Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour government that died in 1951 had been tolerant of the corporate state , reverent of union power and credulous of collectivism , and its spirit persisted : by the 1970s half and more of those in full-time employment in Britain were employed , directly or indirectly , by the state . |
| 2 | But it is more likely that a physical restraint influenced the swirling liquids — just as bad weather cyclones and hurricanes are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise south of the equator of spinning planet Earth . |
| 3 | For such a task crude approaches to semantic processing are preferable to the detailed analyses found in understanding systems since they are computationally tractable , robust and are not restricted to a small language domain . |
| 4 | He suggests that gradual movements in share prices caused by insider dealing are preferable to the erratic jumps in prices brought about by enforced disclosure . |
| 5 | Destructiveness and self-doubt are preferable to the enfeebled body politic and the parasitic Church . |
| 6 | It is easy to perceive that so long as this group of entrepreneurs is active in the market , and so long as they are alert to the changing prices their own activity brings about , the market process can proceed in an entirely normal fashion . |
| 7 | Decisions still emerge which are redolent of the pre-1964 era , such as those which manipulate the distinction between rights and legitimate expectations . |
| 8 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 9 | Psychology ( another recent coinage , this time by John Stuart Mill ) was still linked with philosophy — A. Bain 's Mental and Moral Science ( 1868 ) still combined it with ethics — but was increasingly given an experimental orientation with W. Wundt ( 1832–1920 ) , who had been assistant to the great Helmholtz . |
| 10 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
| 11 | Half of all the failures are because patients are dissatisfied with the functional results of this operation . |
| 12 | To date , the fuselage , rudder and rear wing are complete with the front wing well underway . |
| 13 | A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token-reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token-reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) . |
| 14 | ( Actually , the Brits are right about the European space effort , but that is not the point . ) |
| 15 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 16 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 17 | Mr Clifford , for anyone who has been asleep through the entire summer , is to jilted mistresses what Zimmer frames are to decrepit old ones . |
| 18 | The inverted repeats of IS1151 are homologous to the corresponding sequences of the IS231 and IS4 insertion elements but diverge from those of IS186 and of IS421 . |
| 19 | The range of this regular pulsation is only 0–02 per cent of the Sun 's radius , but it has been stable over the full 250-year span covered by the various sets of observations . |
| 20 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 21 | In the case of Japanese enterprise groups many of these hierarchical relationships are arranged through complex subcontracts and the extensive use of quasi-democratic work teams using horizontal relationships to substitute for functional arrangements which more typically are hierarchical in the modernist bureaucracy . |
| 22 | A recent study by INSERM , the national institute of health and medical research , revealed that French specialists are under-represented on the editorial boards of medical reviews in relation to the strength of French biomedical research . |
| 23 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
| 24 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
| 25 | TWO British actresses , Elizabeth Hurley and Lysette Anthony , have been short-listed for the leading female role in Gone With The Wind II : Scarlett . |
| 26 | Bloodletting is popular among the doctors and apothecaries , but herbal medicine , witchcraft and spells are rampant in the general population . |
| 27 | ‘ Schnell , bitte ’ Lefevre 's injunction , on the other hand , would have been unnecessary in the French capital , where one and all drove like madmen . |
| 28 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 29 | Indeed , it will be interesting to determine whether atk is involved in any human neoplastic diseases that are specific to the B-cell lineage . |
| 30 | Racism becomes defined in terms of features which are specific to the black ( or Afro-Caribbean ) experience , for example , or to the peculiarities of English history , so that anti-semitism , or the specific articulations of racism which have developed in , say , the Irish or Scottish contexts , or in other European countries , are treated as ‘ special cases ’ , because their inclusion would ‘ deconstruct ’ the ideal type . |