Example sentences of "and the [noun] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it is that the no boundary condition causes disorder to increase and the conditions to be suitable for intelligent life only in the expanding phase . |
| 2 | As the wide range of qualities and skills quoted above illustrate , relevant experience can be obtained from almost any background ; personality is really of far more importance , together with a sense of empathy and the ability to be adaptable . |
| 3 | That is , one needs the literate ability to express oneself clearly ; but one also needs the right voice and the ability to be concise . |
| 4 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 5 | And , finally , according to their own motivational accounts it is more often the lifestyle and the hassle of being dependent on a drug which is illegal , expensive and difficult to obtain which users regard as ‘ the problem ’ rather than heroin itself . |
| 6 | I think I 'd miss my friends and the school atmosphere and the chance to be normal . ’ |
| 7 | I want the link to be built and the priorities to be right . |
| 8 | BRAINWAVES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING ASLEEP |
| 9 | It also allows the designer and the builder to be involved in the project only at those stages where they have a particular expertise . |
| 10 | They were whispering for no reason except that the dim light and the sense of being awake when everyone else was asleep suggested it . |
| 11 | In some areas , of course , the changes may have been more apparent than real and the necessity of being eligible for election may not have changed the actual personnel who continued to dominate rural politics . |
| 12 | There is the push for change and the pull of security , the longing for intimacy and the fear of being engulfed , the wish to be the same as others and the drive to be different . |
| 13 | If they 're negatively correlated , then you would expect the Z score for one to be positive and the other to be negative , or negative and positive . |
| 14 | It 's not a hard walk up the spur that leads to the summit , and the lust to be able to see far into the rough bounds of Knoydart hiding behind Sgurr Thuilm will motivate even the most indolent hiker . |
| 15 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 16 | Both made great sacrifices — the Buddha by consenting to live , and the Christ by being willing to die . |
| 17 | And the difference between being tough and responding rapidly to instruction and discipline and bullying is something that er you have to denote er i in this discussion tonight . |
| 18 | The threat to Harfleur was now eased , and the value of being able to defeat the enemy at sea was once again proved . |
| 19 | Similarly those coordinating such a project need to strike a balance between their own rules of procedure and the need to be free to exercise their discretion in the face of unforeseen circumstances . |
| 20 | This is due to the likelihood of the technical loss of material in proceeding through the protocol , the possibility of a weak hybridization signal from small weakly labelled sequences and the need to be able to score a statistically significant sample of silver grain counts . |
| 21 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 22 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 23 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 24 | Parker 's study of caring within marriage has wider significance for understanding of both the experience of caring and the realities of being disabled than its title might suggest . |
| 25 | Devised by Peter Thorogood , who reveals an interesting link between St Mary 's House at Bramber and The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 26 | And the key to being small was to use short radio waves . |
| 27 | The interesting fact was that Lugard united in his person , in an exceptionally dramatic and compulsive fashion , the two opposing but eternally co-existing currents of British imperial thought : the desire to be powerful , and the desire to be good . |
| 28 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in the basic tension within humanism — the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world — namely the conflict between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 29 | We explored various explanations of the present situation — such as Schumpeter 's analysis , the growth of government and the role of technology as an autonomous and primary force — and concluded that the root of the problem lay in a basic tension within humanism ( the prevailing philosophy today in the Western world ) namely between the desire to control and the desire to be free . |
| 30 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |