Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 2 | Her teacher had been right all those years ago , reflected Busacher . |
| 3 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 4 | Our own experience ( two patients ) and that of Morin et al has been that such acute relapses only occur in patients who have strictures or fistulas . |
| 5 | This policy was not adopted in Scotland , where there are few such psychiatric units . |
| 6 | There are few more pathetic sights than aggrieved bowlers staring down at the popping-crease after being no-balled , craning neck insinuating that the umpire was in error . |
| 7 | There are few more cost-effective ways to invest relatively small sums of money than reinstating the support funding for tourism . |
| 8 | It is certainly true that Rowell had very little success with the South West divisional side , but then — with the possible exception of becoming Welsh coach — there are few more thankless tasks than trying to create a cohesive representative side amid the passionate parochialism that provides West Country rugby with its strengths and its limitations . |
| 9 | There are few more important questions than that for an eagle to answer . |
| 10 | ‘ THERE are few more important jobs , ’ said Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Education , on Election Call last Friday , talking about teachers . |
| 11 | There are few more obvious ways of troubling the scorers and confounding the commentators . |
| 12 | There are few more barren places on earth than the plains surrounding a volcano in the aftermath of its eruption . |
| 13 | There are few more poignant sights than a group of people who are desperate to walk up a mountain , standing with their hands in pockets and feet in slippers , gazing out the window at weather that looks like television interference . |
| 14 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 15 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 16 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 17 | I suppose you 've been charming that splendid lady Mrs Reynolds . ’ |
| 18 | There are 30 such double bonds in the fullerene football but binding of a bis diethylphosphineplatinum group ( because of their steric bulk ) to one of these protects its four nearest neighbours from further attack . |
| 19 | Although there are moves to define the requirements for a next generation user environment , UEC II ( UX No 391 ) , which will be a ‘ highly evolved ’ version of Motif , that wo n't be around until 1995 , and there are some more immediate issues that need to be addressed , according to IXI . |
| 20 | But before this could be contemplated , there are some more serious problems with the positivist stance that would have to be resolved — again relating to its neglect of criminal justice processes . |
| 21 | Apart from uncertainties which arise from the language in which it is couched , there are some more general concerns arising from the rule . |
| 22 | Here are some more cross-breeding experiments to do . |
| 23 | That should favour Mr Symington because there are 90,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats . |
| 24 | The party has tried to break the mould before , but delegates are convinced that this time its different . |
| 25 | How much you pay for our Current Account service depends on the way you run your account , but the standard item costs and fixed charge shown below are payable each charging quarter . |
| 26 | Then more quietly , she said , ‘ They 're all such little liars , the tales they spin about what they have in the house . |
| 27 | They 're all these chemical things now — I dare say they 're just as good really . |
| 28 | If we 're vegetarian another possible act of penance would be to abstain from alcohol or cigarettes . |
| 29 | Er er er as far as they 're concerned any extra work is just an enhancement of the rate to the bypass erm rate , point six two percent . |
| 30 | Oh I know the ce oh the ceiling rose , they 're horrible those old things , are n't they ? |