Example sentences of "be [adj] [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His dogs looked as if they might be dangerous and so Coetzee reached for a tried and tested method for solving the problem — strychnine . |
| 5 | Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |