Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | It is in perfect order and as I am due to take early retirement I am looking forward to spending many hours in its arms . |
| 3 | The implication of all this is that large numbers of firms are unnecessary to achieve economic efficiency , and so it is equally possible for oligopolies to attain an efficient allocation of resources . |
| 4 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 5 | Women who are mutilated suffer short and long term health problems ranging from shock and haemorrhage to chronic infections of the uterus and major problems during childbirth . |
| 6 | Gary Pulsifer of Peter Owen informs me proudly that Owen authors Anne Cummin and Fiona Pitt-Kethley are due to appear naked on a Valentine 's Day broadcast on Channel 4 . |
| 7 | Over 16 million different colours are possible using eight-bit representation for the three additive primary colours since any value in the range 0–255 inclusive can be selected for any of the three memory banks . |
| 8 | Tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy the magic of sculpture , and theatres like Show of Hands encourage those who are deaf to enjoy live theatre like everyone else . |
| 9 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 10 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 11 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 12 | It has been possible to isolate neutral bis and tris ( 1,3,2,4-dithiadiazoles ) by reducing their corresponding salts ; the neutral products precipitating before they have time to rearrange . |
| 13 | The technology for these new industries was always backward by world standards , and it has never been possible to find secure markets outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 14 | Just as it has been possible to insert beneficial genes into crop plants , there is scope for eliminating , replacing or masking certain genes which have a deleterious effect on crop production . |
| 15 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 16 | ‘ I am sorry to have disappointed you . |
| 17 | So I welcome Neeme Jarvi 's interpretation of Mahler 's Fourth Symphony with the Royal Scottish Orchestra because it is the work of a conductor who has looked closely at the score and not been afraid to give full personal rein to what he found there . |
| 18 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 19 | They want a shorter working week , but are prepared to sit long and late while they are in London . |
| 20 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 21 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 22 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |
| 23 | They both have large planning departments and are prepared to take young people with no previous experience and train them . |
| 24 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 25 | The style is artificial , which need not be blameworthy ; but the question is how far readers , in their generation , are prepared to tolerate unabashed artifice . |
| 26 | The world is full of unlovely places and we should even be grateful that people are prepared to do important work in uncongenial surroundings like prisons , operating theatres , field hospitals , soap factories , coal-mines , and sewage farms . |
| 27 | Whatever the outcome , the Government 's willingness to continue pushing through the float during this Parliament shows how ministers are prepared to put political expediency before the interests of the industry . |
| 28 | What are needed are more Mario Cuomos , politicians who are prepared to put moral and practical argument above political expediency . |
| 29 | The government are prepared to consider alternative arrangements for controlling the budget of the C & AG , but the implications for the staff of the E & AD would need to be considered . |
| 30 | " Our preference is to resolve the [ Gulf ] crisis peacefully , " but " if the current steps fail to end it , we are prepared to consider additional ones consistent with the UN charter . " |