Example sentences of "and the [adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The items fill one or two column inches and are meant to amuse ; the sexual innuendoes abound and the implicit humour is of the seaside postcard variety . |
| 2 | The distance is 975 light-years , and the present diameter is of the order of 2½ light-years . |
| 3 | The radiating ribs of a fan are of equal length and the bounding line is in the form of a semicircle . |
| 4 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 5 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 6 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
| 7 | Marxists and feminists are inclined to see this familiar fact as a form of exploitation , and the current fashion is to be particularly scornful of the honour that is supposed to accrue to the unpaid housewife . |
| 8 | All paragraph references in this and the following sections are to Working Together unless otherwise stated . |
| 9 | The extent to which a predator can dominate its prey must depend in part upon their relative abundance , and the following records are of interest in this context . |
| 10 | The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London . |
| 11 | They were hopelessly bitty , and the real mistake was on page 3 , with a hopeless attempt at humour in a picture story headlined THE POPE 'S HOROSCOPE . |
| 12 | When this complication does occur these days ( and the only reports are from the United States ) it may necessitate open-heart surgery for the replacement of the defective valve . |
| 13 | We need to break that dangerous little habit and the only way is by education . |
| 14 | It was finally agreed while still in Teesside that it would have to be done , and the only way was by explicit reference to the role of the Director , quoting the Articles of Government . |
| 15 | The image of the first quatrain is one of inanimacy where ‘ late the sweet birds sang ’ , but do so no more and the only movement is in the few leaves trembling ‘ against the cold . ’ |
| 16 | You could wear what you liked and the only bans were on people being boring or obnoxious . |
| 17 | It was walled like a fortress , and the only entrance was through a massive pair of wooden gates . |
| 18 | The unwritten constitution and the established Church are amongst the progeny of protest . |
| 19 | No , it 's no trouble , it 's what everyone does , and the cheap calls are after six anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation is moving from Quebec and the new headquarters are to be in Rome . |
| 21 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 22 | As a result , the demand curve shifts down and the new equilibrium is at E ’ where the true or full information valuation of an extra unit of the good equals its marginal social cost . |
| 23 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 24 | Well see that 's , that 's one route that we do business and the other route is through recommendations from , from either other people |
| 25 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 26 | Travel between Praslin and the other islands is by Air Seychelles ; the baggage allowance on these flights is only 5kg , so remember to take a small bag for use when island hopping . |
| 27 | Without some knowledge of research it 's very hard to keep your teaching fresh and lively and interesting and relevant , and the other factor is of course that research contributes to the long-term economic base of the country . |
| 28 | And the other thing is of course that Mrs is d doing like she 's taking the , the modern musicals and things that have been , you know , down in London , like Cats and Starlight Express and things and she 's trying to imitate those , well there 's no way she could ever get it as good so she 's better off doing something completely different . |
| 29 | An and the other thing is of course , when I first started going on it you ca n't read while you 're on it |
| 30 | The door itself is by Jan Sokol and the modern mosaic is after a cartoon by Karel Svolinský . |