Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Letting the words flow over her Jezrael waited , standing loose , as though this were some jam dance session . |
| 32 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 33 | There may be other more altruistic motives such as the sponsor being the largest employer in the town and this being one way of expressing community concern . |
| 34 | The explanation for this being that weather caused by frequent vigorous systems coming off a relatively warm Atlantic is not conducive to lengthy spells of severe frost . |
| 35 | A few were downright criminal : Corbett had seen cases in King 's Bench of priests who used their churches to brew beer , as gambling dens , or even worse . |
| 36 | Of the offences uncovered by the BCS only a tiny proportion were crimes of serious violence , and very few were serious property offences such as burglary or car theft . |
| 37 | What does assertive being assertive mean ? |
| 38 | WHEN PURE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING WAS DEVELOPED IN ENGLAND IN THE 19TH CENTURY , THE FRENCH WERE DEVELOPING GOUACHE PAINTING TECHNIQUES WHICH WERE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AND APPEALING . |
| 39 | When pure watercolour painting was developed in England in the 19th century , the French were developing gouache painting techniques which were just as successful and appealing . |
| 40 | Some were traditional gypsy vardos but more were luxurious modern homes pulled by Range Rovers and Mercedes . |
| 41 | They were not all scandalous , though ; some were conventional love songs of the sort you could hear at the cinema or on the radio , if you had one . |
| 42 | These seigniorial rights were varied and complex : some were disguised rent payments ; other residuary feudal dues ; others arose from the sale or grant of municipal office . |
| 43 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 44 | For a start , there is more power available and the larger speaker obviously lends a great deal to the 30 's overall performance . |
| 45 | In the 30 's fashionable furniture with a limed oak finish would have the oak converted to a silvery-grey finish before the grain was filled . |
| 46 | What Jencks 's argument makes clear is that inheritance theories are only of practical value when the inherited characteristic is specified , together with the way in which it actually operates to produce criminal behaviour . |
| 47 | What does seem clear is that Nu was one of the hardliners : he was suspicious of the British Government 's intentions , particularly with regard to keeping the Frontier Areas apart on ‘ Divide and Rule ’ lines . |
| 48 | In all these projects , what has become clear is that software configuration control is essential . |
| 49 | However , what is clear is that agriculture in many parts of the developing world is extremely vulnerable to even a slight worsening of conditions ( Parry , 1990 ) . |
| 50 | What is now becoming clear is that clozapine produces a build up of dopamine in different receptors from other neuroleptics , and this gives a strong indication that another neurochemical abnormality underlies at least some symptoms of the disorder . |
| 51 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 52 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 53 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 54 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 55 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 56 | The system uses Concurrent 's proprietary operating system OS/32 , which according to an AWA spokesman is best suited to a ‘ multiple property ’ environment . |
| 57 | The new multiprocessors , using the MIPS Technologies Inc R4400 chip , will initially be offered with Concurrent 's existing Unix implementation , with the System V.4.2 MP version becoming available six months later . |
| 58 | The new multiprocessors , using the MIPS R4400 chip , will initially be offered with Concurrent 's existing Unix implementation , with the SVR4.2 MP version becoming available six months later . |
| 59 | The products , combined with Concurrent 's Intelligent Bus Interface Module for VMEbus provide an intelligent data movement subsystem that gives a Concurrent data acquisition system ‘ enormous ’ data capture capability . |
| 60 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it has signed up Cranfield Data Systems Ltd here and Istar SA in France to market complete systems for the dynamic analysis and vibration control sectors of the Measurement and Control market : the alliance will provide a portfolio of Open Dynamic Analysis Solutions running on Concurrent 's real-time computing systems and related services in application areas such as Rotating Machinery Analysis , Modal Analysis , Acoustics Analysis , and Vibration Control , using the Concurrent Series 7000 real-time Unix systems . |