Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [conj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance of winning £75,000 , then the top prize on the football pools , was too small to be visible but in the Fifties this slender possibility mesmerized the nation . |
| 2 | An operating range of 250 miles at full speed was required and survivor accommodation had to be greater than in the Arun class , the current large All-weather lifeboat . |
| 3 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 4 | While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity . |
| 5 | Because the daily price movements in a straddle are likely to be lower than in the individual contracts , the initial margin is lower . |
| 6 | When someone dies , then , there is a vast range of practical decision-making to be done by people who , as we have said , are likely to be shocked and in a state of indecision . |
| 7 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 8 | For example , no neuron behaves like a RAM chip , and synapses do not appear to be symmetric as in a Boltzmann machine . |
| 9 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 10 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |