Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion , above all things , should be utterly free from any suspicion of such shame , but few are in this latter end of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | The actual selection and number of participating banks depends upon the loan 's size ( some are for several billion dollars ) and any special relationships between banks , e.g. consortium banks and clubs . |
| 3 | Intact proinsulin and 32–33 split proinsulin constitute a higher percentage of the total insulin and insulin precursor molecules in the plasma of fasting subjects with non-insulin dependent diabetes but this is of uncertain pathophysiological significance . |
| 4 | This is of key theoretical importance in many of Freud 's writings , both in the more sociological works and in many case-histories . |
| 5 | This is of considerable persuasive authority , but even that is not the issue before this court . |
| 6 | Her critics — and they will be many — will say all this is at best manufactured recollections , the distorted memories of a bitter and angry woman who had her fling with a priest , and has paid the price . |
| 7 | This is with this new company now ? |
| 8 | This is for two different kinds of reason . |
| 9 | This is for three main reasons : |
| 10 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 11 | This is worth twenty five quid . |
| 12 | This failure of latent inhibition to transfer from one context to another is of some theoretical significance , being uniquely predicted by Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) theory ( see below , p. 81 ) , and it has subsequently been sought and found in a variety of other training procedures ( e.g. taste aversion , Hall and Channell ( 1986 ) ; conditioned suppression , Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , Lovibond , Preston , and Mackintosh ( 1984 ) , Swartzentruber and Bouton ( 1986 ) ) . |
| 13 | Throughout the Roman Empire this was of three main types : the domus ( town house ) , the inula ( apartment block ) and the villa ( country house ) . |
| 14 | This was of immense psychological importance . |
| 15 | This was before all this publicity , like , but she still should have been sussed out . |
| 16 | The pairing family as such was of little organizational importance ; it was a temporary , private arrangement . |
| 17 | These are of two main kinds : algae known as diatoms , and flagellates , which have many of the qualities of single-celled animals . |
| 18 | There may be problems of a technical nature , but these are of little substantive consequence for sociological theory which is capable of being sustained , or not , by data culled from a variety of sources using a variety of methods . |
| 19 | There is a wealth of variety in the capitals in S. Mark 's ; most of these are of high Byzantine standard of carving and design ; there are over 500 individual capitals in the cathedral ( 185 ) . |
| 20 | The great majority of these are in lower socio-economic groups . |
| 21 | The most delicate of all are of shining translucent silica , concentric spheres transfixed by needles , gothic helmets , rococo belfries and spiked space capsules . |
| 22 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 23 | Knowing that all were of uniform original size permits calculation of that size from the density distribution observed . |
| 24 | And might not that be worth five thousand pounds ? ’ |
| 25 | That is for each incremental increase in loading , some springs will deflect less than others , or are ‘ stiffer ’ . |
| 26 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |
| 27 | Motion four O two , the C E C accepts the basic aim of four O two , that is of increasing Labour Party membership . |
| 28 | When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit , that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery . |
| 29 | Each is of iron-banded black-varnished wood , with copper fittings , and an ornate lock of fiendish complexity ( CR 50% ) . |
| 30 | ‘ From you , that 's worth any half-dozen testimonials . |