Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 2 | Although scrupulously fair in his writings on deaf history , neither favouring use of sign language or oralism , constantly giving credit where this was due to either method , Abraham Farrar was always regarded by oralists as the greatest triumph for the oral method of teaching the deaf , though Francis Maginn once told a B.D.D.A Congress that ‘ Oral ’ pupils could not be kept from signing . |
| 3 | Spanish and Portuguese dogwhelks are also generally small , but elsewhere enclave mean lengths of 20 mm or less are characteristic of exposed shores . |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State not realise that that conspicuous failure , which is clear to the people of Northern Ireland , is undermining the confidence of the great majority , and that that is pregnant with considerable consequences ? |
| 5 | I hope that that is acceptable to all hon. Members . |
| 6 | We know that neither is averse to some dirty work to achieve his aims . |
| 7 | Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) . |
| 8 | Notice that some are capable of non-interlaced operation which gives a virtually flicker free display but you also need a video card that can work with non-interlaced SVGA . |
| 9 | Although this is convenient for busy human owners , it is too much for the cat to eat at once , unless it is starving — which is rarely the case with well-loved family pets . |
| 10 | Although this is acceptable to most contemporary researchers — those interested in conducting spatial or multi-level analyses may be prevented from doing so but most researchers accept these limitations as an inevitable consequence of confidentiality requirements — it is not an optimum strategy for historical researchers who often do wish to identify individuals in order to link datasets . |
| 11 | They heard the river before they saw it , if seeing is the word ; and although this was daunting to most , sounding as though it was running high with the rain , the scouts assured that the noise was actually caused by the shallows of the ford area , where the water was more disturbed . |
| 12 | Although this was true for some respondents , most policemen and women in Easton periodically sought reassurance from the researcher about the purpose of the research , what was being written down about them , who would have access to the material , what the researchers ' politics , religion , allegiances , and so on were . |
| 13 | The process works ( sometimes ) because the immune system can cope with small numbers of viruses , although this was unknown in immunological terms at the time . |
| 14 | Never mind that this is contrary to all known linguistic experience . ’ |
| 15 | At once we can see that this is far to large to be stored as a single stitch pattern , as this number exceeds 16,000 . |
| 16 | The convention speaks of ‘ the freedom to send judicial documents , by postal channels , directly to persons abroad ’ , but makes it clear that this is subject to any objection by the state of destination . |
| 17 | Indeed , in the later chapters we will show that this is impractical for any relatively unconstrained speech recognition system . |
| 18 | And it is ‘ highly unlikely ’ that this is due to pure chance , it says . |
| 19 | I know that this is unlikely in many areas , but it 's best to play safe . |
| 20 | The War Machines section also includes chariots — note that this is different from some other armies where chariots may be included as part of their ordinary units . |
| 21 | The report emphasises that the parish ministry should be at the heart of the Church of Scotland in remote rural areas as elsewhere but it also expresses concern that this is dependent on adequate financial resources . |
| 22 | To understand what is happening here , we have to know that Ulster vernaculars have palatalization of initial [ k ] in certain prevocalic positions ( as in [ kjat , kja:r ] ‘ cat , car ’ ) , and furthermore that this is recessive in inner-city Belfast . |
| 23 | It can not follow , however , that this is true of all other differences . |
| 24 | Some women find that this is true of certain foods and drinks too . |
| 25 | We can be sure that this is true of most transnational capitalist classes . |
| 26 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 27 | The long-standing belief that this was applicable to all systems in Nature first had holes shot into it in recent years by Ilya Prigogine , the Belgian bio-chemist who received a Nobel Prize in 1977 for his expert marksmanship . |
| 28 | All this work was done in close cooperation with Hofmann , and there can be little doubt that this was beneficial to both parties . |
| 29 | In his comments ( published with the Report ) Mr Baker agreed that this was appropriate for 7 year olds , but proposed that for 11 year olds greater emphasis should be given to the key skills of reading and writing . |
| 30 | Various political analysts agreed that this was due to popular participation in the nationwide establishment of impartial electoral courts and clear rules for the running of elections . |