Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | ‘ How high are fifty-five thousand feet , anyway ? ’ |
| 3 | There are spacious public rooms opening onto terraces and a small garden , a popular bar , pizzeria , á la carte restaurant , lounges , TV room and two lifts . |
| 4 | Even if your usual practice is to use handwritten notes there will be times when typed notes are preferable such as a difficult telephone conversation that you want on the record or a list of action points arising out of the meeting . |
| 5 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 6 | Of the western sites these are sorry this is also one of the furthest from Cambridge . |
| 7 | Henry Blake states that there are forty-seven basic verbal messages used by horses , although some seventeen of these are used in specific situations like a stallion courting a mare or a mare caring for her foal . |
| 8 | TODAY THERE ARE 4,200 LOCAL AMNESTY GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD . |
| 9 | There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre . |
| 10 | Yes , we are fortunate ; we have uncovered parking , and there are ample other parking facilities nearby . |
| 11 | Not a new situation , for there are ample historical parallels . |
| 12 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes they have been over- social , or captain of school — or Dr Faustus in the school play . |
| 14 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
| 15 | There are 2,300 harmless species of snakes and only 400 poisonous ones , but few people take the trouble to find out which is which . |
| 16 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 17 | Yet , Hurd 's suggestions implicitly assume that both states are stable political entities — which they are not . |
| 18 | There are drowsy old houses , sleepy alleys and squares , intimate cafes , and the air of medieval Switzerland envelopes you . |
| 19 | It is important to note that most of the authorities which have experienced the more punitive forms of grant limitation and all but one of the authorities which have experienced rate capping have been Labour controlled . |
| 20 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 21 | The important point is there 's been fifty eight regional speakers and eleven C E C and officers . |
| 22 | It must of been fifty one , June |
| 23 | Well those that are right next to the the ones growing up between the two bedrooms . |
| 24 | ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’ |
| 25 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 26 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 27 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 28 | According to the Driver Vehicle Licensing Centre in Swansea , there are 70,361 17-year-old men with full licences in Britain at the moment , and 39,417 women of the same age . |
| 29 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 30 | Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants . |