Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [vb base] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rewards of a more subtle kind thus have to be substituted . |
| 2 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 3 | In addition , practical methods for solving the matrix homogeneous Hilbert problem for particular non-colinear cases still need to be developed . |
| 4 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 6 | The typical social representation is said to have originated from an abstract , technical concept : ‘ Social representations generally come into being during transformations of this kind , whether by an intervention of the mass media or by the act of individuals ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 964 ) . |
| 7 | There were several weak points in this critique and perhaps at the very least it can be argued that foreign films with social themes always appear to be more realistic merely because the subject-matter and personnel are new . |
| 8 | Private space where people have some resources , is smart and well cared for , but the public spaces always seem to be mucky or breaking down . |
| 9 | ‘ All you so-called adults ever think about is sex . |
| 10 | As it is , not only is the average specification of cars sold in Britain the highest in Europe , but cars destined for the British market also tend to be bigger , with ‘ upper-medium-sized ’ cars disproportionately popular compared with elsewhere in Europe . |
| 11 | We have failed to grasp it and , although some of the eastern European countries now seem to be succeeding in the adaptation to a market economy , many others , including Russia , are likely to fail . |
| 12 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 13 | Without mourning on our part , can future generations ever hope to be blessed , and to bless the earth in their turn ? |
| 14 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 15 | Contemporary changes therefore need to be placed in the context of a continuous process of change in English rural society that has affected both the character and the structure of English villages throughout their history . |
| 16 | Once universal statements are involved in a significant way , the probabilities of the correctness of individual predictions again threaten to be zero . |
| 17 | How could anything so demonstrably inferior to the real thing ever pretend to be it , and with such potential ( or feared ) success that the parliament of an ‘ advanced western democracy ’ must legislate against it ? |
| 18 | Organizing around the politics of identity may well overlook the troubled , shifting role of the unconscious in the formation of subjectivities , but such exquisite philosophical niceties often have to be shelved when dealing with palpable , material discrimination . |
| 19 | Many of the arcuate lengths of contemporary coastlines now seem to be the edges of Triassic basins . |
| 20 | Our data also suggest that the team model of professional/paraprofessional staff deployment has high potential for maximizing the contribution of available personnel to the helping process and , if paraprofessional social service workers are to function at their best level , not only do they require appropriate training but professional workers also need to be trained to work with them . |
| 21 | Natural enemies then need to be introduced repeatedly , and special skills are needed to produce the ‘ product ’ to sell to farmers . |
| 22 | Statute-based rules thus tend to be both more powerful and also more rigid . |
| 23 | The curricula and finer details of National Board approved programmes still have to be fully considered and agreed . |
| 24 | Quantitative explanatory variables usually need to be reduced to the ordered categorical scale when the outcome variable is not quantitative ; if natural cut-points are not apparent ( such as 5 year age intervals ) , then quantiles can be used . |
| 25 | In either event , the employee will probably seek to argue that operational savings properly fall to be regarded as a benefit derived from the patent . |
| 26 | Large companies still seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to retain top management . |
| 27 | For example , two very similar copper-alloy statuettes both purport to be Etruscan of the sixth century BC ( fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 28 | This usually means little pruning and , potentially even more serious , since large problems frequently have to be terminated before they have been completely solved to avoid excessive computation time , frontier search may provide no solution at all . |
| 29 | Unbalanced stripes also have to be cut in one direction . |
| 30 | White attackers often claim to be members of organizations like this and to be acting on their behalf and , certainly , the National Front has contributed to an atmosphere in which some white people think it acceptable to assault blacks . |