Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how different and progressive are these NGO-managed health centres ? |
| 2 | ‘ The English are all old women and reputations frighten them , ’ said Rokovssky . |
| 3 | ‘ You British are such clever losers , ’ Mercy said . |
| 4 | But then , ’ Louis flashed another glossy smile as he delivered the final stab , ‘ the British are such good losers . |
| 5 | No formal qualifications are required for enrolment and young or old are all potential candidates ; all that is needed is a desire to learn . |
| 6 | So popular were these annotated flower-pieces , engraved by Henry Fletcher [ q.v. ] , that they were frequently copied at the time , and later reprints kept them in circulation . |
| 7 | He found himself considering how different were these two sisters , Agnes vehement , voluble , exclamatory ; Mariot quiet , with a sort of serenity to her , but warm somehow he felt — where the other might be hot . |
| 8 | What is clear is that mental life does not cease during NREM sleep , and REM sleep is not a necessary condition for dreaming . |
| 9 | However what does seem clear is that non-traditional students are capable of performing at least as well and in some cases better than traditionally qualified students throughout British higher education . |
| 10 | What is clear is that public policies that come from outside and are imposed on inner-city populations are often based on prejudice and ignorance . |
| 11 | But what is also clear is that ideal figures such as Artegall are also susceptible to being undone , particularly by feminine guile . |
| 12 | He was aping them to some extent , but what was different was that touching quality . ’ |
| 13 | ( 6 ) what was interesting was that little Richard came home from his Toronto school with his Newfie jokes the content of which the substantive content was identical to Irish jokes which my son comes home with from Edinburgh schools |
| 14 | The following are all possible orders : |
| 15 | The following are several interesting demonstrations and experiments to try out on your own gliders , or to show to students . |
| 16 | Mere are many more nights when you will attend the Court of the Soul Eaters and render us homage . ’ |
| 17 | And the sceptical questions which Kripke takes as central are all external questions of this sort . |
| 18 | How serious are these musical ambitions ? |
| 19 | How real are many so-called management posts in schools , e.g. deputy heads in primary schools and middle managers in secondary schools ? |
| 20 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 21 | Now , as the bloke said there , the only way you can do that with people coming in from the outside is that British Gas have got to keep pushing their prices up to make it worthwhile for somebody else to come in . |
| 22 | So obvious are these vertical shafts and so compelling an attraction that it is usual on a fine day to find a line of cars parked along the roadside and people of all ages timidly visiting each one to peer into the depths . |
| 23 | At the end of the afternoon , before we left the wood , and with a solemnity and sincerity , a complete dedication of herself that I can not describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery … she said , ‘ Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you . ’ ’ |
| 24 | HOW FREQUENT ARE THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEMENTING CONDITIONS ? |
| 25 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 26 | How effective is this constitutional structure of the company in ensuring that directors do not use their powers arbitrarily ? |
| 27 | The point , though , which takes the whole affair into the realms of the ludicrous is that other members of the England party , such as Boycott and Bairstow , had also played and coached in South Africa but no objection was made to them . |
| 28 | Something which is particularly curious is that increased government expenditure has not produced the egalitarian society which was intended . |
| 29 | The reason they are more powerful is that economic liberalism did , indeed , help cause the tumult of 1989 , by inspiring a dangerous mix — an overheated economy , rampant corruption and rejection of the party . |
| 30 | Historians such as Richard Smith and David Thomson , however , have shown how enduring and old-fashioned are many twentieth-century patterns of thought and action — such as retirement from the work-force in old age , and the provision of financial and other services for elderly people by the community rather than by kin . |