Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got it written er if you remember the rules of the game are that all Regional Railways work will go to a Regional Railways office and they will decide if it goes out . |
| 2 | And chances are that this haglike vision is simply advance warning — it could be years before your face finally settles into the low-slung , wrinkly cast you previewed with dismay . |
| 3 | Oh no I have n't been that that bad but I reckon I 've |
| 4 | My own experience , even before I was directly concerned in sexual therapy , has always been that few marital problems arise in which there is not some sexual content . |
| 5 | One of the main barriers between the development of general purpose systems has been that few existing systems can be re-used . |
| 6 | Until then , he had been that most inhuman of creatures — the public figure described by others as ‘ very human ’ . |
| 7 | I often have wondered what the Dalek might have been if some other Designer had designed it . |
| 8 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 9 | ‘ Our love was worth its weight in candyfloss ’ ( ‘ Endless Weekend ’ ) and the aphorism of a woman that ‘ her only weapon is her ecstasy ’ ( ‘ 100 Boys ’ ) are but two random examples . |
| 10 | These are but two tragic examples of laxity in a system which has achieved increasingly high standards of safety in worldwide civil aviation . |
| 11 | If ‘ Two Pints Of Wazzer ’ and ‘ Clean As Clark ’ are dull , overdone and in danger of slipping into pantomime rather than humorous satire , they are but mere red herrings before the frenzied energy and monstrous drum rolls of ‘ Japanese Girls ’ and ‘ Later F—Off ’ . |
| 12 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 13 | How big do they think kids heads are because that just fits me |
| 14 | It could be that one first-class photographer takes very much longer on studio work than another or that another industrial photographer can not work without bringing in extensive lighting systems . |
| 15 | Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins ? |
| 16 | But a person going about it seriously has to discount his own personal opinion , which may be that all coloured people should — um — be expelled from the country , and decide what is in the best interests of the country as a whole , given that there is a large — er — ethnic problem . |
| 17 | It may be that greater financial resources require to be made available in order to increase public awareness of the National Library and its functions by increased advertising and other publicity means . |
| 18 | It may be that such historical exemplars , rather like foreign comparisons , are largely used to legitimate a particular contemporary point of view , rather than constituting a real and unbroken tradition . |
| 19 | ‘ It may be that many employed people preserve themselves from anxiety and insight into their real selves by contemplating themselves at work ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 21 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 22 | The view is almost certain to be that these tax-free boats should not remain in EC waters unless VAT is paid . |
| 23 | It may prompt further , more wide-ranging research , providing ideas to be followed up later , or it may be that some broad generalization is brought to life by a case-study . |
| 24 | For example , it may be that some legal point has arisen and the Council has a duty to provide legal advice if required . |
| 25 | Much of their repertory is being recorded for the first time ( or very nearly so ) , and it may be that some current recordings will sound exploratory , even tentative , to future generations who will have the privilege to take things further . |
| 26 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 27 | It may be that some young children will achieve a stage where they are ready to compare more than two sets to see which has ‘ most ’ or ‘ least ’ , but incidental experience of this kind is less frequent . |
| 28 | It may be that some wavering ex-Tory voters , worried by the imminent prospect of a Labour government , have responded to the Tory Party 's warnings that a vote for Paddy Ashdown would be ‘ a vote to let Labour in ’ . |
| 29 | It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable . |
| 30 | It could be that some underlying defect opens the way to both candidiasis and chemical sensitivity . |