Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 2 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | She was supposed to be pregnant and perhaps Scotland might still get its heir but would it be a male prince and who would protect him over the coming years ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I still remain to be convinced that either Cantona ( or McAllister for that matter ) can stand up and be counted when the crunch matches come around . |
| 7 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 8 | Peter Reid 's City team — who will be unchanged if neither Niall Quinn nor Keith Curle show reactions to the hamstring problems they defied to play against Leeds — need little motivating , though . |
| 9 | Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ? |
| 10 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 11 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 12 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 13 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For the first time this year , Messrs Cronin and Co will be looking up to their opposite numbers and it will be essential that both blockers and sweepers are doing their job . |
| 19 | This may be difficult if both gatekeepers and policy in the buying company aim to restrict such access . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |