Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of one group of market participants who do not learn from experience and another ( entrepreneurial ) group who do , we can work with market participants who are alert to changing buying and selling possibilities . |
| 2 | Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer . |
| 3 | A repetition of the analysis just given shows that stellar cores of mass less than M(Chandrasekhar) are stable against further collapse and form neutron stars . |
| 4 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 5 | In terms of subject areas ethnic minority teachers are under-represented in modern language and feel marginalised as in some cases these posts are section 11 funded or concentrated in the areas of special needs . |
| 6 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 7 | By establishing the practice of job rotation workers become generalists so that their skills and experience are specific to particular firms and therefore less transferable . |
| 8 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 9 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 10 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 11 | Such behaviour may depend at least partly on the teacher 's skill in setting up situations which will elicit the best from each child : most people are shy in some situations and confident in others , and different people 's responses to the same situation may vary sharply . |
| 12 | Staff work together and are supportive of each other and have been involved in the decision-making process through the various ‘ teams ’ that make up the management of the school . |
| 13 | The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) . |
| 14 | Without being overcomplicated or analytical , many of our sensitivities are due to early life and subsequent experience . |
| 15 | Blistering of the felt , splits and cracks will occur in most felt roofs and are due to thermal movement and brittleness resulting from exposure to ultra-violet light and locked-in vapours . |
| 16 | Many cases of severe mental handicap are due to medical conditions and the causes are better understood , but there are still difficult areas of definition . |
| 17 | Accidents do occur , and too frequently , usually to climbers on its dangerous cliffs , but these are due to human frailty and misjudgments , not to venomous attacks by the Ben . |
| 18 | We are due for another service and it 's this month , the yearly service . |
| 19 | You do n't realise how many inflections are possible in one word and every important word the wrong inflection was used you know . |
| 20 | Some argue that high returns are possible in declining industries and that this is inconsistent with the harvest/divest strategies indicated in the BCG and McKinsey-GE matrices . |
| 21 | Others rely more heavily upon aerobic respiration ; they are dark in colour , because they are rich in oxygen-carrying myoglobin and mitochondria . |
| 22 | These islands warmed by the Gulf Stream , are rich in natural history and heritage . |
| 23 | They are rich in natural food and do not encourage over-breeding . |
| 24 | Clement Wilson Park , Barnett Demesne and Lagan Meadows are rich in seasonal colour and interest , with the last being managed primarily for wildlife and education . |
| 25 | The delays appear to have been due to administrative confusion and a lack of political will . |
| 26 | I am grateful to these sponsors and to my colleagues on the project , Alison Kelly , Barbara Smail and John Catton . |
| 27 | I am grateful for this invitation and would like to attend the launch . |
| 28 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 29 | We have all worked very hard to make sure that our district societies are representative of all members and I am sure that a breakdown of the composition of committees would prove this . |
| 30 | Class I molecules devoid of peptides are unstable under these conditions and lose the epitope recognized by W6/32 ( ref. 22 ) . |