Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rooms are spacious and furnished to suit the Victorian features of the house , such as the marble fireplaces in the lounge and drawing room and heavy panelled doors . |
| 2 | The hotel is being immaculately restored to ensure all its public rooms are spacious and decorated to give a generally elegant , relaxed ambience throughout . |
| 3 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 4 | There is often a tendency for pilots to think that , because they are solo and have managed a few soaring flights and their Bronze C , they should be allowed to go cross-country . |
| 5 | He had been depressed and refused to help his wife in the restaurant . |
| 6 | It is advised that women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant should avoid drinking alcohol altogether . |
| 7 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 8 | Today , because the personal computer and laser-printer are mass-produced and work using cheap electronic components , anybody can publish text of almost professional quality for an investment of only $3,000 . |
| 9 | Clutch and gears are slick and smooth confirming its Japanese pedigree and the front disc and rear drum brakes are light and positive . |
| 10 | But at the low interest rate , Oi 3 , bonds become so unattractive ( because their prices are high and expected to fall ) that the speculative demand for money becomes perfectly elastic . |
| 11 | Naturally the best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 12 | The best rates are offered when interest rates are high and expected to rise even further . |
| 13 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 14 | If you are unemployed and have left Salford within the last two years , Careers can mail you copies of vacancy lists . |
| 15 | So lest any misunderstandings arrive that this is some thin end of some wedge , I should also add that the restriction we 're proposing only applies to national committees , does n't apply to any other office anywhere in the union and to reinforce that point the C E C will be recommending support for a general motion underlining the rights of people who are unemployed or retired to hold office throughout the G M B. |
| 16 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 17 | Staff turnover had traditionally been high but has slowed down more recently . |
| 18 | Some people never admit that they are wrong and continue to find new , and often mutually inconsistent , arguments to support their case — as Eddington did in opposing black hole theory . |
| 19 | But if ever there is a chance , send us a sign that you are free and have made a place . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , few of them are interested or want to stick to the dietary disciplines for long . |
| 21 | Societal divisions are such that neighbourhood patrols are dangerous and have to take on the appearance of armed convoys , but it is the style of policing which comes nearest to breaching the divide between the police and the community , so that the RUC is required to be persistent in utilizing it even though there are few obvious signs of success and despite the cost in human life . |
| 22 | However , we believe many Planning Committee members are fearful that voting to refuse will make them vulnerable to unpleasant accusations that they are uncaring of the needs of terminally ill children . |
| 23 | They are bored and start to explore the house . |
| 24 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 25 | Clinics have closed down , essential drugs have n't been bought or distributed , health workers have been unpaid and had to revert to other ways of earning a living . |
| 26 | Hips and elbows must have been X-rayed and have received excellent results , but further more , all dogs must participate in the Swedish mental test . |
| 27 | We are against animal experiments because they are unscientific and have caused great harm to humans and the planet as well as terrible suffering to animals . |
| 28 | The seminar discussions have been wide-ranging and have covered many aspects of way of life , not all of which were directly connected with oil-related activities . |
| 29 | It is a common finding when we are jet-lagged or trying to sleep in the day after night-work . |
| 30 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |