Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary last September , and Dulcie has been keenly involved with Medau for over 36 years , starting with the Post Natal Classes at Days Lane School , Sidcup , taken by Molly Braithwaite and Peggy Secord .
2 The cracks are predominantly concentric with respect to the impact centre , though some are radial .
3 iii ) suppliers may market products or services which are widely consistent with personality traits associated with extra version ( outward going and highly visible behaviour ) and aggression .
4 iv ) suppliers may market products or services which are widely consistent with personality traits associated with introversion ( inward looking and self.sufficient behaviour ) and personal detachment .
5 Panettoni are widely available at Christmas time , often with marzipan paste incorporated into the dough or covered with chocolate .
6 The vouchers for use in parking bays are widely available for sale at newsagents , post offices , shops , garages , hotels and the Tourist Information Centre .
7 Narcotics are widely available in prison , with prison officials illegally selling heroin to inmates , sources say .
8 Wood , steel and aluminium frames are widely available from builder 's merchants and timber yards in a range of traditional standard patterns and sizes , and you can either do the work yourself or call in a local builder to do it for you .
9 Free route maps and leaflets are widely available from tourist information offices , Forestry Commission centres and cycle hire firms throughout the area .
10 Secondly , it is the part of the mother elephant that I am most excited about drawing .
11 Secondly , it is the part of the mother elephant that I am most excited about drawing .
12 Most double bed slip patterns are rather lavish on yarn , so you should allow twice as much yarn for a garment as you would for one of the same size in stocking stitch .
13 The two brothers are rather similar in method — and neither is cast-iron solid in the tackle or as a goal-kicker .
14 By a happy coincidence , those quarries which have proved difficult to separate by stable isotope analysis have very different trace element compositions , and some with very different stable isotopes are rather similar in trace elements .
15 Clearly some sensory input is necessary , but this and the amount of thought required are rather small in comparison with the motor response required .
16 Although we can not be categorical in relation to the cases in this study , other research has indicated that psychiatrists rarely trouble themselves with the social circumstances of individuals referred , and are rather preoccupied with evidence of mental disorder ( Bean , 1980 ) .
17 But all of these are rather conspicuous by day and are difficult to hide in the way that spotlights can be masked by plants .
18 Floatplanes have some handling similarities to tailwheel aircraft and are rather different from tricycle landplanes .
19 Unfortunately , Piaget 's accounts of these studies are rather lacking in frequency data so the extent to which the children psychologized is not clear .
20 They stated that none of the background reports or assessments had been carried out , and stressed that these are fundamentally necessary in order to determine what is in the children 's best interests .
21 Investment trusts are similar to unit trusts in that they allow persons and companies to obtain a share in a diversified portfolio of assets and have a specialist fund manager to control the portfolio , but are fundamentally different from unit trusts in other ways .
22 In this emphasis on personal success and achievement we can see a strong thread of individualism in the physics students ' world-view ; they are keenly aware of competition between individuals both in higher education and in the labour market .
23 Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available .
24 This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica .
25 Arctic flowering plants are mostly capable of cross-fertilization , and make use of both wind and insects in pollination .
26 More than 1 million ha are currently classified as severely saline and are mostly unsuitable for crop production because of either highly saline water in the root zone or the presence of salt crusts on the soil .
27 I should say as well that we are mostly concerned with behaviour here , not academic progress .
28 There are also some general tools for locating reviews retrospectively , but they are mostly American in coverage .
29 By contrast in Java , where the crust is relatively young and thin , the volcanic rocks are mostly intermediate in composition and the large ash sheets indicative of highly explosive eruptions are scarce ( see Chapter 5 ) .
30 ‘ That way , I am rarely disappointed by life . ’
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