Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 You must be used to the way men react to you .
2 The hon. Lady did not seem to realise that the diversification policy of those industries can not be cross-financed from the core businesses — I wish that the hon. Lady would listen , because she might learn something and avoid mistakes in future .
3 For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole .
4 Since more than one successful path through the grammar may be necessary ( more than one syntactic combination may be possible from the candidate words ) a parallel process would also appear to be a logical choice .
5 The proportion of energy imports , however , will fall very little so that any economic improvement resulting from Spain 's lessening of oil reliance will be dependent on the market prices of imported gas , coal and crude oil .
6 And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day .
7 While the Guidelines are merely informative of how the Justice Department approaches merger situations , and do not bind the Department , the Federal Trade Commission , or private litigants , they are helpful to firms and their advisers in assessing whether a particular merger is likely to be acceptable to the competition authorities .
8 ‘ He did leave Royston for a while at the same time as you , and a priest would be acceptable within the convent walls at Coldstream . ’
9 ‘ If you are going to play games in the dark , ’ he said , ‘ please be careful of the back stairs on the first floor .
10 I would presume people would interpret to be contiguous with the district boundaries , where a district boundary straddles that line .
11 The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing .
12 Bloomfield said : ‘ If 30 million people can watch England in the World Cup surely some of those would be interested in the football results . ’
13 1.3 If the goods and/or the work the subject of this order are to be used in carrying out or otherwise in connection with another contract specified overleaf this order shall be subject to the contract conditions of such specified contract in so far as the same are applicable and do not conflict with these purchase conditions .
14 The curriculum guide-lines outlined in the 1988 Act offer an entitlement for all children , but the quality of these experiences will be subject to the way schools interpret and act on these four important elements .
15 Any alteration by you within six weeks of departure will be treated as a cancellation of the original booking and will be subject to the cancellation charges set out below .
16 One issue will be what interest is to be payable on the retention monies .
17 The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies .
18 The associated dipole changes must be perpendicular to the M-P bonds , but the dipole arrows may lie either in the PMP plane or perpendicular to it ( see Fig. 5.39 ) , and the two sets are not equivalent .
19 After a 12-year reign it wo n't be easy for the Republican workers to start over again .
20 the site must be accessible during the winter months .
21 It may be unfortunate in the unity talks between the two opposing factions that Ebrahim Patel has thus far chosen to make what many would consider to be totally unrealistic demands for his 93-year-old SA Rugby Union .
22 They offer a challenge to any simplistic view of the relative skills of the ‘ lay ’ parent and the ‘ professional ’ teacher , by demonstrating that while parents may never be conscious of the teaching strategies they use to help their child acquire language , they are in a very important sense , their children 's teachers .
23 However , these elements of care should not be confused with the treatment methods themselves , and there are clear delineations between the various professional practitioners .
24 However , for colliding plane waves , the boundary conditions are of a totally different character , and many of the solutions of Ernst 's equation that are appropriate for axisymmetric fields , such as the Tomimatsu-Sato solutions , are now found to be inconsistent with the boundary conditions for colliding plane waves .
25 The dates for moving forward must be subordinate to the convergence conditions .
26 The new machine is capable of producing 800–1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays .
27 Undertakings entrusted with the operation of ‘ services of general economic interest ’ or ‘ having the character of a revenue-producing monopoly ’ have a special status , and under certain circumstances defined in Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , those special activities may be exempt from the competition rules .
28 The reasoning behind this is that the first 65 litres will contain any contaminates which might be present on the grape skins , but readers should not be alarmed because the wines must pass an analytical examination before being sold .
29 In addition , such lobes were found to be negative for the macrophage markers 5C6 and F4/80 ( ref.18 ) and the reticular fibroblast marker ERTR7 ( ref.16 ) .
30 And I was really pushed into dance because they always want as many men or boys as possible to be involved in the dance bits . ’
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