Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ? |
| 13 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 14 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 15 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 16 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | all numbers must be essential and not garnish |
| 23 | This may be difficult if both gatekeepers and policy in the buying company aim to restrict such access . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |