Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 2 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 3 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 4 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 5 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 6 | He thought that the prairie grassland climax had been stable since the last ice age and could be restored at any time even after interference by humankind . |
| 7 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 8 | It is felt that tighter controls on mercury emissions are unnecessary because the existing emissions to the aquatic environment are not harmful to human health , ’ said Phil . ’ |
| 9 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 10 | In isolated word recognition only substitution errors of the meet/meat kind are possible since the beginning , ending , and duration of the word are known . |
| 11 | Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen . |
| 12 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 13 | We 've found it best to glue the wheels onto the axles with superglue and wait until they are dry before the pin is added . |
| 14 | I am upset because the big man gets his money first . |
| 15 | While it would have been preferable if the second defendant participated in the trial in Ohio , and that was a consideration to be taken into account on forum conveniens , that factor was insufficient to outweigh the other factors . |
| 16 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 18 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 19 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |
| 20 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 21 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 22 | The opinion in the Reparations Case would not have been possible if the classic rule relating to treaties and third parties had prevailed ; instead the Court considered the nature of the United Nations , the terms of its constitutive treaty , its composition , its functions , its rights and duties . |
| 23 | Obviously this session would not have been possible if the pupils had not spent the preceding ten weeks on a common project where they were fully occupied in collaborative work . |
| 24 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 25 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 26 | I am sorry if the Prime Minister takes it seriously that I oppose Maastricht . |
| 27 | I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman does not think that there is a vast amount of economic development going on in Lanarkshire as a result of Government initiatives . |
| 28 | I am sorry if the Minister finds it difficult to understand that , when I say ’ personally ’ in this respect , I mean that I am expressing my view and the view of my party . |
| 29 | But their solicitor says their chances are slim unless the law can be changed . |
| 30 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |