Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these beginnings Leonard founded the Co-operative Holidays Association which was non-profit making and became popular enough for advertisements to be placed in Christian World in 1893 , offering CHA run rambling holidays in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Combination ovens are the most popular models , allowing conventional cooking , grilling , combi convection which is conventional cooking combined with microwave and the combination of microwave and grilling . |
| 3 | This is a very safe car , but it is also a car which is great fun to drive . |
| 4 | Ezekiel states that the unit for his visionary temple was ‘ the long cubit which was one cubit and a hand 's breadth , ’ and moreover that the overall dimensions of the temple were 100 cubits square . |
| 5 | Zips : a double zip which is smooth running with an inner draught baffle . |
| 6 | The crystal will only let through light which is polarised perpendicular to a certain axis , called the crystal 's optical axis . |
| 7 | Once more the secret is to learn-by-doing , to make the TL part of that do-it-yourself mirror practice which is daily routine . |
| 8 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 9 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 10 | marketing director for Prontaprint , sets out a few simple guidelines to help anyone in the hotel industry who is commissioning design and print . |
| 11 | I recently put some of these questions to Joanna Turner , who 's a psychologist who 's special interest is the development of young children . |
| 12 | St Jovite , Europe 's leading colt who is 6–4 favourite for the Arc , runs in the Champion Stakes at Leopardtown today . |
| 13 | I said I know it 's an inverse , well he said if you know it 's an inverse you 're half way there |
| 14 | Isaiah Berlin has pointed to the uncertainty in Marx 's attitude to this ‘ the most central of all the concepts of his system ’ and to his failure to reconcile the two views he expresses : the one , that in unalienated labour there is perfect freedom for the fullest realisation of human potential and happiness ; the other , that ‘ the need for this minimum of toil is an inescapable fact of physical nature which it is mere Utopianism to hope to conjure away ’ . |
| 15 | We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines . |
| 16 | There was a pond by us , belonging to the people that we were with , and they let us bring some , and we popped them in , and erm on the far bank of the pond there are always lovely dragonflies , and on the other side there 's some marsh orchids which , I did n't let the excavator erm scoop away that bank and each year there are marsh orchids . |
| 17 | On either side there was open parkland grazed by a herd of red deer — or , now that it was December and the males were apart , two herds . |
| 18 | Within the ruling National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition there was growing criticism of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , and of her inner Cabinet of advisors headed by Lacayo , on the grounds that she had made an " illegitimate and immoral marriage " with the FSLN . |
| 19 | At the front of the rib transfer carriage there are some metal prongs . |
| 20 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 21 | A N'pani of Alexei 's household had designed the garden , and as a result there was more art than agriculture to its appearance . |
| 22 | When eventually landed and sold at auction there was widespread interest in this novelty , as well as sufficient demand from fishmongers and pastry-cooks for Leftwich apparently to realize a considerable profit . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the nineteenth-century there was general unrest in Italy , a situation brought about by a number of oddly conflicting factors . |
| 24 | During the programme there is considerable emphasis on personal communication skills and assertiveness training encouraging participants to develop their self confidence which is vital in dealing with customers , businesses , financial organisations and employees . |
| 25 | With this in mind there is distinct reluctance about the direction of Working Paper 7 since it effectively takes no cognisance of either tradition or authority . |
| 26 | Once a customer has participated in a demonstration there is less likelihood of ‘ customer remorse ’ ( i.e. the doubt that value for money is not good value after all ) . |
| 27 | On this terrace there was civilised talk , projects for expeditions , a kind of daily life of the mind for which Alexander , in this not unlike Frederica , had longed in a youth unprovided with games of a serious kind . |
| 28 | ‘ If you want a sandwich there 's some margarine and foul cheese in the cupboard and some not very fresh bread in the bin . ’ |
| 29 | My mother also had it and when I had previously attempted to diet and had successfully lost weight there was little improvement , if any , to the appearance of my ugly dimpled thighs , that is until I went on my low fat diet . |
| 30 | He realised that without western investment there was little chance of turning the economy around . |