Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] be [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No criticism is allowed to touch this Mount Olympus of belief ; unquestioning faith and obedience is required to keep the believer within the fold of the faith . |
| 2 | He explained that for that patience and courage were needed . |
| 3 | What must always have been clear to perceptive teachers , and what is now being documented in some detail in research , is that racism and sexism are experienced in numerous different ways , depending upon the groups concerned and the educational context . |
| 4 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 5 | So it is better that variety and flexibility are maintained with freedom to respond to current needs and interests . |
| 6 | Speakers are handicapped when the main entrance doors are behind them and every time they open , the audience 's eyes swivel in that direction and attention is gone . |
| 7 | Thus hard work , education and moral tutelage are some of the guiding principles behind parent-child relationships , and much parental ingenuity and anxiety is expended in finding opportunities to introduce or reinforce these messages . |
| 8 | Parental support and co-operation are regarded as of paramount importance and to facilitate this the school is open until 9 p.m. on one evening each week during term , when parents meet heads of departments and/or class teachers according to a system of appointments . |
| 9 | With few exceptions , villages were tiny , shrinking communities with the irreducible minimum of the poorest people : at Hawling , where the population was well short of a hundred , only three of the twenty different men recorded in the combined muster and subsidy were assessed at less than £2 , and none out of eleven at tiny Batsford . |
| 10 | The emphasis of the courses is on speaking and oral comprehension and priority is given to communicating in Spanish . |
| 11 | The main tool of policy was to be public spending , but work in Whitehall on schemes for the regulation of private investment and consumption was to continue . |
| 12 | Rosenthal speculates that pepper and chocolate are classed as masculine because they are stronger flavours than salt and vanilla , while Chevrolet is feminine because of its sound ( it 's a longer word than Ford , has an open vowel at the end , connotes ‘ Frenchness ’ ) and knife is masculine because of the association with aggression . |
| 13 | The rapidity of change and development in and around partnerships demands that review and evaluation is embedded into the day to day action at all levels of the organisation . |
| 14 | He was scholarly , shrewd and literate ; but few people entirely trusted the ends to which that scholarship and shrewdness were applied . |
| 15 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 16 | Subsequently , the major concern perceived with the system of legal aid was that confusion and inefficiency were created by too many people having the ability to decide whether or not to grant help . |
| 17 | That The Smiths are the most popular group , in rough terms , at the precise time that rock 'n' roll is going through its worst phase for many years says something that is not complimentary to them . |
| 18 | The -5's release is pretty good , and will hold the young users attention for a reasonable time — parental guidance and encouragement is needed , in particular to fathom out the control keys ( see more on this later ) . |
| 19 | According to the Nepali Election Commission , 25 people were injured in election-day violence and voting was stopped in 21 rural stations after charges of " booth capturing " . |
| 20 | Suddenly , all this noise and confusion was silenced by a deep voice at the door . |
| 21 | There are certain physical problems yielding matrices for which this can be guaranteed ; but in general some trial and error is involved . |
| 22 | Most of the work of creating this field and pavilion was done voluntarily and funded mainly by money raised from various village functions . |
| 23 | Train fares and free board and lodging were offered , plus pocket money ‘ where necessary ’ , but this was never more than a pound a week . |
| 24 | 10.3 The appropriate line manager will ensure that adequate support and assistance are provided to the employee on returning to work for a specified ‘ settling in ’ period . |
| 25 | All the jeeps with their heavy machine-guns mounted fore and art were dropped by parachute . |
| 26 | Medieval ridge and furrow are overlain by a grid of more recent hedgerows . |
| 27 | In this way , the learner will gain confidence , and this goes a long way to promoting safe practice if at a later time adequate guidance and support are lacking . |
| 28 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 29 | In addition , social disruption and discontent are said to be fostered by temporary visitors , and ghost communities may be created out-of-season . |
| 30 | Consequently , when the surface of a liquid is extended , as by inflating a soap bubble , work is done against this tension and energy is stored in the new surface . |