Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 All this could be different if only the British people were allowed a real stake in the EC .
2 A particularly difficult problem is the passage of fragments down the cystic duct ; provided these fragments pass into the common bile duct endoscopic sphincterotomy successfully manages the situation ( patient VII , XI ) , but if the stone remains in the cystic duct removal can be impossible as even the smallest scope or basket will not dislodge the stone ( patient XII ) .
3 I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different .
4 I 'm sure if ever the occasion arises when I want advice on insurance , you 're the first person I 'll come to . ’
5 The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for .
6 On analogy with subject access in social services and housing one might expect the governors to seek the consent of the person compiling the report and for such consent normally to be forthcoming since otherwise the record may clearly be incomplete .
7 The other on population and housing , erm has been delayed in being sent to the printers , in order that we might incorporate some of the erm information from last year er so that the document would be thereby erm even more er immediately useful and in consequence it wo n't be available until either the end of the month or the very beginning of February , but er progress is on a is in hand on that er that 's all I wanted to say to you .
8 It is hoped that courses tailored to particular IT topics will be available as both a control and a development provision .
9 Procedures laid down by the International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Limited ( " the Stock Exchange " ) may be relevant if either the vendor or purchaser are quoted companies or are subsidiaries of quoted companies .
10 Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake .
11 The conditions which must be satisfied before effectively the non-resident trustees are deemed to be resident in the United Kingdom are the settlor , or where there is more than one any one of them , is at any relevant time : 1 .
12 Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) .
13 They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked .
14 Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism .
15 The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements .
16 This is acceptable when only the family are around , but when we have guests , embarrassing situations can arise .
17 Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ .
18 In an isotropic space all geodesic surfaces at a single point have by definition identical Gaussian curvature : in a space that is homogeneous as well the curvature is the same everywhere .
19 The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data .
20 Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle .
21 The publicity given to the conference is important because both the propaganda department and the People 's Daily , the official voice of the Communist Party , have long preferred stability and ideological orthodoxy to the no-holds-barred economic reforms favoured by Deng .
22 The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors .
23 The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors .
24 It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded .
25 Setting clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour is essential as once the child realizes that the parents are being consistent and firm in their reactions the problem behaviour will disappear .
26 For all normal record updating a loss of this magnitude can be expected , but it would not apply if the processing involved is trivial because then the records can be processed at reading — that is , rotation — speeds .
27 Dissection classes with small groups of students are excellent since even the squeamish can take part as onlookers , whilst a fellow student performs the dissection .
28 The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) .
29 The time was approximately 12.30am and all was quiet when suddenly the door handle rattled .
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