Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 2 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 3 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 4 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 5 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 6 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 8 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 9 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 10 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 11 | Brian , you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991 . |
| 12 | In their centenary year of nineteen eight eight they won the league and cup double , but since then honours have been in short supply . |
| 13 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 14 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 15 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 16 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 17 | Certain members of the Olympic Vibes team have been in serious disarray after one glimpse of this , and the guilty lightweights have been duly suspended from club duty . |
| 18 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd like to put on record how co-operative Copenhagen have been throughout this affair , ’ said the Linfield chairman . |
| 21 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 22 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 23 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 24 | The majority of studies have been in urban areas and have focused on the activities of building societies and finance institutions in the private sector ( Ford 1975 ; Boddy 1976 ; P. R. Williams 1976 , 1978 ; Short 1978 ) , and on the activities of housing managers in the public sector ( Gray 1976a , 1976b ; Paris and Lambert 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The context in which courts operate is of major importance , and for this reason , care should be taken not to exaggerate the link between sentencing practice and penal policy . |
| 26 | You just said that Englishmen prefer being with other men . |
| 27 | Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it . |
| 28 | From the end of the Permo-Carboniferous ice age 250 million years ago to about 20 million years ago , polar regions have been without permanent ice . |
| 29 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 30 | That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties . |