5 | Many others had reason to be grateful to the Quakers for refusing to give up their mission to help refugees . |
| 6 | The Corporation expressed their satisfaction with the endowment and their conviction that it would be ample for the purposes of the School . |
| 7 | ‘ We could never be respectable in the eyes of the world , ’ said Jean , ‘ but that hardly matters . ’ |
| 8 | One important qualification here is , however , that answers to survey questions are variable over time and the fullest surveys available are now somewhat out of date : one must be alert to the changes since the late 1960s when the surveys of Butler and Stokes ( 1974 ) and Townsend ( 1979 ) were conducted ( these form the basis of the following discussion ) . |
| 9 | The therapist should be alert to the possibilities of a patient losing all hope . |
| 10 | We should be alert for the side-effects of critical doubt . |
| 11 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 12 | RM1 's use of a general corpus could even cause the correct words in a particular utterance to be depressed below the scores of competing homophonic phrases . |
| 13 | In the initial post-operative period patients may be drowsy from the effects of anaesthesia or analgesia . |
| 14 | Thirdly it helps to be specific about the tasks to be undertaken and the time to be allocated to them . |
| 15 | The third and perhaps chief problem related to general degrees is their status , which tends to be lower in the eyes of academics , and perhaps employers , than their academic or professional counterparts . |
| 16 | Nowadays , Saint-Jean deals chiefly in the large if unappetizing tuna and the extremely appetizing but , compared with the whale , somewhat trivial catch , of anchovies ; but it is a town that smells very satisfactorily of brine and can be loud with the engines of trawlers if you go down to the harbour at the right moment . |
| 17 | However , it can be possible for the documents to be signed after you have sent a payment by cheque provided that you arrange for us to hold the cheque and not pay it into the bank until we have received the signed Deed of Covenant . |
| 18 | It may be possible for the arrangements for the funeral to be made direct with the crematorium or cemetery and minister of religion if desired . |
| 19 | It covers as much ground as must be possible within the covers of a manageable book . |
| 20 | If the Front-Bench spokesmen and those who are called before 7 o'clock exercise discretion , it may be possible in the interests of the whole House to relax that limit . |
| 21 | He must only be alive between the covers of a book , and not anywhere else . |
| 22 | It may be the result of inability to maintain a constant frequency of electrical control activity and this may be due to the effects of muscle disease on groups of muscle cells producing populations with altered frequencies . |
| 23 | Mintel chief executive John Cunningham said : ‘ Some of the variations in price will be due to differences in exchange rates , some will be due to the differences in local raw materials and production or shipping costs , and some will be due to variation in taxes . |
| 24 | Many of the cases of torsades de pointes reported during procainamide therapy may be due to the actions of its active metabolite , N-acetylprocainamide , which often accumulates in patients with renal disease . |
| 25 | The lower incomes may be due to the types of jobs available in country locations or to lower wages being paid in rural areas compared to urban areas for the same jobs . |
| 26 | Without ( for example ) a grasp of what the Bible teaches about human nature he will soon be speechless before the claims of twentieth-century humanity . |
| 27 | They should be encouraged to express their opinions and argue a point of view , to be receptive to the contributions of others and be helped to make their own contributions confidently and effectively . |
| 28 | In terms of the age distribution , the elasticity of expected duration with respect to benefits is 0.18 for men under 20 , decreases with age to a value of 0.06 for men over 55 ; NNS found the effect to be largest for the teenagers with a value of 0.65 . |
| 29 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 30 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |