Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the buildings can not be used for such purposes ‘ other uses are preferable to allowing the buildings to remain empty or grossly under-occupied ’ . |
| 2 | But both are things we must be prepared to do on occasion , and both are preferable to staying at home and watching a lot of odious rubbish on television . |
| 3 | The government has made it clear that redevelopment should , as far as possible , be in line with local planning policies but that where this is impossible new uses are preferable to leaving a large site derelict . |
| 4 | So , said Miss Lawley helpfully , will you now say you are sorry for introducing it ? |
| 5 | It is estimated that 24 per cent of Mediterranean beaches are unsuitable for swimming because of the sewage risk alone . |
| 6 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 7 | The oestrus cycle of the mouse is normally 4 days , and females are receptive to mating only at oestrus . |
| 8 | Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval . |
| 9 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 10 | You are right in thinking that such products are carbohydrate sources too . |
| 11 | But it is likely to prove empty in the end , even if the workers are right in thinking that , at this stage , they have nothing to lose and that a threat to withdraw their labour might help their union representatives wring a few more concessions from those in whose hands the firm 's fate now rests . |
| 12 | We are right in distinguishing between a sentence and its sense . |
| 13 | Nuclear disarmers are right in saying that a test ban would stop weapons builders trying out new and fancier designs . |
| 14 | However , where , as in the present case , there is an injunction in force , it seems to me that Mr. Langley and Mr. Philipson are right in saying that it is open to the court to consider the issue of validity , since , if the notice were indeed invalid , it could not override the injunction or give grounds for a variation . |
| 15 | Erm I presume that the s are right in saying that this this relates to the display account at at Newark . |
| 16 | Criticism of religious institutions , leadership and policies is rife , and religious people have on the whole been tardy in responding creatively to justified charges and pointing out the inappropriateness of false charges ; an approach of burying one 's head in the sand has been a characteristic of many religious people . |
| 17 | The headmaster responded in a similar way when asked if staff portrayed attitudes which are conducive for teaching in ‘ both a comprehensive and a multiracial school ’ . |
| 18 | Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? |
| 19 | Moodiness may be a result of sniffing , but many teenagers are moody without having tried solvents . |
| 20 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 21 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
| 22 | Nowadays I am obsessional about checking the gadget , particularly as I use it infrequently . |
| 23 | If not , ask colleagues you are friendly with to support you if you have to be alone with that person . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |
| 25 | And what should I do in another woman 's household , who have been used to managing my own ? |
| 26 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 27 | She had been used to teaching in a country where English was the second language . |
| 28 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 29 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 30 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |