Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be grateful if your last issues are full of Private Eye and Ian Hislop bashing — the smug munchkin . |
| 2 | Would that be tactless as her first remark had , in retrospect , been tactless ? |
| 3 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 4 | Italian dessert cheeses tend to be creamier than their French counterpart , and therefore higher in calories . |
| 5 | I should be delighted if my hon. Friend 's constituents would care to drop me a note with information on their individual salaries . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The result is that Mr Clinton is unlikely to unveil his plan until the third week of June , and it could be later if his economic package encounters more problems . |
| 8 | It will be valuable if our definitive document could be in place by the time FRS 3 comes into force on 22 June 1993 . |
| 9 | Indeed I shall be arguing that the drama will only be effective when its inner structure is felt by the participants . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Since the problem in hand is one of excess supply in the labour market , the actual level of income , Y 1 , will be less than its full employment value , Y * ; . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although the book 's authors concede that ‘ bluffing , exaggeration and obfuscation are all part of the game ’ , they believe that honesty , friendliness and fairness may be more than their own reward . |
| 15 | ‘ Frank 's never going to be more than your average brain , ’ said Major Tilney to Toby Freely . |
| 16 | ‘ It might be more than your delicate ears could stand . |
| 17 | If the price of the good in their market is , for whatever reason , known to be higher than its average price in the whole economy they will take advantage of this high relative price and supply a higher quantity of the good than they otherwise would . |
| 18 | In Chapter 9 we discuss some of the arguments which have been put forward to suggest that British companies are likely to be slower than their international competitors in taking up new technology based products and production processes . |
| 19 | Could it be worse than her present situation ? whispered a treacherous small voice . |
| 20 | On June 21 he returned his campaign to policy specifics , an area where he was generally perceived to be stronger than his rival candidates , with a detailed reformulation of his economic proposals . |
| 21 | They set the tone thirty-five years ago and it would be wonderful if our present team could capture ‘ Sam ’ now . ’ |
| 22 | Use a dot of glue on the end-grain , on the centre line ; for the groove at one side might be tighter than its opposite number , and shrinkage will again occur all from one side if the panel is n't centre- anchored . |
| 23 | The choice should be greater because your local health authority will not be restricted to making agreements on services with hospitals within its own boundaries . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ We always had to be aware where their main dangers were coming from and defensively we did that . |
| 28 | I would be surprised if our Labour candidate even knew where the Business Venture could be found . |
| 29 | 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 . |