Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be preferable that the original action proceed rather than being convoluted into a negligence action . |
| 2 | In many ways the latter approach would be preferable since the essential question is whether the charge was intended to secure some new value and the requirement to register it within 21 days of its creation would suffice to protect those dealing with company . |
| 3 | An instructor Karen Gardner , 21 , was said to be stable and the other instructor , Anthony Mann , 23 , stable and comfortable . |
| 4 | Added to this , the Government 's expressed aim to reduce public expenditure suggests there may be little or no overall boost to the Regional Council 's capital budget . |
| 5 | If one of the piezo blocks is not touching the saddle , there will be little or no noticeable output from that particular string . |
| 6 | At some point in training , then , the loss of effectiveness of the inhibitory association occasioned by a change of context will counteract the reduced effectiveness of the excitatory association more or less exactly and the outcome will be little or no net change in the observed CR . |
| 7 | That may be unnecessary if the in-house service runs efficiently . ’ |
| 8 | Starving Somalis , and now it seems , starving Bosnians , and many others have reason to be grateful that the generous conscience of America can still be roused to action , often at major risk to American lives . |
| 9 | He said that his first speech in the previous coal debate made the headlines of Coal News , but I do not think that the chairman of British Coal will be grateful that the hon. Gentleman has halved the take and production of coal in his remarks . |
| 10 | I would be grateful if the Noble Earl who will , I assume be replying on their behalf , I hope he will be able to explain this matter to us . |
| 11 | I would be grateful if the Noble Earl was able to answer these questions . |
| 12 | I should be grateful if the hon. Gentleman will confirm that that is the Government 's intention . |
| 13 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 14 | It is easy to debate in this House and reveal inherent contradictions between one side and the other and to make simplistic points about how one side must be right and the other wrong . |
| 15 | With video the setting has to be thought about , the appearance of the characters has to be right and the plain fact of seeing as well as hearing means that it is much more difficult to establish credibility . |
| 16 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 17 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 18 | If this is satisfactory then no further action is required , as the fasting cholesterol will be lower than the random determination . |
| 19 | But the price raised by an estate agent desperate for his commission is now all too likely to be lower than the original mortgage taken out by the borrower . |
| 20 | It may be lower than the original investment . |
| 21 | If investors assume that the expected level of demand will be lower than the so-called equilibrium position ( the position that yields what economists term ‘ warranted growth ’ ) then the level of savings in the economy will exceed investment , and therefore demand will be lower than expected . |
| 22 | Since the conductivity is very low , precise techniques would need to be developed for its measurement , which may present very difficult problems to be overcome , but the research programme would be complete once the relevant information had been obtained . |
| 23 | The process will only be complete when the national executive endorses the candidate . |
| 24 | However , this may not always be possible and a good list will be categorised in such a way that sections can be taken out and used as appropriate . |
| 25 | Early identification of accelerated rise will be possible if the year-to-year variability can be understood and removed from the records . |
| 26 | An EPLF representative in Washington , Tesfai Ghermazien , had meanwhile said that a " major breakthrough " might be possible if the Ethiopian government were to offer a referendum on independence for Eritrea . |
| 27 | It was to be 1925 before the downward pressure in wages was to again produce the threat of major industrial conflict in the coalfields . |
| 28 | However , if the sands are mixed with silt , porosity may be low because the fine silt particles tend to clog the void dense igneous rocks can hold and transmit water if they are fractured , although the pore space is negligible . |
| 29 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 30 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |