Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [adj] [noun] " 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 | In the written language the reader is left to make up his mind which are important words , helped to a greater or lesser degree by the style of the author , by italicisation , spacing , punctuation and so on . |
| 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 | It is less easy to see its immediate relevance to those in social work practice who are managing services or directly working with older people . |
| 12 | I recently put some of these questions to Joanna Turner , who 's a psychologist who 's special interest is the development of young children . |
| 13 | Here , imagine the old Bill thinking we was old brasses ! ’ |
| 14 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | The kind of situation which we find in most of West Africa , where side by side there are patrilineal peoples and matrilineal with identical technological achievements , occurs again and again in many other parts of the world . |
| 17 | On the civilian side there are other interests — such as the state research body ( CNRS ) , the telecommunications operator ( France Télécom ) , and the broadcast transmission company ( TDF ) — in addition to CNES — which want to protect their part of the space turf . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During the spring there were renewed reports of increasing tension in some areas . |
| 21 | At some of the elections in the spring there were anti-Whig demonstrations , such as at Newcastle , where crowds burnt the Bill of Exclusion and Shaftesbury 's Association . |
| 22 | The country will draw its own conclusion that under a Labour Administration there are great inefficiencies , high spending and high taxation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the nineteenth-century there was general unrest in Italy , a situation brought about by a number of oddly conflicting factors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | During the time of the programme there were marked variations in deprivation and revitalisation indicators . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Downing Street has said that the Prime Minister warned President Clinton to make sure the American missile attack on Iraq was ’ limited and proportionate ’ bearing in mind there are British people in jail there . |
| 29 | When systems were being adopted in branches of physical geography there were similar developments in other earth sciences . |
| 30 | 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 . |