Example sentences of "[adj] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 2 | The Japanese were within eight miles ( 13km ) of the border at this point on 3 March . |
| 3 | Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways . |
| 4 | Where the issue of assessment and examining in the arts becomes problematical is in those instances where the justification can be seen to be overtly influenced by external factors . |
| 5 | But er in the kind of situation where Ian Wright was very very good was in tight situations . |
| 6 | Norrie Morrison , an analyst at the broker Kleinwort Benson , said : ‘ I think it will go a long was to reassuring shareholders about corporate governance … |
| 7 | United were within thirty minutes of possible relegation … then Joey Beachamp made up for all his earlier misses . |
| 8 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 9 | The Radcliffe Infirmary and the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford , the Northampton General and Milton Keynes General are among fifty hospitals which will test out new government proposals for independent hospital management . |
| 10 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 11 | The only sites where some time dependence of the blockages was apparent was for those derivatives with a pendant intercalator ( 2 , 3 , 5 and 6 ; Figures 2 and 3 ) . |
| 12 | While the Muslims were after captives , the Spanish were after tribute-paying subjects and converts . |
| 13 | On the other hand , what older people have in common is in some ways more striking than the class differences between them . |
| 14 | Human language is unique to humans , and although some of the distinctive features of human speech , such as the mimicking of sounds , may be observed in other species , the resemblance between , for instance , the trained gesturing of a chimpanzee and communication via sign language among the human deaf is in some senses no greater than the resemblance between the speech of a parrot and that of its owner . |
| 15 | He says where Oxford is strong is in developing treatments and I think Oxford will get recognitiom for that sort of work . |
| 16 | One of the ways in which the Council is trying to avoid duplication and to make course and unit development more efficient is by encouraging centres with similar proposals to work together as consortia . |
| 17 | This was not to say that organized and structured prayers for the dead had ceased , for the Roman Rite included plenary intercessions for the living and the dead at every mass ; the annual mass for the departed was on All Souls ' Day , a standard event in the Church 's calendar , set apart for the benefit of souls in purgatory . |