Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 2 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 3 | The second particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the targeting of cities and other locations not of a strictly military character . |
| 4 | The limited range of drugs which are effective against cancer have been discovered by uninterrupted research in laboratories , often on subjects which have had little very obvious relevance to cancer , but a lot to do with the chemistry of living cells . |
| 5 | First , the magnetic storage formats which are fundamental to computing have been demonstrated to be inherently unstable . |
| 6 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 7 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 8 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | An issue identifier which is unknown to LIFESPAN has been specified . |