Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] and [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short our national standards are high and we can largely choose what they should be . |
| 2 | Few can afford the time and cost of building a new stone wall today , but the principles of dry stone walling , clearly outlined in Rainsford-Hannay 's book Dry Stone Walling , are straightforward and you can easily acquire enough skill to do effective repairs . |
| 3 | If we say , you see , that the function of the dream is to safeguard sleep , and to fulfil wishes , then it 's clear that in the real world not all wishes are fulfillable and it may well be that , that the latent thoughts , in some cases , is so alarming and so disturbing , that they can not be sufficiently disguised and will lead to a state of waking , and that waking proves of course that the dream has failed in its function of safeguarding sleep . |
| 4 | He can , of course , also make a payment into court , but the difficulties of calculating it are obvious and he would probably have to pay in more than the value of the claim for immediate damages to tempt the plaintiff . |
| 5 | If ρ is associative then , by definition , these two evaluations are equal and we can unambiguously denote the result by |
| 6 | The sulphonylureas increase plasma insulin levels in patients in whom they are effective and they may also enhance tissue sensitivity to insulin via a postreceptor effect ( Lockwood et al , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | And I thought : now my eyes are open and I can never close them again . |
| 8 | Some of the ideas discussed are difficult and it would probably not be obvious to readers new to this area that they are important . |
| 9 | Frequent legislative changes make it dangerous for advice workers to assume that any facts are unaltered and they must therefore always be encouraged to look things up afresh . |