Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] is [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State financial provision for the disabled is very complex and patchy . |
| 2 | Mrs Elizabeth Allen , manager of Peterborough Community Service , insists the first principle is ‘ to improve care for patients , not cut costs ’ , though the potential for the latter is also important . |
| 3 | They apply to both county and voluntary aided schools although the extent of change for the latter is less marked as the governing body was already the official employer of most staff at the school . |
| 4 | ‘ Any extra accommodation for the homeless is very welcome , but it has to be measured against the scale of the problem . ’ |
| 5 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 6 | Again the link between the two is more complex than is suggested by the HEDT . |
| 7 | ‘ Indeed the working relationship between the two is as good now as it has ever been . ’ |
| 8 | All the Pain that Money Can Buy : the Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright ( Gollancz , £5.99 ) — The author 's explanation of why people devour books about the rich is appropriately cynical : ‘ We examine their bounteous lives on the modest condition that they suffer and come to a bad end . ’ |
| 9 | Care of the dying is very important . |
| 10 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |
| 11 | Dorothea 's distress at her distance from that other nation is thus in advance of her time , but the absence of scenes in Middlemarch showing her within the houses of the poor is quite appropriate to the period in which it is set . |
| 12 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 13 | Then , if production of the good is socially worthwhile , the revenues will exceed the cost of production . |
| 14 | The overall appearance of the Golden is very similar , from the rounded lower horn to the distinctly thinline body ( thin , that is , for a '50s archtop ) , along with bound f-holes and an ornate tailpiece . |
| 15 | Schemes are , however , being considered at the Bay of Fundy , which has 37 sites suitable for tidal power schemes , and the Severn in the UK , although the economic viability of the latter is still uncertain . |
| 16 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 17 | A literal translation of the first is scarcely interpretable : to make warm throats of something ; the second translates into something a little easier to construe : t o give one 's tongue to the cat . |
| 18 | As the performance of the two is relatively similar and inverted files are more widely used in their own right , most of this chapter deals with serial and inverted files . |
| 19 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 20 | Judgement of the former is particularly difficult . |
| 21 | More than that , the Donny of the '90s is sufficiently mature and ( deep voice ) masculine to cause Tom Jones sleepless nights worrying about his own sexuality . |
| 22 | [ 1 ] Here the problem is magnified hugely not only because there are no words but because the behavioural repertoire of the newborn is very limited . |
| 23 | The matrilineal types are rare , but he argues that the development potential ( via literacy ) of the bilineal is as strong . |
| 24 | Directing your critic towards the specific is most useful . |
| 25 | While siding with the poor is more rewarding because the poor represent less attractive pickings than the rich , they may be able to ‘ bargain' on the terms on which their support is obtained . |
| 26 | It was young men now , older than herself ; she liked them tough and full of talent ; she was not ambitious directly but found that life with the obscure is less interesting . |
| 27 | The use of subroutines to deal with the unpredictable is especially obvious in navigation . |
| 28 | A spokesman for the Derry Baha'is said : ‘ The fact that these documents have been brought into the open is very important . |
| 29 | Its much longer history before the 1880s is hardly visible . |
| 30 | The third major difference between BR and RENFE is that union density in the latter is very low by British standards , though high in the Spanish context where only an estimated 20 per cent of the wage-earning workforce were members of unions ( Rijnen 1985 : 235 ) . |