Example sentences of "[vb base] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitation is easy to spot : the unspoken assumption that the industrial and economic wealth of his country belongs by right to the whites ; and that any discomforts the blacks suffer are an unfortunate legacy of history . |
| 2 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ If by that you mean are the white ones dirty , then yes . ’ |
| 4 | The main problems they pose are the excessive patronage they confer on the politicians and officials who establish them and make appointments to them , ‘ their frustration of the implementation of public policies , their financial irresponsibility and their erosion of democratic accountability and control ’ ( Jones , 1982a , p. 924 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The sounds I program are the natural Stick sounds with synthesised coloration for atmospherics . |
| 6 | The ones you want are the good long ones are n't they ? |
| 7 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 8 | PLUG ARE a cheerful four-piece with a singer who likes to think he looks like Morrissey but actually bears a closer resemblance to a slightly wobbly Eddie Tenpole Tudor , and reveals an easy to spot Cud fixation . |
| 9 | Only as these islands coalesce is the full Madelung energy involved , producing the observed increase in adsorption heat with coverage . |
| 10 | The appointment of McDonald , who was still an interviewer with Trinidadian TV when News At Ten first went on the air , fits in with what sources suggest is a new reliance on star names . |
| 11 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 12 | Does em does empirical evidence , well I think you probably say generally that there is some economic factors and there is some non economic factors , which of those two does er empirical evidence suggest is the main driving force behind migration ? |
| 13 | Children are swept along by waves of enthusiasm and some teachers are so expert at whipping up energy and commitment that they can even persuade children that a tables test is a great reward for good behaviour . |
| 14 | Taking away the protection which the Wages Councils provide is the latest step in the bullion offensive against the poorest in society . |
| 15 | All I recollect is a grey , sombre sky and the dark Seine rushing under the bridges ; tall , sharp-gabled houses which sprang up from the cobbles and leaned crazily together , storey thrust out above storey ; the narrow , winding streets of the Latin Quarter ; the pell-mell of ascending gables and tinted roof tiles , the gables of their lower storeys sculpted into fantastic shapes of warriors or exotic animals . |
| 16 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 17 | Something that a lot of other open systems vendors propose is a big bang approach to evolving to that type of architecture away from proprietary systems . |
| 18 | Oh , yes , that 's the one , that 's what I 'm looking for , bet you have n't got , well he want 's a large . |
| 19 | some she want 's a some vegetable samosas , thank you very much . |
| 20 | Bassett said : ‘ What directors and fans sometimes forget is the good times a manager has given them . ’ |
| 21 | He said : ‘ What directors and fans sometimes forget is the good times a manager has given them . ’ |
| 22 | Church ‘ D' is a black church , now seventeen years old . |
| 23 | If you are working on an angled drawing board , the best kit we supply is a 150-4-PK dual action airbrush , which comes in a wooden box and has all three head and needle assemblies : fine , medium , and heavy-duty , to suit all the media you are likely to use . |
| 24 | Fans of the great British sausage have formed an appreciation society to protect what they say is a healthy and nutritious food . |
| 25 | The group make use of Farnham 's musical facilities , including the Warehouse , which they say is a great place to rehearse in . |
| 26 | About 5,000 pink flamingos in western Kenya have died of a bacterial infection in recent weeks , which veterinarians say is a natural reaction to over-population . |
| 27 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
| 28 | You 're thinking more than doing and er wit you know sarcasm they say is the lowest form of wit but actually sarcasm probably is wit . |
| 29 | climbing they say is the fastest growing sport … indoor mountaineering is certainly packing them in … there 's plans to build a centre like this in Cirencester … |
| 30 | SMARTDRiVe is the free disk cacheing program provided with DOS 5 ( the version you should be using now ) . |