Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore likely that the issues discussed in this section are of theoretical as well as purely methodological importance . |
| 2 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 3 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 4 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 5 | All the parties are in close and fairly intimate contact and there is no point in gratuitously annoying and antagonizing people — especially since the oracles may have made a mistake . |
| 6 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 7 | His query concerns a 2-iron which his local pro reckoned might be worth more than just a few bob . |
| 8 | For instance , Lister ( 1988 ) asks : ‘ what comfort would it be for elderly and severely ill patients to hear of ‘ competitive ’ NHS hospitals with vacant beds in Liverpool or Devon ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the end it was not to be for Donal but hopefully one day they will find a cure . ’ |
| 10 | Equally , during the summer months ( when the Euro Disneyland Theme Park is open until late at night ) the return to your hotel may be between 9 and 10pm . |
| 11 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 12 | More disaggregated spatial data is not yet available though earlier studies ( e.g. Padoa-Schioppa 1987 ) suggest that the range of disparity may well be of similar if not greater orders of magnitude . |
| 13 | Even by 1972 , energy and economic issues displaced environmental issues as more newsworthy , being deemed by the media to be of greater and more immediate public interest ( Parlour , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 15 | The results of the research will be of more than purely academic interest , insofar as the rigorous identification and description of the structure of the arms trade would appear to be a necessary prerequisite for any discussion of multi-lateral restraints . |
| 16 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 17 | Whooping cough may be like this or even asthma . |
| 18 | I 've sent them a big consignment of wine , I 'm in that as well as the grocery , and I 'd love to know how it 's selling . " |
| 19 | I warned a year ago that it would not be until 1992 that substantially better results would be achieved . |
| 20 | All over two , then if you pass , spread them over minus sixteen add thirty four gives me eighteen over two , or if I do minus thirty four I get nine over two , that 'll be plus nine or even minus twenty five |
| 21 | Persons should be aged 18 or over and should : |
| 22 | The resignation followed the introduction of a new Constitution adopted by the National Assembly on March 14 , which stipulated that government members had to be aged 35 or above and have held professional responsibilities for a minimum of seven years . |
| 23 | More than a third of the British — some 14 million — will soon be aged 50 or over . |
| 24 | Notes : All members of this group can be expected to be aged 60 or more and approximately 66 per cent female . |
| 25 | If player II plays , the optimal solution of LPII* , his expected loss will be at most and therefore player I 's expected return will be at most . |
| 26 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 27 | Whether Ferndale Comprehensive has been over enthusiastic or not it does seem that one union at least seems to think that marketing is one of the deadliest of sins ! |
| 28 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
| 29 | ‘ It was only a joke but the school secretary , who had a heart condition , thought they were for real and nearly died , ’ says Betty Weller . |
| 30 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |