Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 2 | If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people . |
| 3 | Here is an example of a political decision being taken at the highest level by an elected government which nevertheless felt itself to be more or less powerless in relation to a large transnational company . |
| 4 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 5 | In the rabbit population , on the other hand , the balance of economic advantage is shifted towards those individual rabbits that are big spenders on equipment for running fast . |
| 6 | First , their ‘ basic ’ economic function is supplemented by a major role in economic restructuring . |
| 7 | Probably , in terms of company drive , this product was the sacred cow of all sacred cows and yet the economic tide was flowing against us . |
| 8 | In England , the complete technique was applied to serious music ; in September 1935 Elisabeth Schumann recorded both parts of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck 's Hansel und Gretel . |
| 9 | In Eastern Europe , meanwhile , new nation states are being formed out of the debris of the old system and nationalist feeling is exceptionally strong , and it is an open question whether some of these states will in due course be incorporated in an enlarged EC or perhaps in some still wider , but as yet only vaguely conceived , ‘ European homeland ’ ( to use Gorbachev 's expression ) . |
| 10 | ‘ A file will in due course be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 11 | Nor , in an atmosphere of reluctance , can the initiator be confident that a participator 's initial dependence on other people 's ideas and energy will in due course be turned into well-informed independence . |
| 12 | The genetically modified saplings will in due course be infected with the virus to test their resistance . |
| 13 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 14 | When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow . |
| 15 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 16 | However , total regional support was downgraded as both levels of support and areas granted regional status were reduced . |
| 17 | These may shape the activities of unions , so that their political manoeuvring is based on clientelist relationships , rather than class relationships . |
| 18 | In RENFE , by contrast , political manoeuvring was internalized within the organization , so that the management process itself was politicized . |
| 19 | Shevardnadze visited the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi on Nov. 11 and assured local reporters that the new Georgian parliament was committed to ending the conflict as soon as possible . |
| 20 | IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships . |
| 21 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |
| 22 | In that country for many years organisation at the social , cultural and political level was founded upon a system of ideological blocs . |
| 23 | Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey . |
| 24 | The Social Affairs and Labour Ministry was split into a new Labour Ministry under former Minister of State for Defence , Brig. |
| 25 | A unit-linked endowment is linked to units in a fund of stocks and shares . |
| 26 | The single-storey building is designed in an oval with a church in the centre , rather like a traditional African village where the chief 's house would be in the middle . |
| 27 | The parsing algorithm is based on chart-parsing techniques and works breadth-first across the input . |
| 28 | In an experiment carried out by Anthony Arak , a zoologist from Cambridge University , the large calling male was removed from ten groups ; in eight cases the other group members dispersed . |
| 29 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 30 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle , it is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |