Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 2 | The loudspeakers are two-way design using 25mm titanium dome tweeters with 160mm graphite-reinforced polypropylene bass/midrange units . |
| 3 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 4 | But the main culprits , he says , are private collectors prepared to pay extraordinary prices for rare specimens , and nurseries who buy more common types in huge quantities , most of which die after flowering . |
| 5 | Regarding the environment , there are impractical proposals emanating via Brussels , designed merely to placate noisy pressure groups . |
| 6 | But aside from this there are ample remedies to ensure that the Director 's powers are not abused , either at long range through the medium of judicial review , or in a more peremptory manner through the power of the trial judge to ensure that the conduct of the trial is fair . |
| 7 | Also when the assignments from the different modules are combined words having with low LPF will be demoted anyway . |
| 8 | But John-William had bought so much land at Far Flatley from Colonel Covington-Pym , a whole bank of his river and several fields beyond that there would have been ample room to build Gemma and Tristan a dear little nest . |
| 9 | The series of arrays to the right are present-day arrays produced by variable increases in μ and ( 232 Th/ 238 U ) at 130Myr . |
| 10 | If they are right profits increase . |
| 11 | Probably the first thing that strikes you is the layout of the screen — there are dotted lines indicating the text 's margins , and as you type your purple prose , you notice that every space is marked by a little spot . |
| 12 | The latter two clones are homologous structures derived from human and bovine sources , respectively , and their deduced sequences are 92% identical . |
| 13 | Labour members have been at the forefront in demanding that ethnic communities be free to keep their traditions and cultures yet here we are Labour members trying to prevent countrymen pursuing traditional country sports that have been followed by our forefathers for centuries . |
| 14 | The ordinary expectation is that the tenant will be entitled to occupy all that space between the floor of his demise and the underside of the floor above , unless there are cogent reasons to assume otherwise ( Graystone Property Investments Ltd v Margulies ( 1983 ) 269 EG 538 ) . |
| 15 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 16 | Buffer stocks are reserve stocks held for emergency shortages . |
| 17 | At least once a fortnight there have been confusing signals coming from rugby in South Africa , in contrast to the clear-cut campaign that South African cricket conducted on their way to entry in the World Cup in New Zealand and Australia in this southern summer . |
| 18 | There are anti-discrimination laws –n France and Germany , and discriminatory laws in Austria and Finland . |
| 19 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 20 | ( In Aeschylean tragedy ) the characters had been eternal types representing the universal laws implicit in myth . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) might like to remember that in the polyester yarn sector , which is not covered by the question , there are anti-dumping suits going on , so we are pursuing the cases of which we are aware . |
| 22 | Most are half-length casts made from a mould taken before 1902 , which were also copied in wood and marble . |
| 23 | In Angola and Mozambique , there are strange creatures called ‘ Marxist-Leninist States ’ when Marx and Lenin had both spent much time denouncing the State as intrinsically oppressive , but the media mean no more by this phrase than radical nationalists . |
| 24 | Viewed objectively , these are strange sounds to offer an attacker . |
| 25 | How are political leaders reacting to participation ? |
| 26 | The fact that coins are monetary objects issued by various authorities is what makes them such a valuable source of information for the historian . |
| 27 | There are specific procedures to adopt in certain circumstances and at certain airfields — You must study these in Air Pilot or Flight Guides . |
| 28 | There are specific difficulties affecting the primary sector such as the reduced ability to release teaching staff , the demands of National Curriculum implementation , a perceived lack of relevance and the priority given to the secondary sector by many companies . |
| 29 | There are specific provisions dealing with Schedule E — the benefits in kind code in TA 1988 Part V and the specific provisions in TA 1988 , s145 and s146 dealing with the user of living accommodation . |
| 30 | There are specific penalties drawn up to punish those who break laws . |