Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep moist soils are preferable and any site . |
| 2 | Also , the fact that police officers will know that female crime rates are lower than male crime rates will further incline them to the view that women are not by nature ‘ criminal types ’ . |
| 3 | Most rates are lower than last year 's levels . |
| 4 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 5 | This can have advantages where credit restrictions on local banks make foreign currency borrowing the only source of finance available or if interest rates are lower than domestic currency loan rates . |
| 6 | It was already known that there are lower and upper cut-off points , which we have called the blackout and whiteout points . |
| 7 | There 's been loud and strong protest over the past few weeks as parents have campaigned against the clinic claiming it presented a threat to their children 's well-being . |
| 8 | But his mature convictions were the effect of a long organised retreat from the simple dualities of youthful Marxism — capitalism against socialism , bourgeois against prole — and the first of his books ever to see print , Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ) , had been emphatic that Marxist analysis fails to correspond to observed experience , the gradations insisted on by the kitchen-staff of a Parisian hotel or the destitute of an English doss-house being there because the poor want them to be there and not by compulsion . |
| 9 | With British industry burdened by record debt and Britain 's trade deficit at its highest for a year , will the Prime Minister explain why tax cuts which will suck in more imports are right while public investment in the kind of things that Britain needs for the future is wrong ? |
| 10 | ‘ The ingredients are Labour and Liberal unconcern about increasing levels of economic migrants and asylum seekers entering Britain , coupled with the introduction of a political system which would unleash extremists who fed upon public concern about this issue , ’ said Mr Baker . |
| 11 | Are extra-marital and casual sex increasing ? |
| 12 | The major factors behind the change that has taken place are economic and industrial development . |
| 13 | The tours are self-guided and regular training sessions are held at Bovingdon Hall to familiarise teachers with the trails and farming practices . |
| 14 | And surely , oh surely , we shall be able to go after Nuadu , and surely the giants are friendly and last night was only a bad dream . |
| 15 | Applications for these awards are unnecessary as each hotel is automatically considered at the time of the annual inspection . |
| 16 | Since in this paper I am concerned to explore the intergroup relations ‘ in the mind ’ between workers and managers , I propose to follow Miller 's usage of the term which is : ‘ … relations between two systems are political when one system is consciously or unconsciously attempting , or is perceived as attempting , to impose its goals and values on another ’ ( Miller , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 18 | Without those benefits the profits would have been lower than last year , although the core transport and distribution divisions did much better . |
| 19 | Each farm is small enough to be managed by a family which means labour costs are low and great attention is paid to quality and presentation . |
| 20 | Very soft graphite pencils which are rich and velvety combine happily with Neocolor and so does watercolour — not just for making resist textures . |
| 21 | Since the 1940s military expenditure has been much higher , unemployment has been low and economic growth and profitability has been high . |
| 22 | There are indoor and outdoor tennis courts , as well as a large and very well equipped fitness centre with every kind of apparatus imaginable . |
| 23 | In the resort itself are indoor and outdoor swimming pools . |
| 24 | Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs ' squashy traces , Grounds of rough fallows with thistle and weed , Flats and low vallies of kingcups and daisies , Sweetest of subjects are ye for my reed : Ye commons left free in the rude rags of nature , Ye brown heaths beclothed in furze as ye be , My wild eye in rapture adores every feature , Ye are dear as this heart in my bosom to me . |
| 25 | Infants and young children of mothers whose husbands are professional and white collar were found in the WFS inquiries to enjoy a survival advantage over those counterparts whose fathers have lower status occupations . |
| 26 | All of these mechanisms — the inflammatory process , the process of tissue repair , the process of immunity and the phenomenon of shock — are anatomical and physiological body defence mechanisms against injury and disease which are protective , and are an attempt to prevent further damage . |
| 27 | And I am sorry that this day has come . |
| 28 | I repeat that I am sorry if any distress has been caused . |
| 29 | A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally . |
| 30 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |