Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , timbers dated by radio-carbon are carbonised oak and a date obtained relates to the age of the rings of the surviving tree and not the felling date . |
| 2 | Whereas in the 1970s , modularity was seen variously as a means of overcoming artificial subject boundaries , promoting student choice and clarifying course objectives , the main rationales now are administrative rationalization and the promotion of credit transfer between courses , institutions , modes of study , and between the educational system and ‘ corporate classrooms ’ , to use Eurich 's ( 1985 ) phrase , as exemplified by the CNAA Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme . |
| 3 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 4 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 5 | Oswald had n't been nearer Tibet than the end of Folkestone pier ! |
| 6 | It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale . |
| 7 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 8 | The findings , contained in an exclusive ICM Research poll for The Scotsman , are further evidence that the country 's current moral panic is not a media invention but a widespread social concern . |
| 9 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 10 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 11 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 12 | A single gene may be responsible in that although the identical twin concordance rate is only 40–50 per cent , there has been some suggestion that the other twin often has some schizoid features of personality which may be the same disease in a much milder form ( Emery , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | But there has been some argument that the criteria should be increased for boys to the age of 8 years ( Verhulst et al . |
| 14 | Also on board are another ex-gunman and an army deserter and , when the trawler breaks down , a plan is forged to rob a bank . |
| 15 | With the last three murders it seems to have been pure chance that a suitable victim did , in fact , come along . ’ |
| 16 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 17 | These expectations are fulfilled when we find that the chief things for which Moore claims great intrinsic value are personal friendship and the appreciation of beautiful objects . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 19 | There has been much speculation since the introduction of s.62 of the FSA 1986 concerning the potency of the provision as a statutory civil law remedy for insider dealing . |
| 20 | There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law . |
| 21 | It must , it must have been absolute arm and a leg . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're more trouble than the Wogs . |
| 23 | But we 're given information that the cost is not very high . |
| 24 | You 're going to you 're flying south for the winter ? |
| 25 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 26 | The vast majority of vehicle alternators are three phase and the ‘ W ’ terminal is connected to one phase . |
| 27 | Their liabilities are long term and the probabilities of both unforeseen shortfalls of income and unanticipated paying out of benefits are low . |
| 28 | The sense of being self reliant , of playing a role within the family , or owning one 's own property , of paying one 's way , are all part or the spiritual ballast which maintains responsible citizenship … |
| 29 | They are good company and no trouble . |
| 30 | The biggest event in recent months has been full sectorisation and the change of name from Provincial to Regional Railways . |