Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 2 | TEEN sensation Take That are 8–1 favourites to be number one in the Christmas pop charts . |
| 3 | The censuses of 1911 , 1951 , 1961 , and 1971 are basic sources on social class patterns of fertility . |
| 4 | Being smart and persistent are vital qualities in pursuing change , because whatever you want , you can be sure that someone , usually someone higher up the tree , is going to be against it , and is going to try to force their solution on you instead . |
| 5 | Enclosed are two photographs of items found in Richmond , Yorkshire . |
| 6 | The finest are two views of Rome along the Tiber by Bellotto dating from the 1740s ( est. $1–1.5 million each ; £666,000–1,000,000 ) , a river landscape by Francesco Guardi ( est. $150,000–200,000 ; £100,000–133,000 ) and a view of a fortified manor house on a river by Jan van Goyen ( est. $40,000–60,000 ; £26,600–40,000 ) . |
| 7 | What is not clearly stated in the text but is easily deduced from the tables is that most of the proposed ‘ preventive ’ measures in these 39 cases/ 1000 are not really preventive at all but , rather , treatments carried out after birth : 15.7 are neonatal surgical procedures for congenital heart defects , pyloric stenosis , and inguinal hernia ; 15.4 are standard orthopaedic procedures for congenital hip dislocation and club foot ; and 1.8 are postnatal treatments for a variety of other conditions . |
| 8 | To the left of this are various reproductions of work by Chagall , Toulouse-Lautrec , Palmer and one by Holbein whose relevance is further underlined by the monograph on his work on the floor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Away from this are primary outliers of population concentration in the older industrial areas of South Wales , the North-East , and Central Scotland . |
| 11 | Going back further than this are yearly highlights from the years 1980 to 1988 , and major issues of the decade from the ‘ 20 's right through to the ‘ 70's . |
| 12 | Rocks like this are ideal traps for gold |
| 13 | The types of disturbances which could do this are sudden changes in investment , balance of payments crises , changes in the money supply , rapid inflation and the policies designed to curb it , population movements , industrial disputes , or even wars . |
| 14 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 15 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 16 | As a Venetian Ambassador said in 1497 , " The English are great lovers of themselves and of everything belonging to them " … |
| 17 | In societies organised around sexual differentiation ( which means all known societies ) we are led to believe that masculine and feminine are simple categories of the natural world , like plants and animals or lions and tigers : the two classes exist and can be defined . |
| 18 | Some are managing directors of large international operations and others the best " account men " in advertising . |
| 19 | Some are general principles with which it would be impossible to disagree . |
| 20 | Some are near extinction in other parts of the country . |
| 21 | Among the field of 300 are top amateurs from Britain , the Continent , New Zealand and the United States , and the competition for the trophy will be intense . |
| 22 | Chapters 1 and 2 are essential reading for understanding this chapter , and chapters 3 and 6 are also useful background . |
| 23 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
| 24 | But if the French are reluctant investors in Scotland , there are plenty of opportunities in France for the thrusting Scot , as Graham Romaine , British commercial vice-consul in Lyons points out . |
| 25 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 26 | Added to this were attractive displays of children 's work , to celebrate their achievement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Several papers resulted from this work , some being joint publications with N. D. Paton and other collaborators . |
| 29 | There may be other more altruistic motives such as the sponsor being the largest employer in the town and this being one way of expressing community concern . |
| 30 | At every stage , therefore , members of the hierarchy were involved in the process of deposing an anointed king : some were coerced by understandable fear ; others , as events unfolded , reluctantly despaired of a peaceful resolution of the conflict any other way than by deposition ; and a few were eager promoters of Isabella 's plans . |