Example sentences of "[prep] this [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of this is due to malicious vandalism , but much more interference is probably caused by ignorance or thoughtlessness . |
| 2 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
| 3 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 4 | How any of this was relevant to twentieth-century America was precisely the question that Williams had raised when he jeered at ‘ parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc ’ being presented as ‘ the best in United States poetry ’ . |
| 5 | Between 1971 and 1987 the total labour force increased by 2.3 million , and almost the whole of this was attributable to increased employment among women . |