Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 2 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 3 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
| 4 | There may , however , be little or no change in the practices followed by individual schools . |
| 5 | They are free to rotate and the brakes work , so if for any reason a wheels-up arrival is made there should be little or no damage to the airframe . |
| 6 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 7 | But , as ambient water temperature falls , they will need food that is easily digestible so that , should a sudden cold snap occur , there will be little or no waste matter to decay in their gut . |
| 8 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 9 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 10 | Regarding the question of pole pieces , there should be little or no difference in performance between pickups ( of identical specification ) fitted with Allen head screws , compared to those fitted with slot head screws . |
| 11 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 12 | If the manager had no commitment , there would be little or no training aspect . |
| 13 | In the grouped update areas there will be little or no effect , as the hit rate is already high . |
| 14 | They have the talent to make an impact but the game has to be right and the circumstances have to be right to bring them in . |
| 15 | because I do n't speak to at all now and that ca n't be right and the reason I do n't is because I know the response I 'm gon na get , blank look |
| 16 | Particularly in the business of softer drugs , where the taxes can be lower and the restrictions less onerous , and where the first trial steps towards legalisation should take place , it would undermine the ‘ risk premium ’ that provides drug cartels with their profits . |
| 17 | In a whole variety of ways , the novel shows conventional Western modes of thought and behaviour to be absurd and an obstacle to that goal . |
| 18 | The subject of the letter will not be technical and the assignment will involve writing as a private individual to an organisation . |
| 19 | It follows , then , that in an exchange rate union , in contrast to a currency union , monetary integration may not be complete and the conditions for the creation of monetary union may not be satisfied because of the persistence of uncertainty regarding intra-union exchange rates . |
| 20 | Many variants will be possible and the level of detail will depend on the nature of the courses involved . |
| 21 | Yesterday 's statement said the funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held later . |
| 22 | Half the patients at the centre will be private and the others will be contracted from local health authorities . |
| 23 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 24 | She must be eight and a half . |
| 25 | Siemens Nixdorf 's biggest problem is that it is a combination of a company that was just about to go ex-growth with one that was already failing , so it very much needs any partner to be a firm seen to be strong and a winner : Hewlett-Packard and ICL presently best fit that profile . |
| 26 | here 's hoping your birthday will be unfrogettable and the frog hopping about on it . |
| 27 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 28 | Sometimes the relationship may be direct but the reference deleted . |
| 29 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 30 | Hence the bigram model is sufficiently non-sparse for full matrix storage to be sensible but the trigram matrix requires some means of sparse storage . |