Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but one of them I 'll sign in your presence Maisie and her twenty year old son , not hundred per cent happy about it , I 'd prefer older people cos youngest like that are inclined try to put their music on a bit loud or invite their friends in when mum 's away , you know , and . |
| 2 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 3 | Had that been another threat . |
| 4 | Hear Labour are one point five I heard it yesterday |
| 5 | It 's inevitable that the environmentalist vote will be squeezed in an election where the Tories and Labour are running neck and neck . |
| 6 | The implications of this are increased unemployment , since the government can not continue indefinitely expanding the non-marketed sector . |
| 7 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 8 | Among those who will do this are Combined Power Systems , SPP Energy and British Gas . |
| 9 | The first three lines of this are exaggerated Stoicism ; but what is the ‘ hope ’ of the casually thrown-in last line ? |
| 10 | Probably contemporary with this are some bronze shields with relief decoration of purely if crudely oriental character . |
| 11 | Examples of this are high gloss and art papers . |
| 12 | Additional SmartStream products for 1993 are Financial Stream , released first quarter , followed by Logistics and Manufacturing Stream . |
| 13 | Some are long distance horses , you see , you train them all separately . |
| 14 | Some are general cargo boats , often carrying goods in containers . |
| 15 | Some are Advanced Management students between thirty-seven and fifty . |
| 16 | The absurdest dreams are probably some of the most difficult to remember , but some are great fun , like this one by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice . |
| 17 | Some are giant oil tankers . |
| 18 | still there , there is n't , there is n't as much as there used to be , but some are fair amount |
| 19 | Some are near extinction in other parts of the country . |
| 20 | Some are chloro- methane is an sort o , an analogy . |
| 21 | Some are local saint 's days , others are more important and attract people from all over the island . |
| 22 | The major sources of information about what happened before 1985 are two Home Office reports . |
| 23 | Chapters 1 and 2 are essential reading for understanding this chapter , and chapters 3 and 6 are also useful background . |
| 24 | Perhaps more interesting are surrounding interoperability features due in the release , which will enable object technologies like a request broker and C++ application programming interfaces to be integrated into the environment . |
| 25 | Perhaps more interesting are surrounding interoperability features due in the release , which will allow object technologies like a request broker and C++ application programming interfaces to be integrated into the environment . |
| 26 | Associated with this were better teamworking , improved communication , and liaison between the professionals involved . |
| 27 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 28 | He laughed as though this were clever comment . |
| 29 | I 've often heard people say , ‘ You can always see someone worse off than yourself , ca n't you ? ’ as if this were any comfort ! |
| 30 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |