Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newer recruits who joined the water authorities after reorganization of the water industry are predominantly young men in their twenties . |
| 2 | These are predominantly agricultural labourers in Bolivia 's main Quechua-speaking areas : Cochabamba , Potosi and Sucre . |
| 3 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 4 | The games that are supplied are rather poor examples of what should be possible , both the use of graphics and their actual ‘ playability ’ are hardly outstanding . |
| 5 | The metric equivalents are rather odd numbers at 305 or 380mm . |
| 6 | There are rather similar findings for writing . |
| 7 | They are rather common fossils from the Ordovician onwards , and in spite of their small size can be abundant enough to be important as rock-formers ( especially in limestones ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia have recently re-formed their agricultural regimes with such rigour that they now have what are effectively free markets in farming . |
| 9 | Some urban estates , partly as a result of allocation policies , are effectively one-class areas with few examples of success , clearly labelled by their architecture and appearance is distinct from the rest of society . |
| 10 | Computers are effectively large arrays of switches , which can be either ‘ on ’ or ‘ off . |
| 11 | Although a plateau will develop in the overall incidence of AIDS , there are strikingly different predictions for each exposure category . |
| 12 | ‘ Users who have been successfully running applications on systems which are now nearing the end of their life cycle , such as the NCR Tower , will now be able to right-size to UnixWare platforms . |
| 13 | Growth and other manoeuvrings motivated by no logic other than a defensive one are economically damaging by-products of an active market for control , causing a ‘ huge diversion of managerial effort into devising ways to reduce a vulnerability that did not grow out of managerial inefficiency ’ . |
| 14 | The end stage of the pathway is represented by CD4 + CD8 - TCR high+ or CD4 - CD8 + TCR high+ cells ( both are said to be in single positive , or SP , stages ) , which are mostly immediate precursors of major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) class II-restricted helper T cells and MHC class I-restricted cytotoxic T cells , respectively . |
| 15 | Over the past seven days , there have been most encouraging reports about Magic Ring , winner of four of his five outings as a two-year-old — although he was disqualified once . |
| 16 | Kogan also points out that bureaus are rarely composite elements with a single set of preferences : ‘ educational bureaucracy in Britain is not only multi-level but also a strongly divided group at any one level . |
| 17 | Pollutions are rarely dramatic events in themselves , but are often more striking in their consequences . |
| 18 | Movements of struggle are rarely spontaneous eruptions from below . |
| 19 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 20 | Even in split schools ( mainly in rural areas ) there are presumably close links between levels , and a high degree of curriculum continuity . |
| 21 | It is not difficult to make similar observations in the case of other adjectives : ( 8 ) a meteorological expert romantic novelists foreign policy a nuclear scientist animate nouns the royal hatmaker All these are wholly respectable phrases of English ( especially the last one ) but , in every case , a test using the sentence " This N is A " will either give a meaning to the adjective which is different from that in the original phrase , or simply produce an unacceptable result . |
| 22 | And there are little black dots on the ground ahead of it . |
| 23 | On the other hand , middle-out strategies are computationally explosive methods of search requiring highly tuned scoring methods and matching strategies to constrain the exploration of all the myriad combinations of possible hypotheses . |
| 24 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 25 | However , medical interventions have been relatively unsuccessful in decreasing the mortality of the diseases which are most common killers of middle-aged men , i.e. heart disease , strokes and other circulatory diseases . |
| 26 | A horse 's degree of willingness , cooperation in learning new things , agreeableness in doing what we ask of it , are most important traits in a horse 's temperament if we wish to enjoy riding it ; yet it is an aspect of the horse that is more overlooked than any other when someone is thinking of buying or breeding a horse . |
| 27 | Therefore , we are not implying that patients with classic Crohn 's disease are necessarily good candidates for reservoir surgery , nor does the recent experience of The Cleveland Clinic support such a view . |
| 28 | There are obviously wide differences in the provision of social amenities and social services . |
| 29 | There are obviously certain groups of people from whom there is a greater risk of catching a disease just as there are certain areas of the world where the prevalence of diseases is higher than others , but , wherever you are , it is the change of sexual partner that is the crucial risk-producing move . |
| 30 | There are obviously important facets of the local political system — such as power , patronage and personality — which can not be quantified and so must be left out of the ‘ explanation ’ . |