Example sentences of "[noun] be [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duties are specific to each profession or kind of work , whereas wishes are in general a reflection in the working context of the kinds of personal values that people hold . |
| 2 | Now we know why Labour policies are in such a mess . |
| 3 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 4 | Europe is here , English is the language of Europe , the influences are from all the other countries . |
| 5 | Miller and Swift 's Handbook is an extremely influential text ; it and similar books are on all the best shelves nowadays . |
| 6 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |
| 7 | Some cars were in such a bad state of repair that standing passengers were banned on them . |
| 8 | The courts have found breaches of this covenant in situations where homes were in such a poor condition when let that they represented a serious danger to health or safety . |
| 9 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is in such a bad way that only the determination of the French state keeps it alive , and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is not much healthier . |
| 10 | The script is of such a high standard . |
| 11 | Nigel says the support of the fans is worth half a second a lap and he believes that people power helps him to win |
| 12 | Skip outside Mo 's with all the burnt stuff in it . |
| 13 | Wind is in such a big way and if he goes to the planning appeal and one thing or something , it 'll skin this bloody , it 'll , it 'll skin this bloody town |
| 14 | of which Orwell had derisively remarked in ‘ Inside the Whale ’ ( 1940 ) that it could only have been written by an innocent for whom murder is at most a word . |
| 15 | The man 's mind is in such a state that it might unhinge him completely . |
| 16 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 17 | Our building industry is in such a bad state that we will have no trained workers to build the stadiums and villages by then . |
| 18 | Dragons of Flame is at best a weak beat-'em up , and could never cut the mustard as a bona fide roleplayer . |
| 19 | The molten rock is within half a mile of the gates of Zafferana Etnea , a town of 7,000 people . |
| 20 | I think that without going into a lengthy treatise , I would have to argue that middle range theory springing out of empirical data is in general the best approach but you will see all the qualifications and nuances involved in such a view . |
| 21 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 22 | The spectacle of the café-concert was above all the home of disorder , and particularly of the disruption of the orderly bourgeois habitus . |
| 23 | SOCCER player Steve Partridge was in such a hurry that he reversed his car over the family dog … and killed it . |
| 24 | If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . |
| 25 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 26 | By then the conventional restraints of courtesy were felt to have had their day , and outlived it : the New Critic was above all a rebel , even a terrorist . |
| 27 | Do you know my mouth was like that the other week . |
| 28 | THE REASON EMF are in such a subdued and reflective mood is that they are depressed . |
| 29 | The effects of ( b ) arise when barriers are of such a high level as to prevent any entry into the market . |
| 30 | just got really unsafe unless the two sites are like half a mile , well at least half a mile if not , but I |