Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the studies of relationships between R&D and production in recent years have been of a qualitative and often anecdotal nature . |
| 2 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 3 | It is no longer , as it were , a global political programme , as it may be said to have been in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries . |
| 4 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 5 | of river water in the United Kingdom is judged to be of a good or very high standard is something of which I am enormously proud . |
| 6 | In effect , without the support of advertisers the British media would be in a poorer and much truncated form : advertising revenue accounts for some 40% of the popular press 's total revenue and some 70% of the qualities ' total revenue ; advertising revenue also finances the commercial television channels , countless commercial radio channels and a sizeable proportion of the new cable and satellite channels . |
| 7 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 8 | In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach , you will be in an old and vastly different world . |
| 9 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 10 | The green figure was equally likely to be on the left or right , and 50% of the probes matched in both cases . |
| 11 | Despite the fact that indigenous peoples are the majority of the population in some countries , they tend to be among the poorest and politically weakest sectors of society . |
| 12 | The first treatment lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours and costs £25 to £30 ; the follow-up sessions will be around an hour-an-a-half and slightly less expensive . |
| 13 | Goblin wolf riders are among the fastest and most mobile of all troops . |
| 14 | The tragedy was that thirty years ago these were amongst the brightest and most influential members of this country 's infrastructure : lawyers , biochemists , scientists and diplomats . |
| 15 | I then pointed out to him that I strongly deprecated a dissolution at this moment as I had implicit confidence in him and in the Conservative Party now in power , and I considered that as most countries in Europe , if not in the world , were in a chaotic and indeed dangerous state , it would be a pity if this country were to be plunged into the turmoil of a General Election on a question of domestic policy which will arouse all the old traditional bitterness of the hard fought battles between Protection and Free Trade : also that it was quite possible that his majority might be reduced , or that he might not get a majority at all . |
| 16 | I mean these local elections only took place what , erm four weeks after the general election , the Conservatives were on a high and conversely therefore you could say that what ? |
| 17 | Employees and their families were among the 100 or so people who joined a convoy of 25 four-wheel drive vehicles in order to hit the heights . |
| 18 | It further assumes that no clothing is purchased which is not absolutely necessary for health and assumes too that it is of the plainest and most economical description . ’ |
| 19 | The truth with which faith deals is of the highest and most ultimate kind , and faith itself is a ‘ leap ’ and a ‘ passion ’ , a leap into the truth that can only be grasped on the road of authentic commitment . |
| 20 | Unless you take the precaution described below , the only way to escape from this is with a soft or hard reset . |
| 21 | Certainly discretion is exercised by human beings , and those human beings are subject to all the , the frailties of humanity , and in many situations the policeman is in a tense but essentially human situation , where he has to make snap decisions on the spot . |
| 22 | This drawing is among the 700 or so exhibits , many never seen before in the West , in the exhibition ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ , at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 10 May . |
| 23 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 24 | The sociology of such developments is at a different and much broader level than that of cultural formations . |
| 25 | The higher shelves held plastic containers of the sort a do-it-yourself handiman would keep screws and nails in so the effect was of a dozen or so pigeonholes . |
| 26 | The mass effect was of a light but most brilliant ultramarine . |
| 27 | So I was in a safe and so was the man . |
| 28 | There were two lofts and the wedding was in the one and then the home brew and the stuff was kept in the other and the food . |
| 29 | So erm they would n't take him in the army but he , he was in the more or less he was , he was in the map making department . |
| 30 | This year — 1991 — results have been quite different and we have had a heavy crop , 70% of which was in the large or very large grades and the berries were full of juice and flavour . |