Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accola will be resplendent in a bright yellow costume , the product of a sponsorship deal with a cheese Accola would love to outshine his friend Tomba on his home soil while the Austrian-born Girardelli , who skis for Luxembourg , has his sights fixed on a record fifth overall world title , having kept clear of the injury problems which bedevilled his preparations last year . |
| 2 | Abolition may be preferable to a slow death but education in London is bound to suffer , especially in the poorer boroughs . |
| 3 | That is , it is probably undesirable for co-operative R&D ventures to include all producers of a competing range of products , and two or more co-operative projects serving the same downstream industry are likely to be preferable to a single , all-inclusive project . |
| 4 | That would be preferable to the ridiculous procedure of considering a station in one Bill and a high-speed link in another . |
| 5 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 6 | A loss might be made on this transaction , but such a loss would be preferable to the total abandonment of one 's savings or wealth , which would in any case have still had a value as bullion . |
| 7 | The use of better measures of ( housing ) deprivation , such as the Census-based ACORN ( A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods ) or PINPOINT schemes would undoubtedly be preferable to the current indicators . |
| 8 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 9 | It may be that in weighing up all relevant factors , extending an existing quarry would be preferable to the wholesale removal of an old tip . |
| 10 | If it is decided that use of a measure of material deprivation is informative and conceptually sound , then simple measures based on easily available and regularly updated measures would be preferable to the opaque and statistically complex derived indices . |
| 11 | This may be preferable to the opposite mistake ( where someone 's understanding is far stronger than his faith ) , but a better way is to develop both faith and understanding together . |
| 12 | It was a desperate plan , with little hope of success , but Caledor and many like him thought a last desperate gamble would be preferable to the slow death the Elf people were enduring . |
| 13 | Earlier induction of labour would obviously be preferable for a 40 year old primigravid woman with a long history of infertility , even after an uncomplicated pregnancy , whereas it may be inappropriate for a 25 year old multiparous woman . |
| 14 | Indeed , as a matter of political necessity at home , it had to assume ( and this had also weighed heavily with Roosevelt ) that a return to the " old power politics system " would be abhorrent to the great mass of Americans . |
| 15 | The product has proved to be stable over the anticipated lifespan of the building and has advantages over alternative methods of roof insulation , namely , energy efficiency , ease of installation and speed of erection . |
| 16 | Such hierarchies tend to be stable with a powerful ‘ alpha ’ animal at the top . |
| 17 | ‘ So if I invited you to my house you would not be upset by the simple food I would serve ? ’ |
| 18 | I echo the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) about the delays that could be inherent in the new system proposed by the Bill . |
| 19 | That this was an ill-advised step is very clear to us , but Eadmer was only pressing a claim which he believed to be inherent in the original jurisdiction of Canterbury . |
| 20 | The main argument of postmodernists who have sympathies with the political left seems to have been that postmodernism can be supportive of a left politics rooted in principles of pluralism and ‘ difference ’ . |
| 21 | Eckmire , anxious to be seen to be supportive of the departing champion , added : ‘ Our sponsorship position has always assumed that Nigel would be driving for Williams next year and we echo the British public 's sentiments . ’ |
| 22 | Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation . |
| 23 | Guns like these could be devastating in the wrong hands . |
| 24 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 25 | Hopefully hopefully the baby 'll be asleep in a few minutes . |
| 26 | Apart from this finding , judgement in determining who is a good leader is bound to be subjective to a certain extent . |
| 27 | It is to be subjective about an objective situation . |
| 28 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 29 | Carrier testing is also practicable in close relatives but — except in communities with a high frequency of particular mutations — carrier testing will not be practicable in the general population , including the unrelated spouses of known carriers , until it is possible cheaply to scan the hydroxylase gene for the many known mutations . |
| 30 | Mr Patten said privatisation of the Property Services Agency , which builds and furnishes Government offices , will not be practicable until the second half of 1992 . |