Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 2 | The implication of the Reinberg group 's work is that rapidly rotating shifts , where no adjustment is made in terms of body rhythms , are preferable to longer cycled systems . |
| 3 | Application forms are preferable to c. v. s |
| 4 | Therapeutic interviews at this stage need not be long ; frequent , brief interviews ( e.g. 20–30 minutes ) are preferable to less frequent , but longer sessions . |
| 5 | The animal welfarist 's position , like the deep ecologist 's , is committed to permitting the sacrifice of some individuals for the greater good , and even the deep ecologists , notwithstanding their glorification of sport hunting ( I have in mind such legendary figures as Aldo Leopold , Ortega y Gasset and the poet Gary Snyder ) , might agree that more humane forms of hunting and trapping are preferable to more barbaric ones . |
| 6 | For if prices are rigid in the McCallum sense , the main results of the flexible-price models carry through : in particular , systematic attempts to stabilize real output , employment and other real variables will fail ; whereas if prices are sticky over long enough to permit policy adjustments by the government , the case for the type of stabilization policy advocated by Keynesian economists is restored even if expectations are rational . |
| 7 | As in the case of protein profiles , the DNAs of these recombinant viruses revealed no signs of instability , indicating that the triple and quadruple recombinant viruses are stable at least for several passages . |
| 8 | It is interesting that the anion-cation charge transfer is so marked in and and that they are stable in only a few inorganic solvents — eg liquid . |
| 9 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 10 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 11 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 12 | As was found for the human protein sequence , the highly charged domains of the protein are homologous to highly charged regions of other proteins , especially the transcriptional regulator nucleolin . |
| 13 | Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes , notably Waterloo-Bournemouth . |
| 14 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 15 | Over the passing years , time had been cruel to nearly everybody else . |
| 16 | But it 's been unused for more than two years and is now derelict . |
| 17 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 18 | Anaemia , raised erythrocyte sedimentation rates , and serum lactate dehydrogenase activities are common findings in high grade , but the analytical findings are normal in up to one third of the patients with low grade/mixed grade . |
| 19 | There are still idiosyncratic factors which are specific to both industries and firms . |
| 20 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 21 | The government for its part claimed that the Tigers had been guilty of over 30 breaches ; reports also indicated that they had used the opportunity to build new fortifications near government military bases in the north Jaffna area and near the Elephant Pass ( linking the Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of the country ) . |
| 22 | On the other hand it was a very swift descent from the heights of a collectorship to the rank of a common gauger for a man who had friends among the voting freeholders , and some of those friends at once moved to his aid , their resolve strengthened by Carrick 's complaint that while five supervisors were dismissed , the other four were quickly reinstated in their rank and only he remained reduced , while , according to Carrick , at least one of the lucky men had been guilty of far more serious omissions than himself . |
| 23 | It has been suggested above that , in view of the clear statement in the and the unsatisfactory nature of Mustakimzade 's argument , Turkish tradition has been guilty at least of inconsistency , if not of error , in doing so . |
| 24 | I mean they , and also a lot of people are shy to once as erm , someone 's put up someone else and it 's been seconded by two people on the committee they feel there 's no point in |
| 25 | The crucial cognitive effects of damage are due to both general intellectual impairment and specific reading retardation . |
| 26 | What such compounds ‘ taste ’ like to other animals is difficult to ascertain , but sometimes very different flavours are due to quite subtle chemical differences between compounds , the sweet taste of vanillin , for example , giving way to the hot and pungent zingerone when condensed with acetone and its double bond reduced , while pungency itself can be explained as to its relative strength by the replacement of particular groups in the molecule . |
| 27 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 28 | Allan argues that these class differences are due to very different ways of organizing friendship ( p. 49 ) : ‘ Briefly , whereas the working-class respondents tended to restrict interaction with their friends ( and with their other sociable companions ) to particular social contexts , the middle class respondents developed their friendships by explicitly removing them from the constraints imposed by specific settings . ’ |
| 29 | The bailiffs are due in just eleven days . |
| 30 | In the sphere of school work I believe that the high standards of work now being achieved in West Riding Schools are due in very large measure to Mr Rocke 's influence . |