Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This system will be used in deciding on future allocations of the pool and the DES has already indicated that it would expect NAB to give advice about appropriate courses and rationalization , particularly concerning those which are expensive , those which are so specialist in nature that control of student numbers is required , and those where both university and public sector provision might be unnecessary or where rationalization is desirable for other reasons .
2 Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’
3 The general justification for having a system of punishment must therefore be forward-looking and primarily reductivist : based on the claim that punishment does something to reduce the incidence of crime , and thereby prevents the diminution of some other people 's positive freedom .
4 Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that .
5 Down bags are usually more expensive than synthetic models but the weight to warmth ratio tends to be better and down bag can be packed very small .
6 Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ?
7 With football it SHOULD be more than just money .
8 Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs .
9 If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement .
10 When quoting fees , which increasingly will be more than just time based , the requirement for them to be paid at the completion meeting , like other advisers and financiers , should be stipulated .
11 Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children .
12 Terminating a finite line of length I with this characteristic impedance forces But from equations ( 9.78 ) , ( 9.79 ) and ( 9.80 ) To satisfy equations ( 9.83 ) , ( 9.84 ) and ( 9.85 ) simultaneously , the current must be zero and so equation ( 9.82 ) applies again .
13 all numbers must be essential and not garnish
14 USAAF red-tape would be insurmountable but then providence provided the solution when Tommie had the opportunity of liberating one by ‘ midnight requisition ’ from a damaged P-38 .
15 Given the economic significance of such groups , it may be surprising that neither Parliament nor the courts have yet got to grips with the problems they present .
16 Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty .
17 On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court .
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