Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 2 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 3 | But direct operating costs are lower since the fees levied by aerodrome owners for landing and parking etc. are generally much more reasonable than in the UK |
| 4 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 5 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 6 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 7 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 8 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 10 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 11 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 12 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 13 | In isolated word recognition only substitution errors of the meet/meat kind are possible since the beginning , ending , and duration of the word are known . |
| 14 | Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen . |
| 15 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 16 | We 've found it best to glue the wheels onto the axles with superglue and wait until they are dry before the pin is added . |
| 17 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 19 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |
| 20 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 21 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 22 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 23 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 24 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 25 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 26 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 27 | But their solicitor says their chances are slim unless the law can be changed . |
| 28 | The waters around the Sullom Voe oil terminal are cleaner than the Forth and many other British estuaries , a conference on environmental monitoring was told last month . |
| 29 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 30 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |